Note from Matt: Below is an AI-generated list of AI news and tools. Our bot scours the internet daily to find AI news. Because it’s AI, it often finds older news or non-AI news and adds it to the mix. It also seems to break links often. We’re constantly working on improving the automation but this should, for the most part, ensure no AI news ever gets missed

The Latest AI News:

• Apple unveils ‘Apple Intelligence’ and OpenAI partnership for iOS 18 – Apple announced its new personal intelligence system, “Apple Intelligence,” which will be integrated into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, and includes a partnership to bring ChatGPT to its devices.
• Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices over OpenAI integration – Following Apple’s announcement of its ChatGPT integration, Elon Musk stated he would ban Apple devices from his companies, citing unacceptable security risks.
• Mistral AI raises $640 million at a $6.2 billion valuation – The Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI has secured $640 million in a Series B funding round, tripling its valuation in just seven months.
• Luma Labs launches Dream Machine, a high-quality text-to-video model – Luma Labs has released Dream Machine, a publicly available AI model for creating high-quality, realistic videos from text prompts and images.
• Perplexity launches Pages to turn search queries into articles – AI search engine Perplexity has introduced a new feature called Pages, which generates comprehensive, well-structured articles and reports from a single user prompt.
• Former OpenAI board members explain why they fired Sam Altman – In an op-ed, Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley stated their decision was based on a long-term erosion of trust with Altman, not a single disagreement over AI safety.
• SEC Chair warns AI could trigger a financial crisis – SEC Chairman Gary Gensler expressed concern that the widespread adoption of a few dominant AI models in finance could create herd-like behavior and systemic risk, potentially leading to market instability.
• OpenAI hires new CFO and Chief Product Officer – OpenAI has appointed former Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar as its first Chief Financial Officer and former Planet Labs and Instagram executive Kevin Weil as its new Chief Product Officer.
• YouTube tests conversational AI to answer questions about videos – YouTube is experimenting with a new feature for Premium subscribers that allows them to “ask” questions to get summaries and information about the video they are watching.
• Raspberry Pi shares surge 40% in London IPO – The maker of low-cost single-board computers, popular for hobbyist and AI projects, saw its shares soar in its London Stock Exchange debut.
• Google DeepMind proposes a new way to measure AI intelligence – Researchers suggest that true AI intelligence should be measured by the efficiency of skill acquisition rather than just performance on specific tasks.
• The New York Times quizzes readers on spotting AI-generated political ads – An interactive feature highlights the increasing difficulty of distinguishing between real and AI-generated content in political campaigns.
• MIT Technology Review reports AI propaganda is a growing threat – An investigation reveals how both state-affiliated and independent actors are using generative AI to create and disseminate sophisticated propaganda at scale.
• UK AI Safety Institute opens first international office in San Francisco – The UK’s government-backed AI safety body is establishing a presence in San Francisco to collaborate more closely with top US AI companies and research institutions.
• AI could help predict side effects from drug combinations – Researchers have developed an AI method that accurately predicts which side effects a specific patient is likely to experience from a combination of drugs.
• A machine learning model can help identify people at risk of suicide – Researchers developed an AI tool that analyzes electronic health records to identify U.S. veterans at high risk of suicide more accurately than previous methods.
• Inflection makes its Inflection-2.5 model available via API – The AI model that powers the conversational Pi assistant is now available for developers and enterprises to build applications through an API.
• CoreWeave to build $2.2 billion data center in Europe – AI cloud computing provider CoreWeave announced a major investment to build a new data center campus in continental Europe to meet growing demand for AI workloads.
• Snowflake launches Polaris Catalog for Apache Iceberg – Snowflake has released an open-source catalog for the Apache Iceberg data format, aiming to provide greater interoperability and choice for enterprises.
• Suno releases v3.5 of its AI music generator – The latest version of the AI music creation tool features improved audio quality, more style options, and an extended song length of up to four minutes.
• Adobe integrates Firefly AI into Lightroom with ‘Generative Remove’ – Lightroom now features an AI-powered tool that allows users to seamlessly remove unwanted objects and distractions from their photos.
• Voiceflow is a platform for building custom, production-ready AI chatbots – The conversational AI platform enables users to design, test, and launch advanced AI agents and chatbots for customer support and other applications.
• Whimsical offers AI-powered mind maps to generate and organize ideas – The visual collaboration tool uses AI to help users brainstorm, expand on topics, and structure their thoughts in mind maps.
• SECRp AI launches Embed API for RAG applications – The new Embed API from SECRp AI provides developers with a tool for building retrieval-augmented generation systems.

