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 announces ‘Apple Intelligence’ for its devices – Apple unveiled “Apple Intelligence,” its new personal AI system deeply integrated into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, focusing on privacy with on-device processing.
• Apple partners with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to its platforms – Apple is integrating OpenAI’s ChatGPT into Siri and system-wide Writing Tools, allowing users to access GPT-4o’s capabilities without an account.
• Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices over OpenAI integration – Elon Musk stated he would ban Apple devices from his companies if Apple integrates OpenAI at the operating system level, calling it an “unacceptable security violation.”
• Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B model details leak online – Details have leaked about Meta’s upcoming Llama 3.1, a massive 405-billion-parameter model that could be a powerful open-source competitor to GPT-4o.
• Perplexity launches Pages to turn prompts into articles – AI search engine Perplexity introduced a new feature called Pages that allows users to generate comprehensive, well-structured, and visually appealing articles on any topic from a single prompt.
• Mistral AI launches new models and US developer platform – Mistral AI announced the launch of its US-based developer platform, ‘Le Chat’, along with a new flagship model (Mistral Large 2) and a cost-effective model (Mistral Small).
• Inflection-2.5 model is now available via API – Inflection has made its Inflection-2.5 model, which reportedly offers GPT-4 level intelligence with much greater efficiency, available to all developers and businesses through an API on Microsoft Azure.
• Stanford’s influential AI team disbands as leaders depart – The prominent AI research team at Stanford University behind the “foundation models” concept has dissolved after its leaders left to create their own companies and a new AI institute.
• Air Canada forced to honor refund policy invented by its chatbot – A Canadian tribunal ordered Air Canada to provide a partial refund to a customer after its support chatbot invented a bereavement travel policy that the airline refused to honor.
• Character.AI in talks for new funding at over $6B valuation – AI chatbot startup Character.AI is reportedly in discussions with investors, including Google, for a new funding round that could value the company at over $6 billion.
• Nvidia in talks to acquire AI startup Deci for $700M – Nvidia is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Israeli AI software startup Deci, which helps developers build and optimize AI models, for approximately $700 million.
• Stability AI appoints new permanent CEO – Stability AI has officially named Prem Akkaraju, former CEO of visual effects company Weta Digital, as its new permanent chief executive officer.
• Sakana AI uses evolution to merge and create new models – Japanese AI startup Sakana AI is pioneering a new method that uses evolutionary algorithms to automatically combine existing open-source models, creating new, more capable models without traditional training.
• Anthropic finds AI models can develop ‘secret’ internal languages – Researchers at Anthropic discovered that their Claude Sonnet model develops internal representations for specific concepts, such as a “Golden Gate Bridge neuron,” which behave like a private language.
• Raspberry Pi shares surge 40% in London IPO – Shares of Raspberry Pi, the maker of low-cost single-board computers popular for AI projects, jumped as much as 40% in their stock market debut in London.
• Microsoft and LinkedIn offer free AI training courses – Microsoft and LinkedIn have launched a new AI Skills Initiative, which includes five free professional certificate courses on generative AI to help workers advance their careers.
• Google’s AI helps blind runner complete a 5K solo – A new AI-powered system from Google called Project Guideline successfully guided a blind runner through a 5K race independently by providing real-time audio cues through a headset.
• Study finds medical AI chatbots can be racially biased – A new study revealed that large language models from OpenAI and Google often provide different medical advice for Black and white patients based on their vernacular, sometimes leading to less accurate recommendations for Black patients.
• Mozilla study warns ‘AI girlfriend’ chatbots are a privacy nightmare – A new report from the Mozilla Foundation found that popular AI “girlfriend” chatbots have alarming privacy policies, collecting vast amounts of personal user data.
• Abridge’s medical AI scribe lands deal with major hospital system – Abridge, an AI startup that automates medical documentation, has signed a deal to deploy its technology across the University of Kansas Health System, covering 4,000 clinicians.
• Hume AI launches its Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) – Hume AI has released the first-ever Empathic Voice Interface (EVI), an API that allows developers to build applications with emotionally intelligent, conversational AI that understands tone of voice.
• Section acquires static code analysis platform Codiga – AI software developer Section has acquired Codiga, a platform for static code analysis, to enhance its AI-powered code assistance tools for developers.
• Twelve Labs raises $10M for AI video understanding – Twelve Labs, a startup specializing in building multimodal AI for video understanding, raised an additional $10 million in strategic funding from investors including Nvidia and Dell.
• Ethical AI startup Saidot raises $3.1M – Saidot, a Finnish startup building an AI governance and alignment platform, has raised €2.9 million ($3.1M) to help organizations safely and transparently adopt AI.
• South Korea to launch $211M fund for AI chip startups – The state-run Korea Development Bank announced plans to create a 290 billion won ($211 million) fund to support the growth of domestic fabless AI chip companies.
• AI could add over $1.25 trillion to the UK economy by 2035 – A report from the AI council, AIGroup.org.uk, suggests that the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence could boost the UK’s economy by over £1 trillion ($1.25T) by 2035.
• NYT interactive explores how AI could impact various jobs – A New York Times feature simulates how AI could automate tasks for jobs like illustrators and financial analysts, exploring the potential displacement and evolution of different careers.
• Rumors circulate about imminent release of Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet – Speculation is growing on social media that Anthropic is preparing to release Claude 3.5 Sonnet, expected to be a faster and more efficient version of its popular model.

