not much happened today + AINews Podcast?

**Glean** doubled its valuation again. **Dan Hendrycks' Superforecaster AI** generates plausible election forecasts with interesting prompt engineering. A **Stanford** study found that **LLM-generated research ideas** are statistically more novel than those by expert humans. **SambaNova** announced faster inference for **llama-3** models, surpassing **Cerebras**. **Benjamin Clavie** gave a notable talk on retrieval-augmented generation techniques. **Strawberry** is reported to launch in two weeks. **Google Illuminate** offers AI-generated podcast discussions about papers and books. **Apple** unveiled new AI features in iOS 18, including visual intelligence and improved Siri, with on-device and cloud processing for camera-based event additions. The **Reflection 70B** model sparked controversy over performance claims. Experts highlighted the unreliability of traditional benchmarks like MMLU and HumanEval, recommending alternative evaluation methods such as LMSys Chatbot Arena and Hugging Face's open-sourced **Lighteval** suite. The AI research community continues to explore AI's role in generating novel research ideas and improving benchmarking.