Trending AI Tools:

• GPT-4o – OpenAI’s new flagship model that accepts any combination of text, audio, and image as input and generates multimodal output.
• Project Astra – Google’s vision for a universal, real-time, multimodal AI assistant that can understand and respond to the world around it.
• Veo – Google’s most advanced text-to-video model, designed to generate high-quality, 1080p resolution videos in a wide range of cinematic styles.
• Imagen 3 – Google’s latest high-quality text-to-image model with improved detail, realism, and an ability to render text accurately.
• Gemini 1.5 Flash – A new lightweight Gemini model optimized for high-volume, high-frequency tasks where speed and efficiency are critical.
• AI Overviews in Google Search – A Google Search feature that provides AI-powered answers and summaries directly at the top of the results page.
• Trillium – Google’s 6th generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) designed for high-performance and efficient AI model training.
• StoryDiffusion – An open-source method for generating consistent images and videos for visual storytelling.
• Krea – An AI tool that offers real-time image and video generation and enhancement capabilities.
• ElevenLabs – A voice AI platform that provides realistic text-to-speech and voice cloning capabilities.
• Luma Labs Dream Machine – A new text-to-video model for creating high-quality, realistic video clips from text descriptions.
• Suno – An AI music creation tool that generates songs with vocals and instrumentation from a simple text prompt.
• Runway – A comprehensive AI video editing and generation platform for creators.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for creating high-quality, artistic, and stylized images from text prompts.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s conversational AI model for answering questions, writing text, and performing a wide range of language-based tasks.
• Claude – A family of large language models from Anthropic, known for its strong performance on complex reasoning and long context tasks.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered search engine that provides direct, cited answers to questions by synthesizing information from the web.
• HeyGen – A video platform that uses AI to create realistic talking avatars for business and personal use.
• VLOGGER – A research project and method for generating controllable videos of a person speaking and gesturing from a single image.
• OpenVoice V2 – An open-source instant voice cloning model that replicates any voice with a short audio sample.
• Cognito – A tool that automates browser-based workflows and tasks by understanding natural language instructions.
• ScreenAgent – A vision-language model designed for GUI automation that can follow user instructions to operate applications.
• MusicFX – A Google AI experiment for generating musical loops, tracks, and sound effects from text descriptions.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool for quickly creating engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from text prompts.
• Durable – An AI-powered website builder that can generate a complete website with copy and images in seconds.
• Synthesia – An AI video creation platform that allows users to produce studio-quality videos with AI avatars and voiceovers without cameras or microphones.
• AI Story Generate – A tool to generate illustrated visual stories in a variety of artistic styles.
• Supermeme.ai – An AI-powered meme generator that can create original memes from text input.
• Cala – An AI-powered platform that helps automate the design and supply chain process for fashion brands.
• Chigma – An open-source tool that converts Figma designs into functional React code using AI.
• Flowise – An open-source, low-code tool for developers to visually build and customize LLM-powered applications.
• MindOS – A platform for creating, training, and deploying autonomous AI agents for various tasks.
• Taskade – An AI-powered productivity platform that combines tasks, notes, and chat in one unified workspace for teams.
• Rationale – An AI-powered decision-making tool that helps users weigh pros and cons and analyze options.
• Ploom – A new method for fine-tuning text-to-image diffusion models from a single reference image in under a minute.
• Mindjoy – An AI-powered platform that helps teachers create engaging lesson plans and educational materials.
• Seraphim – A 7B parameter vision language model specialized for understanding complex documents like charts and tables.
• Parea AI – A developer platform for debugging, testing, and monitoring large language model applications.
• Replicate – A platform that allows developers to run and fine-tune open-source AI models with a cloud API.
• LangGraph – A library from LangChain for building stateful, multi-actor AI applications like agents.

Sponsors:

• NetSuite by Oracle – NetSuite provides a comprehensive cloud business software suite for managing financials, inventory, HR, and e-commerce in one place.
• Modal – A cloud platform that helps developers run generative AI models and large-scale batch jobs on-demand without managing infrastructure.
• HubSpot – Offers a free e-book to help businesses understand and use AI effectively in marketing, sales, and service.
• Masterworks – A platform that allows individuals to invest in fractional shares of multi-million dollar paintings from artists like Banksy and Picasso.
• MobiDev – A software development company that helps businesses implement AI and machine learning into their products.
• Vercel – A frontend cloud platform hosting a conference, Vercel Ship, for developers to learn about advancements in AI-powered user experiences.
• Doppler – A secret management platform that helps developers securely manage API keys and app configuration throughout the development lifecycle.