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 – Apple unveiled “Apple Intelligence,” its new personal AI system deeply integrated into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, which also includes a partnership with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to its platforms.
• Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices and drops OpenAI lawsuit – Elon Musk threatened to ban Apple devices from his companies over the new ChatGPT integration, citing security risks, and also officially withdrew his lawsuit against OpenAI.
• Luma Labs launches Dream Machine video generator – Luma Labs launched Dream Machine, a publicly accessible and highly capable text-to-video model that can quickly generate high-quality, 5-second video clips.
• Perplexity launches Pages to turn searches into articles – AI search engine Perplexity introduced a new feature called Pages, which allows users to convert search queries and research into comprehensive, shareable articles or reports.
• Mistral AI releases Codestral for code generation – Mistral AI released Codestral, a new open-weight 22B parameter model specialized for code generation that supports over 80 programming languages.
• Nvidia overtakes Apple as world’s second most valuable company – Driven by massive demand for its AI chips, Nvidia’s market value surpassed Apple’s, making it the world’s second-most valuable company.
• Microsoft makes Recall feature opt-in after security backlash – Following widespread criticism from security experts, Microsoft announced it will make its controversial screen-capturing Recall feature opt-in and add more security protections.
• Y Combinator announces new $500k deal for AI startups – Y Combinator launched a new, more favorable standard deal for AI startups, offering $500,000 to help them manage the high costs of building AI products.
• OpenAI hires new CFO and CPO – OpenAI hired Sarah Friar, former CEO of Nextdoor, as its first Chief Financial Officer and Kevin Weil, former president of Planet Labs, as its new Chief Product Officer.
• Stability AI appoints new CEO – Stability AI has appointed Prem Akkaraju, former CEO of visual effects company Weta Digital, as its new chief executive to lead the company.
• ElevenLabs launches AI sound effects generator – AI voice company ElevenLabs launched a new tool that can generate sound effects, foley, and short instrumental tracks from text prompts.
• Google launches Music AI Sandbox for artists – Google introduced Music AI Sandbox, a suite of AI-powered tools designed to help musicians generate new musical ideas and create instrumental tracks from text prompts.
• First Neuralink patient plays online chess with his mind – Noland Arbaugh, the first human recipient of a Neuralink brain implant, demonstrated his ability to control a computer cursor with his mind by playing an online game of chess.
• Figure’s humanoid robots learn to make coffee from watching videos – AI robotics company Figure released a new video demonstrating its humanoid robots learning to make coffee autonomously after watching videos of humans.
• Raspberry Pi shares surge in successful IPO – Raspberry Pi’s shares surged by over 30% during its initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange, valuing the low-cost computer maker at around £542 million.
• Character.AI in talks with Google for new funding – Character.AI is reportedly in advanced talks with Google for a funding round that could value the AI chatbot startup at over $5 billion.
• Waymo expands driverless robotaxi service in Phoenix – Waymo has expanded its driverless robotaxi service area in Phoenix, Arizona, now covering 315 square miles and connecting the city to the neighboring suburb of Scottsdale.
• New AI model ‘MeanFold’ predicts protein structures with atomic accuracy – Researchers from the University of Washington developed “MeanFold,” a new AI model that can accurately predict the structure of protein-protein complexes, a significant advance for drug discovery.
• Voiceitt 2 launches to help people with speech disabilities – Voiceitt launched Voiceitt 2, an AI-powered app that enables real-time spoken communication for people with speech disabilities by translating non-standard speech into standard language.
• Sakana AI develops culturally-specific LLMs for Japan – Japanese startup Sakana AI has used an evolutionary AI approach to develop large language models that generate responses tailored to specific Japanese cultural norms.
• Snowflake releases Arctic, an open-source enterprise model – Data cloud company Snowflake launched Arctic, a new family of open, enterprise-grade language and code models designed to be highly efficient for business use cases.
• Midjourney rolls out improved /describe feature – Midjourney has rolled out a new version of its /describe command, which now provides much more detailed and creative text prompts based on an uploaded image.
• Meta introduces ‘Chameleon’ early-fusion multimodal model – Meta has introduced Chameleon, a family of early-fusion, token-based mixed-modal models that can understand and generate both images and text seamlessly.
• Cerebras releases new suite of open-source models – AI chip company Cerebras has released a new suite of open-source models, including a 3B parameter model, trained on its CS-3 systems to showcase their hardware capabilities.
• US government mandates Chief AI Officers for all major agencies – The White House has mandated that all major federal agencies must appoint a Chief AI Officer to oversee the responsible use and deployment of artificial intelligence.
• SEC Chair warns companies against “AI washing” – SEC Chair Gary Gensler cautioned companies against “AI washing,” the practice of making exaggerated or false claims about their use of artificial intelligence to attract investors.
• YouTube enforces new AI-generated content labeling rules – YouTube is now requiring creators to label content made with generative AI that is realistic, with potential penalties including content removal for non-compliance.
• Google Search updates reduce inaccurate AI Overviews – Google announced it has implemented significant updates to its AI Overviews in Search to reduce inaccuracies and prevent nonsensical or harmful responses.

