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, a new suite of AI features for iPhones, iPads, and Macs – Apple unveiled its personal intelligence system that integrates generative models across its operating systems, featuring on-device processing and an integration with ChatGPT.
• Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices at his companies over OpenAI integration – Following Apple’s announcement of a ChatGPT integration in iOS 18, Elon Musk voiced security concerns and stated he would prohibit the use of Apple devices at Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI if the AI is integrated at the operating system level.
• Luma Labs unveils Dream Machine, a high-quality text-to-video AI model available to the public – A new AI model for generating high-quality, realistic, and consistent video clips from text prompts has been released, positioning it as a strong competitor to OpenAI’s Sora.
• Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, its most advanced text-to-image model – The new 2B parameter model offers photorealistic quality, excels at generating text without artifacts, and is compact enough to run on consumer PCs.
• Humanoid robot company Figure signs deal to bring its robots to a BMW factory – Figure will deploy its general-purpose humanoid robots for automotive production tasks at BMW’s manufacturing plant in South Carolina.
• Perplexity launches ‘Pages’ to turn search queries into articles and presentations – The new feature allows users to curate information from search results and generate a visually organized, shareable webpage or report on any topic.
• AI assistant company Inflection makes its ‘Inflection-2.5’ model available via API – The high-EQ model that powers the Pi chatbot is now accessible to developers, offering near-GPT-4 level performance with a focus on a more personal and empathetic style.
• AI hardware startup Humane is reportedly seeking a buyer – Following poor reviews and sales of its AI Pin, the company is exploring a sale with a potential price between $750 million and $1 billion.
• Mistral is reportedly considering a partially open-source ‘community’ model – The French AI startup may shift its strategy for its next major model release, potentially moving away from a fully open-source approach to better compete with rivals.
• Raspberry Pi shares surge 30% in its London Stock Exchange IPO – The maker of popular, low-cost single-board computers had a successful stock market debut, with its valuation rising significantly on the first day of trading.
• Former OpenAI safety leaders launch new AI safety-focused company – Jan Leike and Daniel Kokotajlo, who recently resigned from OpenAI over safety concerns, have founded Safe AI with the mission of ensuring the safety of advanced AI systems.
• Google DeepMind introduces V2A, a new AI for generating audio for video – The new video-to-audio technology can create synchronized sound effects, music, and even dialogue for silent video clips based on visual cues and text prompts.
• NYT lawsuit reveals evidence that OpenAI used its articles to train GPT-4 – The New York Times’ copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI has uncovered internal communications and evidence indicating the company used the newspaper’s content for training its models.
• Parisian AI startup ‘H’ raises $220M in a seed round to build foundational models – Founded by former researchers from Google DeepMind and backed by major investors including Bernard Arnault and Eric Schmidt, the company aims to develop “action models” for enterprises.
• Japan’s Sakana AI uses evolutionary techniques to create powerful new AI models – The Tokyo-based startup is pioneering a method inspired by natural selection to automatically merge and evolve existing open-source AI models into more capable ones.
• Character.AI introduces Character Voice, allowing users to create custom AI voices – The popular AI chatbot platform now enables users to generate unique voices for their AI characters simply by providing a short audio sample and a text description.
• McKinsey report claims generative AI could add up to $4.4 trillion to the global economy annually – The consulting firm’s latest analysis highlights generative AI’s potential to significantly boost productivity across various sectors, automating tasks that absorb 60 to 70 percent of employees’ time.
• A study finds Google’s AI Overviews are showing fewer links to websites – Research shows that AI-generated answers in Google search results are reducing the number of organic links displayed, potentially impacting traffic for publishers and content creators.
• Nvidia’s 10-for-1 stock split takes effect, making shares more accessible – The AI chip giant’s stock began trading at a split-adjusted price, aiming to make share ownership more affordable for employees and individual investors.
• AI-powered marketing platform Section raises $25M in Series A funding – Section uses autonomous AI agents to automate and execute marketing tasks like creating social media calendars, writing blog posts, and analyzing campaign data.
• GOP group uses AI voice of a deceased father in an ad responding to the State of the Union – A Republican-aligned non-profit created an ad featuring an AI-generated voice clone of a parent who lost their child to a fentanyl overdose, raising ethical questions about the use of AI in political messaging.
• The EU’s AI Act is likely to be delayed until 2026 – The full implementation of the landmark European Union legislation on artificial intelligence is facing delays due to a shortage of qualified experts needed to develop the necessary standards.
• YouTube is testing server-side ad injection to counter ad blockers – Google is experimenting with a new method of embedding ads directly into video streams on the server, making them much more difficult for ad-blocking software to detect and skip.
• AI data security startup Cyera raises $300M at a $1.4B valuation – The company, which uses AI to help businesses secure their data across different environments, has raised new funding to expand its platform and team.
• AI helps researchers discover a new class of antibiotics effective against superbugs – An AI model identified a novel compound capable of killing a drug-resistant bacterium by disrupting its outer membrane in a way previously unexploited by existing drugs.

