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 unveiled ‘Apple Intelligence’ – a new AI system deeply integrated into its operating systems that combines on-device processing with a private cloud and an optional ChatGPT integration.
• Elon Musk has dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman – which had accused the company of abandoning its founding mission.
• Luma Labs launched Dream Machine – a new text-to-video generation model available to the public that is being praised for its high quality, coherence, and speed.
• Perplexity AI launched ‘Pages’ – a new feature that allows users to generate comprehensive, shareable articles and reports from research by using a single prompt.
• Character.AI is reportedly in talks with investors – including Google, for a new funding round that could value the AI chatbot company at $5 billion.
• Stability AI released Stable Diffusion 3 Medium – its most advanced text-to-image model yet, which is smaller in size and excels at photorealism and typography.
• xAI is planning to build the world’s largest supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee – a project dubbed the “Gigafactory of Compute” estimated to cost billions of dollars.
• Humanoid robotics company Figure released a new video – demonstrating its Figure 01 robot having a full, autonomous conversation while performing tasks like making coffee.
• Mistral AI announced new offerings – including its first generative model for code generation called Codestral, new embedding models, and a partnership with Microsoft to make its models available on Azure.
• Former Google DeepMind researchers have launched Decoherence – a new AI search engine designed to provide more direct, reliable, and in-depth answers than existing search tools.
• AI voice generator ElevenLabs is raising a new funding round – led by Andreessen Horowitz that will value the company at over $1.1 billion.
• The U.S. Surgeon General is pushing for warning labels on social media platforms – similar to those on tobacco products, to alert parents to the potential mental health harms for adolescents.
• Amazon is launching a new AI-powered tool – that allows sellers to create product listings by simply providing a URL to their own website, which the AI then uses to generate product details.
• Suno has introduced a new feature – allowing users to extend their songs from a specified point, providing more creative control over compositions.
• A new study suggests that AI-powered stock-picking strategies can significantly outperform the S&P 500 – by analyzing vast amounts of data to identify market trends.
• Google’s AI-powered NotebookLM app is now available globally – with new features, including the ability to use Google Slides and web URLs as sources for its analysis.
• A research paper introduces “StreamingT2V,” – a new method that allows for the generation of long, high-quality videos from text prompts in a streaming, memory-efficient manner.
• Udio has now made its service available to all users – enabling them to create full-length songs from simple text prompts.
• YouTube is experimenting with a new feature – that uses AI to dynamically generate quizzes for educational videos, aiming to enhance viewer engagement and learning retention.
• Deforum has released an open-source AI video-to-video tool – that enables frame-by-frame editing and effects, offering a free alternative to tools like Pika Labs and Runway.
• AI Safety startup Reka has released Reka Core – a multimodal language model that it claims is competitive with leading models like GPT-4o and Claude 3 Opus.
• Glassdoor has begun adding AI-generated summaries to company profiles – synthesizing employee reviews to provide a quick overview of pros and cons.
• Google DeepMind introduced V2A – a new technology that generates synchronized audio, including sound effects and dialogue, for video clips based on visual cues and text prompts.
• The Humane AI Pin is set to receive a major software update in July – ‘OS 2.0,’ which aims to address performance issues like slow response times and overheating.
• Promethean AI launched an open beta for its AI copilot – designed for game and virtual world development, which assists artists by generating and searching for creative assets.
• Researchers have developed an AI system – that can identify “zero-day” security vulnerabilities in computer code with an accuracy rate of 73%.
• A new paper presents a framework called ‘Critic-Driven Reinforcement Learning’ – that uses a “critic” AI to provide natural language feedback to improve the performance of another AI agent on complex tasks.
• Alpha-Codium is a new code generation tool – designed to help developers create effective test suites for their projects.
• Gamma is an AI-powered tool – that allows users to create visually appealing presentations, documents, and webpages quickly from text prompts.
• Claude has introduced a new “Tool Use” feature in beta – which allows its AI models to interact with external tools and APIs to perform complex tasks.
• Fine-Tuner.ai is a no-code platform – that allows users to build and deploy custom AI agents and chatbots without needing programming skills.
