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 unveils “Apple Intelligence” AI platform – Apple unveiled its long-awaited AI strategy, “Apple Intelligence,” which integrates generative AI deeply into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia with a focus on privacy and on-device processing.
• Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices over OpenAI integration – Elon Musk threatened to ban Apple devices from his companies if Apple integrates OpenAI at the operating system level, calling it an “unacceptable security violation.”
• OpenAI hires former Nextdoor CEO as CFO and new Chief Product Officer – OpenAI has appointed Sarah Friar, former CEO of Nextdoor, as its first Chief Financial Officer and Kevin Weil, former President of Product at Planet Labs, as its Chief Product Officer.
• Luma Labs launches text-to-video model Dream Machine – Luma Labs has launched Dream Machine, a new text-to-video model capable of generating high-quality, realistic 5-second video clips from simple text prompts.
• Perplexity launches Pages to turn search results into articles – AI search engine Perplexity has launched Pages, a new feature that automatically generates shareable, well-structured articles on any topic from user prompts.
• Inflection makes its Inflection-2.5 model available via API – Inflection AI has made its Inflection-2.5 large language model available through an API, offering performance comparable to GPT-4 for a fraction of the cost.
• Scale AI raises $1 billion at a $13.8 billion valuation – Data labeling and evaluation company Scale AI confirmed it has raised $1 billion in a new funding round, nearly doubling its valuation to $13.8 billion.
• Raspberry Pi shares surge over 30% in London IPO – Raspberry Pi’s stock jumped over 30% in its London Stock Exchange debut after the company raised $166 million in its initial public offering.
• xAI to build world’s largest supercomputer in Memphis – Elon Musk’s xAI plans to build the world’s largest supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee, in what would be the city’s largest-ever capital investment.
• Google introduces Med-Gemini, a new family of specialized medical AI models – Google introduced Med-Gemini, a new family of highly capable multimodal models specialized for medicine that demonstrates expert-level performance on various medical benchmarks.
• AI helps discover a new class of antibiotics to fight MRSA superbug – Scientists have utilized a deep-learning model to discover a new class of compounds that can kill methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a notorious drug-resistant bacterium.
• Mistral AI expands in the US with new partnerships and team – Mistral AI is expanding its reach in the US market through new distribution partnerships with Snowflake and Databricks, along with establishing a new US-based team.
• Klarna’s AI assistant handles 2/3 of customer service chats – Klarna’s AI assistant now manages two-thirds of all customer service chats, equivalent to the work of 700 full-time agents, and is projected to deliver a $40 million profit improvement.
• Chinese AI leader Zhipu reportedly nearing new funding at $3.5B valuation – Chinese startup Zhipu AI is reportedly close to securing new funding at a valuation of around $3.5 billion, solidifying its position as a leading OpenAI rival in China.
• Character.AI introduces feature to create custom AI voices from audio samples – Character.AI has introduced a new voice creation feature that allows users to generate custom voices for their AI characters from a 10-second audio sample.
• Legal AI startup Harvey launches tool to analyze large document caches – Legal AI startup Harvey has launched a new “Case Work” feature that allows lawyers to upload and analyze hundreds of thousands of documents to find key evidence and information.
• Survey shows 75% of animation workers fear AI will threaten their jobs – A survey by The Animation Guild reveals that nearly three-quarters of animation professionals are anxious about generative AI threatening their job security.
• Snowflake unveils new enterprise AI and data management tools – Snowflake unveiled a suite of new tools, including the Polaris Catalog and Cortex AI enhancements, to help enterprises build and manage AI applications using their own data.
• AI cloud provider CoreWeave offers to buy Bitcoin miner Core Scientific for $1.6B – AI cloud computing provider CoreWeave has made a $1.6 billion all-cash offer to acquire Bitcoin miner Core Scientific to repurpose its infrastructure for AI.
• Glean launches platform for employees to build custom AI agents – AI-powered work assistant Glean has introduced new platform capabilities that enable employees without technical skills to build custom AI agents and automate business processes.
• Stability AI’s new CEOs reaffirm commitment to open-source development – Stability AI’s new co-CEOs affirmed the company’s commitment to open and multi-modal AI development in their first public statement since taking over.
• SEC Chair Gary Gensler warns companies against “AI washing” – SEC Chair Gary Gensler cautioned companies against misleading investors with exaggerated claims about their AI capabilities, a practice known as “AI washing.”
• Saudi Arabia plans to create a $40 billion fund for AI investments – Saudi Arabia is in discussions with venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and others to create a massive $40 billion fund dedicated to investing in artificial intelligence technologies.
• UK autonomous driving startup Wayve raises $1.05 billion – UK-based autonomous driving startup Wayve secured $1.05 billion in a Series C funding round led by SoftBank to develop its “embodied AI” for self-driving cars.