Trending AI Tools:

• OpenAI GPT-4o – A new flagship multimodal model from OpenAI that is faster, more capable, and available to all users.
• Google Veo – Google’s most advanced generative video model for creating high-quality, realistic video clips from text and image prompts.
• Google Imagen 3 – Google’s latest text-to-image model, offering incredibly detailed, photorealistic images and superior text rendering.
• ElevenLabs – An AI platform for generating realistic text-to-speech voices and a new model for creating text-to-sound effects.
• Google Project Astra – A real-time, multimodal AI agent prototype from Google that can see, hear, and understand its surroundings through a device’s camera.
• Suno – An AI music generation tool that creates original songs, complete with vocals and lyrics, from a simple text prompt.
• Udio – An AI music creation tool that generates full-length songs with vocals and allows users to extend their tracks.
• Runway – A comprehensive AI video editing and generation suite that recently announced its next-generation Gen-3 Alpha model.
• Viggle – A controllable video generation AI that animates static characters with motion captured from a reference video.
• Google Music AI Sandbox – A suite of experimental AI tools from Google for creating and transforming music and sounds.
• Notion – A connected workspace that integrates AI to instantly answer questions based on the content within your documents and notes.
• Cognition AI (Devin) – An autonomous AI software engineer designed to handle and complete complex development projects from a single prompt.
• Hume AI – An AI lab building an Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) that can understand and respond to the emotional nuances in human speech.
• Pika – An AI-powered video platform that can generate and edit videos in various styles, including 3D animation, anime, and cinematic.
• HeyGen – A video platform that uses AI to create professional videos featuring realistic avatars and voice cloning.
• Opus Clip – An AI tool that automatically repurposes long-form videos into polished, viral short clips for social media platforms.
• Vana – A platform that creates a personal AI model of you, allowing you to generate studio-quality portraits and videos of yourself.
• Tripo AI – An AI tool that generates high-quality, textured 3D models from text prompts or still images in seconds.
• Adobe Project Music GenAI Control – An early-stage Adobe research project for generating and editing music using text prompts and advanced controls.
• Stico – An iMessage app that uses AI to turn your text prompts and images into animated stickers.
• StoryBird.ai – An AI-powered tool that helps you create personalized, illustrated children’s storybooks.
• Durable – An AI platform that can build a professional website, create a business name, and design a logo in under a minute.
• Fine – An AI agent that automates repetitive and time-consuming tasks in software development by understanding your entire codebase.
• Guidde – A platform that uses AI to help you create video documentation and how-to guides in seconds.
• Munch – An AI platform that automatically extracts the most engaging and shareable clips from your long-form videos for social media.
• Recap – An AI-powered tool and browser extension that can summarize any webpage, PDF, or YouTube video for you.
• Superwhisper – A fast and accurate local speech-to-text application for macOS that works across all your programs.
• Mayday – An intelligent calendar that uses AI to automate scheduling, protect your focus time, and manage your tasks.
• Screenie – A macOS app that allows you to instantly search for words spoken or shown in your entire library of screen recordings.
• Cartwheel – A platform for building and deploying autonomous AI sales agents to handle tasks like prospecting and lead qualification.
• Lindy – A platform that creates “AI Employees” to automate complex workflows like email triage, scheduling, or candidate screening.
• Vizard – An AI video editor designed to help you repurpose webinars and long videos into engaging social media clips.
• Mixo – An AI website builder that can generate a complete, multi-page website from a single text prompt describing your business idea.
• Poe by Quora – A platform that lets you discover, create, and interact with a vast ecosystem of AI chatbots powered by different models.
• Perplexity – A conversational AI search engine that provides direct, cited answers to questions by synthesizing information from the web.
• Leonardo – A generative AI platform for creating high-quality visual assets, including images, art, and illustrations from text prompts.
• Microsoft Copilot – Microsoft’s AI assistant integrated across its products to help with coding, writing, data analysis, and other tasks.
• Splash Pro – An AI music tool that lets you create unique, royalty-free songs and custom AI vocals from text.
• Chivvy – A playful, AI-powered accountability buddy designed to help you stop procrastinating and stick to your goals.
• ExplainThis – A simple AI tool that provides clear and concise explanations on any topic you ask it about.
• AI Story Generator by NovelAI – A platform for AI-assisted authorship, offering tools for storytelling, text adventure creation, and virtual companionship.
• Openlayer – An evaluation platform for developers to test their LLM applications, identify failures, and fix issues before they reach production.

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