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:

• Google’s AI Overviews are giving bizarre and dangerous answers – Google’s new AI Overviews feature is under fire for providing bizarre and inaccurate answers, such as suggesting users eat rocks or add glue to pizza.
• OpenAI forms new safety committee as previous team was disbanded – OpenAI has formed a new Safety and Security Committee led by CEO Sam Altman and board members to oversee its AI models’ safety protocols, shortly after dissolving its previous “superalignment” team.
• PwC strikes deal to become OpenAI’s largest enterprise customer and first reseller – PwC has become OpenAI’s first resale partner and its largest enterprise customer, aiming to provide ChatGPT Enterprise to its 100,000 employees in the US and UK.
• Microsoft’s new Recall AI feature will screenshot everything you do on your PC – Microsoft unveiled its new Copilot+ PCs, featuring an AI-powered “Recall” function that screenshots and logs all user activity to create a searchable history, sparking major privacy debates.
• OpenAI pauses new ChatGPT voice after Scarlett Johansson says it sounds ‘eerily similar’ to her – OpenAI paused one of its new GPT-4o voices after Scarlett Johansson claimed it sounded “eerily similar” to hers, despite her having previously declined an offer to voice the system.
• Perplexity launches Pages to turn search queries into shareable articles – AI search engine Perplexity has launched a new feature called Pages, which automatically generates comprehensive, well-structured articles on any topic from a user’s prompt.
• Hume launches ‘empathic’ AI voice assistant you can try now – AI startup Hume has launched the first conversational AI with emotional intelligence, capable of understanding the user’s tone of voice and responding with appropriate empathy.
• Ampere unveils 256-core chip in quest to challenge Nvidia – Multiple companies, including Ampere, Cerebras, and Groq, announced new AI chips and hardware systems designed to challenge Nvidia’s market dominance in AI computing.
• Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion to take on OpenAI – Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has raised $6 billion in a new funding round to build out its infrastructure and accelerate product development in its race against competitors like OpenAI.
• Mistral AI releases Codestral, a new generative AI model for code – Mistral has launched Codestral, a new 22B parameter open-weight model specifically designed to assist with coding tasks across more than 80 programming languages.
• DeepMind AI trained to control nuclear fusion plasma – Google DeepMind is using reinforcement learning to control the super-hot plasma inside a nuclear fusion reactor, a significant step toward achieving clean energy.
• Adept releases Fuyu-Heavy, a new multimodal model for AI agents – AI lab Adept has open-sourced Fuyu-Heavy, a new multimodal model designed to power AI agents by understanding screen UIs and executing complex actions.
• ElevenLabs launches a new AI sound effects generator – AI voice company ElevenLabs has released a new tool that generates sound effects, short instrumental pieces, and foley from text descriptions.
• AI boosts worker productivity by 40%, Harvard study finds – A new Harvard study on Boston Consulting Group employees found that using GPT-4 increased performance by 40% but also made them 19% more likely to make errors on tasks outside the AI’s capabilities.
• AI can predict which hospital patients are at greatest risk of harm – Scientists have developed an AI tool that analyzes patient health records to predict the risk of in-hospital harm, such as sepsis or pressure ulcers, with up to 90% accuracy.
• Supreme Court refuses to touch Section 230’s application to generative AI – The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a case questioning whether Section 230 legal protections apply to generative AI, leaving the current liability shield in place for now.
• CoreWeave secures $7.5 billion in debt financing to build out AI-powering infrastructure – AI cloud provider CoreWeave has secured a $7.5 billion debt facility to scale its infrastructure and meet the massive demand for AI computing resources.
• More Young Men Turn to AI Girlfriends for Companionship – A recent survey indicates that one in four young men would consider using an AI chatbot for dating or companionship, sparking discussion about technology’s role in addressing loneliness.
• Ideogram launches new ‘Magic Compose’ inpainting tool and other features – AI image generator Ideogram has launched a new feature called Magic Compose that allows users to edit and modify specific parts of an image using text prompts.
• A new open source multimodal AI model claims to beat GPT-4V, but researchers are skeptical – A new open-source multimodal model called Llama3-V claims to outperform GPT-4V and Gemini Ultra, though its results are being debated by the AI community.
• Stack Overflow and OpenAI partner to bring more technical knowledge into ChatGPT – Stack Overflow has announced a partnership with OpenAI to improve ChatGPT’s coding abilities by providing it with better, attributed answers from its platform.
• The Waning Days of the Craft: Amazon is developing a show based on the AI article – Amazon is developing a TV series based on a New York Times Magazine story about how generative AI is profoundly changing the lives and work of computer programmers.
• Rabbit says it has shipped the first 10,000 r1 devices – AI hardware startup Rabbit announced it has shipped the first 10,000 units of its R1 device and is preparing a major over-the-air software update for early next week.
• Haystack raises $13M to build RAG apps for the enterprise – Haystack, a platform that helps developers build search and Retrieval-Augmented Generation applications for enterprises, has raised $13 million in seed funding.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Dream Machine – A new AI model that generates high-quality, realistic five-second video clips from text and image prompts.
• Perplexity Pages – A feature that instantly converts search queries into shareable, well-structured articles, reports, or guides.
• Stable Diffusion 3 Medium – An advanced, open-source text-to-image model from Stability AI, notable for its quality and ability to render text.
• Viggle – An AI video tool that animates a static character image based on the motion from a source video.
• Kling – An AI video model from Kuaishou capable of generating up to two minutes of high-quality 1080p video.
• HeyGen – A video platform that allows you to create studio-quality videos with realistic AI avatars and voices.
• Suno – An AI tool that generates complete songs, including vocals and instrumentation, from a simple text prompt.
• Udio – A platform for creating full-length, high-quality songs with AI from text descriptions.
• Google Vids – An AI-powered video creation app for work that assists with writing, production, and editing from a simple prompt.
• Opus Clip – A generative AI tool that automatically repurposes long videos into viral-ready short clips.
• Krea – A creative suite featuring real-time AI image and video generation and enhancement tools.
• Mindgrasp – An AI learning assistant that creates notes and answers questions from any document, presentation, or video.
• RunwayML – A comprehensive online platform for AI-powered video editing, generation, and creative tooling.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s foundational conversational AI for a wide range of text generation and understanding tasks.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for producing high-quality, artistic images from text prompts.
• Leonardo AI – An AI-powered content production suite for creating and editing images, textures, and other visual assets.
• AI Story Generator – A tool that uses AI to generate unique, illustrated stories for children.
• Recap – An AI tool that automates meeting summaries, action item tracking, and follow-up emails.
• Looka – An AI-powered platform to design a complete brand identity, from a logo to a website and marketing materials.
• Mindjoy – A platform for educators that uses AI to create personalized learning plans and projects for any subject.
• Microsoft Copilot – Microsoft’s AI assistant integrated across its products like Windows, Office, and Edge to enhance productivity.
• SEC Insights – A specialized AI tool designed to help users search and analyze corporate SEC filings.
• GPT-SoVITS – A powerful open-source model for text-to-speech (TTS) and few-shot voice cloning.
• Groq – A platform providing developers with access to run large language models at exceptionally high speeds on its custom LPU hardware.
• LeMUR – AssemblyAI’s framework for applying large language models specifically to tasks involving voice data.
• Prometheus – An open-source language model specifically designed to accurately evaluate the performance of other language models.
• OpenCodeInterpreter – An open-source family of code generation models designed to execute and interpret code for software development tasks.
• Danswer – An open-source enterprise search tool that connects to workplace applications to provide AI-powered answers.
• Domo – A business intelligence platform that allows users to connect and transform data into AI-powered dashboards.

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