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:

• Microsoft unveils “Recall,” a new Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do. – The AI-powered feature creates a searchable timeline of your computer activity by periodically taking screenshots, raising significant privacy and security concerns among experts.
• Scarlett Johansson says OpenAI copied her voice for ChatGPT after she declined their offer. – The actress issued a statement claiming the new “Sky” voice in GPT-4o is “eerily similar” to her own, forcing OpenAI to pause its use.
• Google’s new AI search results are providing bizarre and dangerous answers. – The “AI Overviews” feature has been widely mocked for generating incorrect and nonsensical suggestions, such as advising users to put glue on pizza and eat rocks.
• Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion to challenge OpenAI. – The new funding round values the AI startup at $24 billion and will be used to build advanced infrastructure and accelerate the development of its Grok model.
• OpenAI signs a major content deal with News Corp. – The multi-year partnership gives OpenAI access to content from publications like The Wall Street Journal and The Times for training its models and displaying in its products.
• Anthropic researchers discover a new way to “jailbreak” AI models. – The “many-shot jailbreaking” technique bypasses LLM safety features by overwhelming the model with a large number of fake examples within a single long prompt.
• Humane warns AI Pin owners to stop using its charging case due to fire risk. – The company identified a quality issue with the battery in the charge case that could pose a fire safety risk and is offering two months of free service as compensation.
• Perplexity launches “Pages,” a new AI tool for creating comprehensive articles. – The feature allows users to convert search queries or topics into visually structured, well-cited articles and reports, which can then be shared with a public link.
• Pika Labs adds AI-powered sound effects to its video generator. – Users can now add audio to their AI-generated videos by typing a description of the sound they want, such as “a car driving by” or “ocean waves.”
• Nvidia reports record $26 billion revenue and announces a 10-for-1 stock split. – The chipmaker’s earnings massively beat expectations, driven by the huge demand for its AI hardware from cloud providers and enterprises.
• ElevenLabs releases a new AI model for generating sound effects from text. – The new tool can create sound effects, short musical pieces, and soundscapes, expanding the company’s suite of generative audio tools.
• Law firm ends relationship with Harvey AI over alleged data misuse. – A major law firm is in a dispute with the legal AI startup after discovering Harvey was allegedly using its confidential data to build products for rival firms.
• Suno releases v3.5 of its AI music generation model. – The new version features improved audio quality, more style and genre options, and allows users to create two-minute-long songs.
• Mistral AI establishes a US subsidiary to drive global expansion. – The French AI leader has appointed a former Microsoft executive to lead its new US entity as it continues to compete with top American AI labs.
• Grok AI is now summarizing news directly on X. – X Premium subscribers can now see real-time, Grok-powered summaries of trending stories in the “For You” section of the Explore tab.
• Apple is reportedly finalizing a deal to bring OpenAI’s tech to iOS 18. – The partnership would integrate ChatGPT-like features into the iPhone’s next operating system, which is expected to be announced at WWDC.
• Researchers create the first generative AI worm that can steal data and spread between systems. – The “Morris II” worm can autonomously spread through generative AI services by embedding malicious prompts in text and images to exfiltrate data and propagate itself.
• AI agent startup Adept is in talks to raise over $350 million. – The company, which is building AI models that can automate software tasks, is reportedly discussing a new funding round with participation from Microsoft and others.
• Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, a powerful and compact image model. – The new 2-billion-parameter model offers photorealistic image generation and is small enough to run on standard consumer PCs and laptops.
• US, UK, and 14 other countries sign an agreement on AI safety. – Major tech companies have voluntarily committed to new international principles for safely developing and deploying advanced AI models.
• The US Senate releases a bipartisan roadmap calling for $32 billion in annual AI funding. – The policy framework outlines key priorities for AI regulation and investment to maintain US leadership in the field.
• YouTube is testing a new method of ad delivery that is harder to block. – The platform is experimenting with server-side ad injection, which stitches ads directly into the video stream, making them nearly impossible for ad blockers to stop.
• Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics launch a new open-source humanoid robot. – Reachy 2 is an advanced, open-source robotic arm and head platform designed for AI researchers to explore real-world interaction and learning.
• Meta is reportedly developing AI earbuds that may include cameras. – The project, codenamed “Camerabuds,” aims to create AI-powered earphones that could identify objects and provide information to the user.
• Midjourney updates its /describe command to support multiple images. – The new version of the feature allows users to blend the aesthetics and concepts of several images into a single, cohesive text prompt.
• Google DeepMind used an LLM to solve an unsolved problem in pure mathematics. – Researchers successfully guided an LLM to find a novel solution to a long-standing mathematical problem, demonstrating AI’s potential for new scientific discoveries.
• A study finds that AI summaries of scientific papers often contain fabricated facts. – An analysis of AI summarization tools revealed that they frequently “hallucinate” information not present in the original research, raising concerns about their reliability.
• Intel and other tech giants form a new group to challenge Nvidia’s dominance. – The UALink Promoter Group aims to create an open standard for connecting AI accelerator chips, providing an alternative to Nvidia’s proprietary NVLink technology.
• Spotify is testing AI-generated podcast summaries. – The feature is designed to give users a quick overview of a podcast episode’s content to help them decide whether to listen.
• Section launches a new AI course for business professionals. – Scott Galloway’s education platform has released a new “sprint” course aimed at helping professionals master generative AI tools and apply them strategically in their careers.

