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:

• xAI raises $6 billion to challenge OpenAI – Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has raised $6 billion in a Series B funding round to develop advanced infrastructure and bring its first products to market.
• Google AI Overviews produce bizarre and dangerous answers – Google’s new AI-generated search summaries are being widely criticized for providing incorrect and unsafe answers, such as suggesting users eat rocks or put glue on pizza.
• OpenAI partners with The Atlantic and Vox Media for content and training – OpenAI has announced content licensing and product partnerships with The Atlantic and Vox Media, allowing their journalism to be used in ChatGPT and for training future models.
• Leaked Google documents reveal internal AI search struggles – Internal documents leaked from Google show the company is grappling with how to integrate AI into its search engine, focusing on difficult trade-offs between user satisfaction and providing traffic to websites.
• Scale AI raises $1 billion, doubling its valuation to $13.8 billion – Data labeling and evaluation company Scale AI has announced a $1 billion funding round led by Accel, valuing the company at $13.8 billion.
• Mistral AI is reportedly raising $600 million at a $6 billion valuation – Paris-based AI startup Mistral is in talks for a new $600 million funding round that would triple its valuation to $6 billion.
• Former OpenAI safety leads launch a new AI safety research organization – Jan Leike and Daniel Kokotajlo, who recently resigned from OpenAI’s superalignment team, have launched Superalignment Fast-Forward Evolution (SAFE) to focus purely on AI safety and alignment research.
• Scarlett Johansson claims OpenAI used a voice “eerily similar” to hers – Actress Scarlett Johansson issued a statement that OpenAI’s “Sky” voice was so similar to her own that she was “forced to hire legal counsel,” after she had previously declined an offer to voice the system.
• Microsoft’s new “Recall” AI feature sparks major privacy concerns – Microsoft’s upcoming Copilot+ PCs will include a feature called Recall that constantly screenshots user activity to create a searchable history, raising significant privacy and security alarms among experts.
• Nvidia stock surges past $1,000 after blowout earnings report – Nvidia reported quarterly earnings that far exceeded expectations and announced a 10-for-1 stock split, driving its share price to a record high.
• Humane is reportedly exploring a sale of its company for up to $1 billion – Just one month after launching its poorly-reviewed Ai Pin, hardware startup Humane is reportedly looking to sell itself for a price between $750 million and $1 billion.
• Apple is reportedly finalizing a deal to bring ChatGPT to the iPhone – A new report suggests Apple is closing in on an agreement with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT features into its upcoming iOS 18 operating system.
• Legal AI startup Harvey nears funding at a $2 billion valuation – Harvey, an AI company that provides tools for legal professionals, is reportedly raising about $600 million in a new funding round that would value it at over $2 billion.
• Adept is said to raise $100M for its AI agent models – AI agent startup Adept has reportedly secured $100 million in new funding to continue building models that can automate complex software tasks for users.
• Google DeepMind introduces “Safe-RLHF” to train safer LLMs – Researchers at Google have developed a new method called “Safe Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback” that makes AI models more helpful without increasing their propensity for harmful responses.
• Cohere releases Rerank 3, a new model for enterprise search – Cohere has launched Rerank 3, a new foundation model designed to significantly improve the accuracy of enterprise search and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.
• Ilya Sutskever is starting his own AI company after leaving OpenAI – OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is reportedly starting a new, yet-to-be-named artificial intelligence company.
• Google’s medical AI chatbot shows superior performance to human doctors – A study on Google’s AI research model, AMIE, found that it demonstrated higher diagnostic accuracy and empathy in text-based patient consultations compared to human primary care physicians.
• Study finds AI image generators amplify racial and gender stereotypes – A comprehensive analysis by Bloomberg News revealed that leading text-to-image AI models from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Stability AI perpetuate harmful stereotypes by associating specific jobs with certain genders and races.
• Perplexity AI accused of plagiarism and ignoring web standards – AI search company Perplexity is facing criticism for summarizing articles with minimal attribution and for reportedly ignoring the “robots.txt” protocol that tells crawlers not to scrape a website.
• AMD details annual AI chip release plan to challenge Nvidia – AMD announced it will release new AI accelerator chips on a yearly cadence to better compete with Nvidia’s dominant position in the AI hardware market.
• Character.AI is in funding talks with Google and other investors – Popular AI chatbot startup Character.AI is reportedly in discussions with investors, including Google, to raise a new round of funding.
• China’s Zhipu AI launches new GLM-4 model to compete with GPT-4 – Alibaba-backed Zhipu AI has released its latest and most powerful model, GLM-4, as a domestic Chinese competitor to OpenAI’s GPT-4.
• Klarna’s AI assistant now handles two-thirds of its customer service chats – Fintech company Klarna announced its AI assistant is managing 66% of customer service inquiries and has contributed to a $30 million improvement in profits.
• ElevenLabs launches AI tool that reads web pages and documents aloud – Voice AI leader ElevenLabs has released a new product called Reader, which can take text from websites, PDFs, and other documents and turn it into natural-sounding audio.
• Hugging Face releases Idefics2, a powerful open-source vision-language model – Hugging Face has launched Idefics2, a new 8-billion-parameter multimodal model that can answer questions about images, transcribe text, and perform various other vision-language tasks.
• Microsoft’s new Copilot+ PCs are shipping without their main AI features – The first wave of Microsoft’s AI-focused Copilot+ PCs will not include some of their most promoted features at launch, including the controversial Recall, which will come in a later update.
• Rabbit R1 reviews are overwhelmingly negative – Following its much-hyped launch, early reviews for the Rabbit R1 AI gadget have been poor, with critics citing slow response times, limited functionality, and short battery life.
• Hazy, a synthetic data startup, raises $9 million – Hazy, a London-based company that generates privacy-preserving synthetic data for enterprises, has secured $9 million in a new funding round.