• Civitai has launched an on-platform, LoRA model trainer in open beta – allowing users to easily train their own models directly on the site.
• YouCam Online Editor has launched a new AI clothing generator – that lets users virtually try on different outfits by changing clothes in their photos.
• Co-Developer is a VS Code extension – that acts as a ‘co-pilot for your entire codebase’, allowing for complex changes and debugging across multiple files.
• A new tool called ‘Paper-to-Poem’ – allows users to convert dense research papers into easily digestible and memorable poems using AI.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Dream Machine – A text-to-video generator for creating high-quality, realistic video clips from text prompts.
• HeyGen – A platform for creating realistic AI-generated avatar videos with lip-syncing, translation, and real-time streaming capabilities.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered conversational search engine that provides direct, cited answers to questions.
• CleanUp.pictures – An online tool for removing unwanted objects, people, text, and defects from any picture.
• Character.AI – An AI chatbot platform that lets you create and interact with unique characters, now with a group chat feature.
• Pika – An AI video generator that can create and edit videos from text and images, recently used to animate a movie trailer.
• Runway – An AI video editing and generation platform with advanced features like video-to-video, text-to-video, and text-to-music generation.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator that excels at creating images with coherent text and now offers prompt assistance.
• Glean – An AI-powered work assistant that searches across all your company’s apps to help you find information.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice generation and text-to-speech platform for creating realistic and expressive voiceovers.
• Google Vids – An AI-powered video creation app within Google Workspace that helps businesses create storyboards, scripts, and videos.
• Kling AI – A text-to-video generation model from a Chinese tech company, noted for its high-quality, long-duration output.
• Suno – An AI music generation tool that creates songs, complete with vocals and lyrics, from a simple text prompt.
• Morpheus-1 – A system designed to induce and stabilize lucid dreams using generative ultrasonic holograms.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for creating artistic and high-quality visuals from text prompts.
• Udio – An AI music generation platform for creating full tracks with professional-sounding lyrics and vocals from text prompts.
• Krea – An AI tool that offers real-time image generation and enhancement features, including controlling an AI world with your body.
• OpusClip – An AI-powered tool that automatically repurposes long videos into shorter, viral clips for social media.
• Story Diffusion – An open-source method for generating a series of consistent images for a story or video from a single prompt.
• Tome – An AI-powered presentation tool that helps you create and design compelling stories and slides from a prompt.
• Wondercraft AI – An AI-powered audio studio for creating podcasts, ads, and audiobooks with realistic voice clones.
• Julius AI – An AI data analyst that can explore, analyze, and visualize data from spreadsheets and files.
• Uizard – An AI-powered design tool that generates multi-screen UI mockups for apps and websites from text prompts.
• Cala – A free, AI-powered design interface and production platform for the fashion industry.
• Mindtrip – An AI-powered travel planner that creates personalized itineraries and travel plans.
• Kickresume – An AI-powered builder that helps you create professional resumes and cover letters quickly.
• Shortform – An AI tool that creates super-detailed summaries and analyses of non-fiction books.
• Chat with data – A Google Sheets add-on to chat with your data and get insights without writing any formulas.
• Parea AI – A development platform for debugging, testing, and monitoring LLM applications.

Sponsors:

• Runway – offers a complete toolkit for bringing your ideas to life with AI.
• AE Studio – provides an on-demand team of AI experts from leading companies to help you build and integrate custom AI solutions.
• Intel – offers the oneAPI unified programming model to simplify cross-architecture development for AI and HPC workloads.
• Vultr – provides on-demand access to high-performance NVIDIA GPUs in 32 cloud data centers globally.
• Glean – offers an enterprise AI platform that connects and understands all your company’s knowledge to provide trustworthy answers.
• CodiumAI – provides an enterprise-grade AI coding assistant that offers robust security, advanced code quality features, and full customizability.
• Observe.AI – is a conversation intelligence platform that helps contact centers boost agent performance and automate quality assurance.
• Incogni – automates the process of contacting data brokers to remove your personal information from their databases.
• IntroLoo – is a tool that automates personalized outreach to VCs by leveraging warm introductions from your LinkedIn network.