• Microsoft opens its first cloud data center region in Spain – Microsoft has launched its first cloud data center region in Spain, committing $2.1 billion to boost AI and cloud adoption in the country.
• Figure signs deal with BMW to deploy humanoid robots in manufacturing – Figure AI has signed a commercial agreement with BMW Manufacturing to deploy its general-purpose humanoid robots in automotive production environments.
• LinkedIn introduces new AI-powered coaching for job applications – LinkedIn is introducing new AI-powered features, including coaching for job applications and learning content, to help professionals adapt to the AI-driven workplace.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Dream Machine – A new text-to-video generation model capable of creating high-quality, realistic 5-second video clips from prompts.
• Suno – An AI music and song creation tool that generates unique songs, including vocals, from simple text prompts.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered “answer engine” that provides direct, conversational answers to questions with cited sources.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s flagship conversational AI used for a wide range of tasks from writing and coding to general Q&A.
• Microsoft Copilot – Microsoft’s AI assistant integrated across its products to help with coding, writing, searching, and other tasks.
• Gemini – Google’s powerful multimodal AI model that underpins its various AI tools and services.
• Udio – An AI music generation tool that creates high-quality, full-length songs with vocals from text prompts.
• Claude – A conversational AI assistant from Anthropic known for its large context window and focus on safety.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator renowned for creating highly artistic and stylized visuals from text prompts.
• Pika – An AI platform for generating and editing videos from text, images, or other video clips.
• Runway – A comprehensive suite of AI-powered creative tools for advanced video editing, generation, and special effects.
• Krea – An AI tool offering real-time image and video generation and upscaling capabilities.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice generation platform for creating realistic text-to-speech audio and voice clones.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool that quickly creates polished presentations, documents, and webpages from simple text inputs.
• HeyGen – An AI video generation platform that creates professional videos with realistic avatars and voiceovers.
• Notion – An all-in-one workspace that integrates AI features for summarizing, writing, and organizing information.
• Leonardo AI – An AI platform for generating high-quality game assets, concept art, and other visual content.
• Poe – A platform by Quora that allows users to interact with a variety of different AI chatbots and foundation models.
• Arc Search – A mobile browser that uses AI to read websites and generate a custom summary page to answer your search query.
• Sieve – An AI-powered video understanding platform that can search, classify, and extract information from large volumes of video content.
• Genspark – A new AI-native search engine that generates custom ‘Sparks’ or summary pages in response to user queries.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A no-code platform that allows users to create, host, and manage their own fine-tuned AI models.
• Defog.ai – An AI tool that connects to your database and generates SQL queries and reports from plain English questions.
• Visual Electric – An AI image generator designed to create fresh, visually interesting, and artistic images from text prompts.
• Tavily AI – An AI search API optimized for large language models, providing real-time, accurate, and citation-backed information for AI agents.
• Sidekick – An AI-powered meeting assistant that can join, record, transcribe, and summarize your online meetings.
• Fireflies.ai – An AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and analyzes your voice conversations.
• Looka – An AI-powered platform that helps you design a professional logo and build a complete brand identity.
• Recast – An AI tool that transforms long-form articles into concise, shareable audio summaries.
• DiffusionHub.io – A platform offering a user-friendly interface to run various open-source AI models like Stable Diffusion for image generation.
• Erase.bg – A free AI-powered tool that automatically removes backgrounds from images in seconds.
• Stelo – A Chrome extension that simulates phishing attacks to help train users to identify and avoid security threats.

Sponsors:

• FourthBrain – A blog post discussing the transformative potential of generative AI in healthcare, from drug discovery to personalized medicine.
• guidde – A tool that helps teams create video documentation and how-to guides with AI in seconds.
• Stripe – Stripe Sessions offers on-demand content about new products, partner solutions, and insights for growing your business.
• Basis – Basis provides secure access to your business’s most sensitive data with AI-powered data controls.
• Notion – Notion AI helps you work faster, write better, and think bigger right inside your Notion workspace.
• ClickUp – A project management tool to centralize your workflow, enhance team productivity, and manage tasks with its AI-powered assistant.
• Spline – A 3D design tool that allows for the creation of interactive web experiences, 3D animations, and models.
• NetSuite – A guide by NetSuite discussing the seven KPIs every business leader needs to know to manage their business effectively.
• AE Studio – AE Studio provides insights from founders, executives, and investors on how they build and scale their companies.
• Midjourney – A tool that can generate high-quality images from text descriptions.
• Runway – An applied AI research company shaping the next era of art, entertainment and human creativity.
• Adept – An AI research and product lab building general intelligence that enables humans and computers to work together creatively.
• WonderTools – A newsletter that finds the best AI tools and presents them in a quick 3-minute read.
• Masterworks – A platform for investing in multi-million dollar paintings by artists like Banksy and Basquiat.