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 Intelligence – Apple announced “Apple Intelligence,” its new personal AI system integrated into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, featuring on-device processing, writing tools, image generation, and a revamped Siri with an optional ChatGPT-4o integration.
• Elon Musk Threatens Apple Ban and Drops OpenAI Lawsuit – Elon Musk threatened to ban Apple devices from his companies over the new OpenAI integration citing security concerns, just one day after he abruptly dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI.
• OpenAI Hires New Executives – OpenAI has appointed former Planet Labs and Instagram executive Kevin Weil as its new Chief Product Officer and promoted Pranab Parikh to Chief People Officer.
• Mistral AI Raising $600 Million – French AI startup Mistral AI is reportedly raising $600 million in a new funding round that values the company at nearly $6 billion.
• Perplexity Launches Pages – AI search engine Perplexity has launched “Pages,” a new feature that allows users to generate, customize, and share visually appealing web pages from their search queries.
• Section 230 Does Not Protect AI Companies from Liability – The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office stated that Section 230, a law that shields platforms from liability for user content, does not protect AI companies from liability for harmful content their models generate.
• NVIDIA Releases Nemotron-4 340B Open Models – NVIDIA released a family of open models, Nemotron-4 340B, designed to help developers generate high-quality synthetic data to train other large language models.
• Oracle Announces Cloud Deals with Google and OpenAI – Oracle announced new cloud infrastructure deals with both Google and OpenAI, causing its stock to surge in after-hours trading.
• Klarna AI Assistant Handles Majority of Customer Service – Fintech company Klarna announced its AI assistant now manages two-thirds of all customer service chats, resolving issues faster and leading to a projected $40 million profit improvement.
• Humane Reportedly Seeking a Buyer – AI hardware startup Humane is reportedly exploring a sale of the company for a price between $750 million and $1 billion following the difficult launch of its AI Pin.
• Figure’s Humanoid Robots Deployed at BMW – Humanoid robotics startup Figure shared new footage of its robots identifying and handling car parts in a real-world training environment at a BMW manufacturing plant.
• Luma Labs Launches Dream Machine Video Model – Luma Labs released Dream Machine, a new publicly available text-to-video model capable of creating high-quality, realistic five-second video clips from prompts.
• Medical AI Performs on Par with Top Specialists – A new AI model called ARTEMIS demonstrated the ability to assess cardiac ultrasound videos with the accuracy of a top-level human cardiology expert.
• Study Finds AI Coding Assistants Can Increase Security Risks – A recent study found that while generative AI tools like GitHub Copilot improve developer productivity, they can also lead to more security vulnerabilities in the code produced.
• Inflection AI Hires New CEO – AI startup Inflection has hired former Mozilla executive Sean White as its new CEO to lead the company’s pivot towards an enterprise-focused API and model licensing business.
• Children in China Forming Bonds with AI Chatbots – A New York Times report details a growing trend in China where children are forming deep emotional bonds with AI chatbot companions, raising questions about social development.
• Raspberry Pi Launches AI Kit – Raspberry Pi has launched an AI Kit, built with a Hailo AI accelerator, to allow developers to build complex computer vision applications locally on their devices.
• Llama 3 Models Now Available on Groq – Groq has made Meta’s Llama 3 models available on its LPU Inference Engine, enabling developers to build applications with ultra-low latency.
• Runway Introduces Multi Motion Brush – AI video editor Runway launched a new “Multi Motion Brush” feature, allowing users to precisely control the movement of multiple different objects or areas within a generated video.
• Google to Launch ‘Private Space’ in Android 15 – Google is introducing “Private Space” in Android 15, a feature similar to Samsung’s Secure Folder that lets users hide and lock sensitive apps in a separate, password-protected profile.
• Defog AI Publishes SQL Fine-Tuning Guide – Defog AI released a technical guide explaining how they fine-tuned a CodeLlama-7B model to achieve state-of-the-art results on text-to-SQL generation benchmarks.
