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:

• OpenAI launched GPT-4o – a new flagship model that accepts and generates combinations of text, audio, and image, while being much faster and available for free.
• Google showcased Project Astra at its I/O conference – its vision for a universal AI agent that can perceive and act in the real world, alongside over 100 other AI announcements.
• Google is rolling out “AI Overviews” to its main search results – providing AI-generated answers at the top of the page for users in the U.S.
• Google announced Veo and Imagen 3 – its most advanced text-to-video model and a new high-quality text-to-image model.
• Scarlett Johansson was “shocked and angered” by OpenAI’s new “Sky” voice – which sounds “eerily similar” to her own after she had previously declined an offer to voice the system.
• OpenAI’s co-founder and chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, announced his departure – followed shortly by Jan Leike, a key leader of the superalignment team.
• Anthropic hired Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger as its new Chief Product Officer – to oversee the company’s product strategy and development.
• Data-labeling company Scale AI raised $1 billion in funding – doubling its valuation to $13.8 billion, with investment from Amazon, Meta, and others.
• Apple is reportedly finalizing an agreement with OpenAI – to integrate ChatGPT features into iOS 18.
• Humane warned AI Pin owners to stop using the charging case – due to a fire risk from a third-party battery cell.
• Google announced Trillium, its 6th generation TPU – which offers a 4.7x improvement in compute performance per chip over the previous generation.
• OpenAI partnered with Stack Overflow – to integrate its content into ChatGPT and collaborate on new features for the developer community.
• Google released PaliGemma – its first open vision-language model, designed to be efficient and effective at a variety of image and captioning tasks.
• Microsoft’s annual Build conference is expected to feature major AI announcements – including a new consumer Surface AI PC and deeper integrations of OpenAI models into Windows.
• Reddit and OpenAI announced a partnership – giving OpenAI access to Reddit’s content for training models and bringing new AI features to the platform.
• The UK opened its first overseas AI Safety Institute office in San Francisco – to collaborate with US counterparts and leading AI companies on safety research.
• Google introduced LearnLM – a new family of models specifically fine-tuned for education and designed to make learning experiences more engaging and personalized.
• Meta is reportedly developing a new open-source AI model for code generation – to compete with offerings from OpenAI, Google, and others.
• Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI is reportedly close to securing a $6 billion funding round – at an $18 billion valuation from investors including Sequoia Capital.
• AI music startups Suno and Udio are in talks to raise significant funding – at high valuations.
• Pika Labs introduced a new sound effects feature – allowing users to generate audio for their AI-created videos by typing a description.
• Google’s NotebookLM was upgraded with Gemini 1.5 Pro – enabling it to answer questions about slide presentations, web URLs, and Google Docs.
• The New York Times is suing AI search engine Magris for copyright infringement – alleging it illegally reproduces its content without permission.
• Perplexity AI launched Pages – a new tool that can instantly create comprehensive, well-cited articles on any topic from a single prompt.
• ElevenLabs launched a new text-to-sound-effects API – allowing developers to integrate realistic, context-aware sound generation into their applications.
• Luma Labs has added an ‘Extend’ feature to its Dream Machine model – allowing users to lengthen AI-generated video clips by an additional five seconds.
• Character.AI is introducing custom AI voices – allowing users to create their own with just a 10-second audio sample.
• The Brave browser has integrated its Leo AI assistant into its iOS app – offering features like summarizing pages and answering questions directly within the mobile browser.
• Notion introduced new AI features – including an autofill property that can populate table entries and the ability to use voice commands.
• Klarna’s AI assistant now handles two-thirds of its customer service chats – equivalent to the work of 700 full-time agents.
• AI startup Adept has released Fuyu-Heavy – a new multimodal model that outperforms several established models on vision-language benchmarks.
• The U.S. Copyright Office is seeking public comments on training AI models – focusing on the legal gray area of using copyrighted data.
• Mistral AI is opening a U.S. subsidiary in San Francisco – led by a former Google DeepMind executive, to expand its global presence.
• SheetAble uses AI to convert any song into playable sheet music – complete with chords and lyrics.
• YouTube is experimenting with an AI tool to organize comments – sorting large comment sections into easy-to-read themes.
• The U.S. SEC is investigating an AI-powered ETF – for potentially making misleading statements about its use of artificial intelligence.
• An opinion piece argues the real barrier to AI progress is the strain on power grids – not a shortage of GPUs.
• Analysis suggests AI is creating new opportunities in outsourcing – potentially displacing some jobs but also creating new efficiencies for smaller businesses.
• A new Andreessen Horowitz report provides a comprehensive overview of the generative AI landscape – covering infrastructure, models, and applications.

Trending AI Tools:

• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s flagship AI chatbot, now powered by the faster and more capable GPT-4o model.
• Character.ai – An AI platform that allows users to create and interact with a wide variety of AI characters.
• Viggle – An AI tool for creating consistent character videos by animating a static character image with a motion video.
• Dubbing Studio by ElevenLabs – An AI-powered tool for translating and dubbing video content into different languages while preserving the original speaker’s voice.
• Suno – An AI music generator that creates original songs, complete with vocals and instrumentation, from a simple text prompt.
• Luma Dream Machine – A text-to-video model from Luma Labs, praised for its high-quality and coherent video generation.
• Krea AI – A suite of creative AI tools that offers features like real-time image generation, upscaling, and video creation.
• Midjourney – A powerful AI image generator known for creating highly detailed and artistic visuals from text prompts.
• Opus Clip – An AI video editing tool that automatically turns long videos into short, viral clips.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform for creating professional videos with AI avatars and voice cloning.
• Pika – An AI video generator that can create and edit videos from text and images.
• MusicFX – Google’s AI tool for creating music loops and soundtracks from text descriptions.
• Fireflies.ai – An AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes your voice conversations.
• Captions – An AI-powered app that automates video editing tasks like adding subtitles, teleprompters, and eye contact correction.
• Durable – An AI website builder that generates a complete website with copy and images in seconds.
• Grok – X’s (formerly Twitter) AI chatbot, known for its real-time access to information and witty personality.
• Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant – An AI assistant within Adobe Acrobat that can summarize PDFs and answer questions about their content.
• Notion – An all-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, and team collaboration, now with integrated AI features.
• Poe – An app that offers access to a variety of AI models and chatbots from different developers in one place.
• Galileo AI – An AI tool that generates editable UI designs for apps and websites from a simple text description.
• Uizard – An AI-powered design tool for creating wireframes, mockups, and prototypes for apps and websites from text prompts.
• ClickUp – A project management platform that uses AI to automate tasks, generate updates, and streamline workflows.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A platform that simplifies the process of fine-tuning AI models for specific tasks without writing code.

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