Trending Topics On Social Media and Google + Tech News: July 16
Here are the current trending topics on social media and Google, viral content ideas, and the latest tech news on July 16, 2025:
Trending Topics On Social Media and Content Ideas
- You Disappeared For 2 Years and Posted A Story is a popular content trend. Use a video of yourself from the past with text overlay saying, “You disappeared for 2 years and posted a story.” Then, transition to your present life, sharing clips of your success and transformations, paired with this audio.
- Wearing vs Styling is a popular trend among fashionistas. If your expertise revolves around the clothing industry, consider creating a side-by-side video showing the difference between styling and just wearing a piece of clothing. Use the vertical split-screen format and text overlay.
- This Is Your Sign… is a rising social media content trend. Post content about yourself doing something with text overlay, saying “This is your sign to {XYZ}”. For example: “This is your sign to purchase my course”. Use this trend to encourage your audience to take action.
- Meet-The-Team videos are blowing up on Instagram and TikTok, where startups and big companies introduce their teammates individually. Post a video with text overlay introducing each person and what they do, and ensure your transitions are smooth.
- Cold Calling on Video is a popular way to share what you can do with your audience. Share a video of yourself cold-calling a client on speakerphone to show your audience how you overcome closing objections and handle difficult sales situations live.
- Pretending To Help Look For… is a funny trend on TikTok. Post a video with text overlay “Pretending to help look for {XYZ}”, acting like you’re helping an employee or significant other find something, but in reality, you threw or hid that “thing” away.
Trending On Google Search Today
- Cal Raleigh is trending on Google, reaching 500,000+ searches in just 19 hours after he won the Home Run Derby.
- New Jersey Flooding is a trending Google query, with 200k+ searches in less than 24 hours after a devastating flash flood occurred, damaging subway stations, and leaving two dead.
- Emmy Nominations 2025 is trending on Google search, reaching 100k+ searches in just 8 hours after the Television Academy announced nominations for the 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards.
- MLB All-Star Game 2025 is trending on Google, reaching 20k+ searches in just 7 hours. People wonder when this event will occur and what to expect.
Current AI and Tech News
- OpenAI announced on X that it supports a new research paper on Chain of Thought (CoT), highlighting its focus on AI safety.
- Nvidia: After meeting with President Trump, Nvidia will resume selling H20 AI chips to China to ensure that America maintains the lead in AI worldwide.
- MP Materials partnered with Apple to make a $500 million deal to produce recycled rare earth magnets in the United States.
- Lucid announced that it added hands-free drive and lane change assist, taking bigger steps towards autonomous driving.
- Mistral has launched Voxtral, its first AI audio model.
Trending AI Tools
- Higgsfield – provides cinematic video generation with camera motion control for creators.
- Quack – an AI-powered platform designed to enhance collaborative software development with automation.
- Outlier – connects freelance experts to train and evaluate AI models.
- Viggle – an AI-powered tool that animates static images into dynamic videos.
- Humanize – rewrites AI-generated text to sound natural and human-like, bypassing AI detection.
- Claude – a conversational AI model and chatbot designed for natural language tasks.
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