• Final Frame – Final Frame is a new AI tool that can generate entire comic books from simple text prompts.
• Augie – Augie is a new AI-powered platform designed to help marketing teams create videos with AI-generated scripts, voiceovers, and footage.
• Piggy – Piggy is a new AI tool that generates complete and editable slide presentations from a single text prompt.
• Katalist – Katalist is an AI tool that assists filmmakers and content creators by quickly generating visual storyboards.
• HeyGen Sales – The AI video platform HeyGen has launched a new feature for creating personalized sales videos at scale.
• Leonardo AI Phoenix – Leonardo AI has released Phoenix, a new foundational model designed to excel at photorealism and understanding complex natural language prompts.
• Viggle – Viggle is a new AI tool that can animate static character images by applying motion from a separate reference video.
• Krea – Krea AI has updated its platform with new tools for real-time video-to-video generation and high-quality image upscaling.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Dream Machine – A new text-to-video model for generating high-quality, realistic video clips from text and images.
• Apple Intelligence – Apple’s new personal intelligence system integrated across its operating systems to enhance writing, image creation, and on-device actions.
• Perplexity Pages – An AI feature that transforms research prompts into comprehensive, well-cited articles, reports, and guides.
• Suno – An AI model that generates realistic songs, including lyrics and vocals, from simple text prompts.
• Pika – An idea-to-video platform that generates and edits videos from text prompts and images.
• Udio – A text-to-music generation tool that creates high-quality, full-length songs with vocals based on user prompts.
• Poolside – An AI-powered platform building a foundational model for code to accelerate software development.
• Magnific – A powerful AI tool for upscaling, enhancing, and reimagining images with incredible detail.
• Bland AI – A platform for developers to build, test, and scale conversational AI phone agents that can handle calls.
• Phind – An AI search engine and pair programmer specifically designed to answer technical questions for developers.
• Explainpaper – An AI-powered tool that helps you understand confusing text in academic research papers by letting you highlight and ask questions.
• Leonardo AI – An AI platform for generating high-quality visual assets, including images and 3D textures, for creative projects.
• Glass Health – An AI-powered tool that provides clinical decision support and helps doctors generate differential diagnoses for complex patient cases.
• Defog.ai – An AI tool that converts natural language questions into highly accurate SQL and data analysis code.
• Tactiq – An AI-powered meeting assistant that provides real-time transcription, summaries, and action items for video conferences.
• Krea – A suite of AI tools for real-time image and video generation, upscaling, and enhancement.
• Splash – An AI-powered platform that enables users to create and perform original music with AI-generated vocals.
• Adobe Firefly – Adobe’s family of creative generative AI models designed for safe commercial use in generating images, vectors, and text effects.
• Durable – An AI website builder that can create a complete business website with images and copy in under a minute.
• Argil – A no-code platform that allows you to automate tasks and build custom AI workflows for your business.
• Scenario – An AI platform for generating consistent, high-quality, and style-consistent game assets in minutes.
• Magic Studio – A suite of AI-powered tools for automatically creating and editing images for product showcases and social media.
• Brevity – An AI tool that summarizes long-form content like articles, documents, and videos into concise summaries.
• Clerk – A developer-focused tool that provides complete, secure user authentication and management for applications.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A platform that allows you to create custom AI chatbots that are fine-tuned on your specific company data and documents.

Sponsors:

• Incogni – A service that finds and removes your personal information from the dark web and data brokers.
• Masterworks – An investment platform that allows you to invest in shares of multi-million dollar paintings by artists like Banksy and Basquiat.
• Rows – An AI-powered spreadsheet that helps you automate tasks like lead generation, text summarization, and data analysis.
• Beehiiv – An email newsletter platform designed to help you launch, grow, and monetize your publication.
• Intel – A technology company hosting the HPC Developer Summit to discuss high-performance computing tools and techniques.
• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design studio that helps businesses solve problems with custom software and AI solutions.