Trending AI Tools:

• Claude 3.5 Sonnet – Anthropic’s fastest and most cost-effective model yet, featuring a new ‘Artifacts’ workspace for interactive content creation.
• Luma Dream Machine – A publicly available text-to-video model that generates high-quality, 5-second video clips from text prompts.
• Perplexity Pages – A feature that converts AI search queries into comprehensive, shareable, and visually appealing articles or reports.
• Viggle – An AI tool that animates a still character image based on a separate motion prompt video, creating consistent character movement.
• Krea – An AI suite for creative work that offers real-time image generation, enhancement, and an upscaling API.
• Pinokio – A browser that allows you to install, run, and control AI applications and models on your own computer with one click.
• Visual Electric 2.0 – A creative AI image generator focused on artistic control, producing vibrant and imaginative visuals.
• Suno – An AI platform that generates original songs, complete with vocals and instruments, from simple text prompts.
• Pika – A popular AI platform for creating and editing videos from text, images, or other videos.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator renowned for its superior ability to accurately render coherent text within images.
• Opus Clip – A generative AI video tool that automatically repurposes long videos into polished, viral-ready short clips.
• Framer – An AI-powered website builder that lets you generate and design professional websites using text prompts.
• Sudo Write – An AI writing partner for fiction authors that offers tools like ‘Rewrite’ for more controlled and nuanced text editing.
• Sidekick – An AI-powered assistant that joins your online meetings to automatically take notes, track action items, and create summaries.
• Eraser – An AI-powered tool that helps software teams create technical diagrams and documentation from natural language.
• Pincel – An AI tool that generates professional-quality corporate headshots from your existing photos.
• Pythagora – An open-source tool that automatically creates integration tests for your application by capturing real user activities.
• Giskard – An open-source quality assurance platform to test and evaluate large language models for issues like hallucinations, bias, and security flaws.
• Trieve – An open-source search platform built for RAG applications that combines traditional keyword search with semantic search capabilities.
• Together AI – A cloud platform providing fast inference for hundreds of open-source AI models via a simple API.
• Hugging Face Transformers Agent – A library for creating agents that can use multiple tools and reason through complex tasks with open-source models.
• NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails – An open-source toolkit for adding programmable safety and security boundaries to LLM-powered applications.
• Qwen2-72B – A powerful and state-of-the-art open-source language model from Alibaba’s Qwen team.
• Snowflake Cortex Analyst & Cortex Search – New LLM-powered tools within Snowflake that allow users to query structured data and search documents using natural language.
• Osum – An AI-powered market research tool that provides instant analysis and insights about your business, competitors, and industry.
• Leonardo AI – A comprehensive generative AI platform for creating and editing images and video, which recently released a new image model called Phoenix.
• Vidnoz – An AI video platform with a suite of tools for creating videos, including AI avatars, voice cloning, and talking heads.
• Kaiber – An AI video generation tool that transforms your ideas, images, or audio into dynamic and expressive videos.
• Pictory – An AI tool that automatically creates short, branded videos from your long-form content such as articles and webinars.
• Guidde – A tool that helps teams create instant video documentation and how-to guides for software and processes.
• Mindgrasp – An AI learning assistant that instantly creates accurate notes and answers questions from any document, presentation, or video.
• ClickUp – A productivity platform that integrates AI to streamline workflows, manage tasks, and summarize information.
• Stripe – The payment processing platform now uses AI to automatically update expired card details and recover failed payments.

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