Trending AI Tools:

• Suno – An AI music generator that creates songs with vocals and instrumentation from simple text prompts.
• Claude 3 – A family of powerful large language models from Anthropic that are now outperforming competitors on key benchmarks.
• Devin – An autonomous AI agent from Cognition Labs designed to operate as a complete software engineer.
• Adobe Premiere Pro – Professional video editing software that is integrating new generative AI features for adding or removing objects and extending clips.
• Viggle AI – A free AI tool that can generate character-consistent videos from a text prompt and a character image.
• DBRX – A powerful open-source large language model released by Databricks, excelling in code and general tasks.
• Grok – Elon Musk’s AI model, notable for its real-time access to X (Twitter) data, which is being open-sourced.
• OpenAI Sora – OpenAI’s highly anticipated text-to-video model capable of generating realistic and imaginative high-definition scenes.
• GPT-4 – OpenAI’s powerful, multimodal large language model that often serves as a benchmark for AI performance.
• EMO – An AI model from Alibaba that animates a single portrait photo to talk or sing realistically based on an audio clip.
• GPT-5 – The highly anticipated next-generation flagship model from OpenAI, rumored to be launching in the summer.
• Humane AI Pin – A new AI-powered wearable device that aims to replace smartphones by projecting a display onto your hand.
• Rabbit R1 – A pocket-sized AI companion device designed to understand natural language and execute tasks on your apps.
• Leonardo AI – A popular AI image generation platform that has introduced a new text-to-video feature called Motion.
• Midjourney – A leading AI image generator reportedly training a new model on a massive dataset to enhance its capabilities.
• Command R – A new, highly scalable open-source language model from Cohere designed for real-world enterprise use cases.
• ElevenLabs – A leading AI platform for creating realistic text-to-speech and voice cloning.
• Microsoft Copilot – Microsoft’s AI assistant, which is now integrating Suno’s technology for AI music generation.
• FigJam AI – An AI-powered tool within Figma’s whiteboard for brainstorming, generating templates, and organizing ideas.
• Runway – A pioneering creative suite and key player in the AI text-to-video generation space.
• Pika – A popular and accessible AI tool for creating and editing videos from text prompts and images.
• Fireflies.ai – An AI notetaker that joins your meetings to automatically transcribe, summarize, and analyze conversations.
• Lindy – An AI assistant designed to handle your email by drafting replies and managing your inbox.
• Taskade – An AI-powered productivity platform that combines tasks, notes, and chat in one unified workspace.
• Deepgram – An API platform for developers to build applications with advanced speech-to-text and audio intelligence features.

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• CommandBar – CommandBar offers AI-powered user assistance tools like help-hubs and chatbots that can be embedded in your product to reduce support tickets.
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• Brilliant – Brilliant is an interactive learning platform that helps you build quantitative skills in math, science, and computer science through problem-solving.
• VEED – VEED is an online video editing platform with AI-powered tools that make creating and editing professional videos easy.