Trending AI Tools:

• Udio – An AI music generation tool that creates full-length songs with vocals from text prompts.
• GPT-4o – OpenAI’s new flagship multimodal model that natively accepts text, audio, and image as input to generate any combination of those formats in real-time.
• Project Astra – Google’s vision for a universal AI assistant that can see, hear, and understand the world in real-time through a device’s camera.
• Veo – Google’s most capable text-to-video generation model, designed to create high-quality, 1080p videos over a minute long in a wide range of cinematic styles.
• Imagen 3 – Google’s latest text-to-image model that offers incredible detail, photorealism, and significantly improved text rendering capabilities.
• Perplexity Pages – A feature within Perplexity that turns search queries into comprehensive, well-structured articles, reports, or guides complete with citations.
• Music AI Sandbox – A suite of AI-powered music creation tools from Google’s AI lab designed to open up new creative possibilities for artists.
• Gems – Customizable versions of the Gemini model that can be tailored to act as specific expert assistants for different tasks.
• LearnLM – A new family of models from Google fine-tuned for learning, designed to make content more engaging and personal for students.
• Nvidia Nemotron-4 340B – A new family of open-source models from Nvidia designed to help developers generate synthetic data for training other AI models.
• Suno – An AI music and song generator that creates original songs with lyrics and vocals from a simple text prompt.
• Trillium – Google’s 6th generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) designed for high-performance, efficient AI model training.
• Seraphim-1B – A 1-billion parameter open-source multimodal model from Tencent designed to understand screen elements and navigate user interfaces.
• AlphaFold 3 – A revolutionary model from Google DeepMind that predicts the structure and interactions of proteins, DNA, RNA, and other molecules.
• Mind-Video – A model that reconstructs high-quality video clips by translating fMRI brain recordings into visual representations.
• The Rundown’s AI Story Generator – A free AI tool for creating personalized illustrated children’s stories.
• Viggle – An AI video generation tool that allows you to animate static characters with motion from a reference video, maintaining character consistency.
• Magnific – An AI-powered image upscaler and enhancer that can add details and increase the resolution of your images.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator particularly known for its ability to reliably render coherent text and typography within images.
• Recraft – A generative AI design tool that allows users to create and edit vector art, icons, illustrations, and 3D graphics with a consistent brand style.
• Tango – A browser extension that automatically creates step-by-step how-to guides with screenshots while you work.
• Fathom – An AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes your meetings so you can focus on the conversation.
• ElevenLabs – An advanced AI voice platform for generating realistic text-to-speech and cloning voices in multiple languages.
• Murf.ai – A versatile AI voice generator that enables users to create studio-quality voiceovers for videos and presentations.
• Firefly – Adobe’s family of creative generative AI models that can generate images, vectors, and text effects from prompts directly within Adobe apps.
• Guidde – A tool that helps create video documentation and how-to guides by capturing workflows and adding AI-generated voiceovers.
• Storylane – A platform that allows you to build and share interactive, no-code product demos for sales and marketing teams.
• Taskade – An AI-powered productivity platform that combines task lists, notes, and mind maps into a unified workspace.
• Vidyard – A video platform for sales and marketing that includes an AI script generator to help create video content faster.
• Windy – A weather forecasting service that utilizes AI models to provide highly accurate and detailed weather visualizations.
• Supertools – A searchable database of top AI tools and resources for various tasks.
• Llama 3.1 – The upcoming iteration of Meta’s open-source large language model, which is expected to be released in July.

Sponsors:

• Brilliant – An online platform for learning math, data, and computer science through interactive problem-solving.
• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design studio that builds AI products for clients.
• Incogni – A service that automatically contacts data brokers to remove your personal information from their databases.
• Guidde – A generative AI platform that helps create video documentation and how-to guides.
• Masterworks – An investment platform that allows you to purchase fractional shares in blue-chip artwork.
• Lemon.io – A marketplace for hiring vetted tech talent, including fractional CTOs.
• Omigo – A company that sells bidet toilet seats and attachments.
• AssemblyAI – An API platform that provides AI models for transcribing and understanding audio and video data.