Trending AI Tools:

• Viggle – A free AI tool that turns any still image into a moving video with precise control over the motion.
• Google Vids – A new AI-powered video creation app for work within the Google Workspace suite that can create storyboards and generate video from documents.
• Grok-1.5 – The latest model from xAI with improved reasoning capabilities and a long context window of 128,000 tokens.
• AI Pin – A new screenless, wearable AI-powered device from Humane designed for on-the-go interactions and queries.
• DALL-E Editor in ChatGPT – An in-app editor that allows users to modify images generated by DALL-E directly within the ChatGPT interface by selecting areas and using text prompts.
• Magic – An AI coworker designed to help with software engineering tasks by understanding a company’s complete codebase.
• Gemini Code Assist – Google’s enterprise-grade AI coding assistant that offers code completion and generation with knowledge of a company’s private codebase.
• ElevenLabs AI Speech Classifier – A new tool, developed with OpenAI, to detect whether an audio clip was generated by AI.
• Project Gameface – An open-source, hands-free gaming mouse powered by head movement and facial gestures.
• Poe – An AI chat application that provides access to a wide variety of models, including the latest from Mistral.
• Devin – An autonomous AI software engineer that can handle entire development projects from a single prompt.
• Suno – An AI music generator that creates songs, including vocals, from simple text prompts.
• Pika – A video generation platform that can now add a wide variety of sound effects to your creations.
• HeyGen – A platform for creating AI avatar videos, now with the ability to customize your avatar’s outfit using a feature called “Avatar in new outfits”.
• Gemini 1.5 Pro – Google’s flagship multimodal model, now publicly available in preview with a massive 1 million token context window.
• Adobe Firefly – Adobe’s generative AI model, which can now be used to create immersive panoramic environments on the Apple Vision Pro.
• Meta Voicebox – Meta’s generative AI model for speech, now featuring a new watermarking technique to better identify its audio output as AI-generated.
• Vapi – An API for building, testing, and deploying realistic voice AI applications and conversational agents.
• Vertex AI Agent Builder – A new Google Cloud tool that helps developers easily build and deploy enterprise-ready generative AI agents.
• Lepton Search – A new customizable search engine API for developers with real-time indexing and semantic search capabilities.
• Vanna – An open-source Python framework that uses AI to generate accurate SQL queries from natural language questions.
• Mojo – A programming language specifically designed for AI developers that combines the usability of Python with the performance of C.
• OpenAI Jukebox – A neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles.

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