20 Shocking Tech News and Updates This Week In August

Here are the top 20 shocking technology news, updates, developments, and trending AI tools you missed this week in August:

This Week’s Tech Updates and AI News

1. Google is launching its try-on shopping tool in the United States. With AI, users can now try on different styles and clothes.
   
   
2. The Boring Company is building an underground transportation loop in Tennessee.
   
   
3. Google is adding Video Overviews to NotebookLM, a visual alternative to Audio Overviews.
   
   
4. Cash App has launched pools for group payments, making it easier than ever to pool money together.
   
   
5. Grok got a new update, featuring app connections and automation.
   
   
6. ChatGPT: According to Sam Altman, your ChatGPT conversations aren’t legally covered and could be used against you in court.
   
   
7. Samsung Electronics made a $16.5 billion deal with Elon Musk to supply semiconductors to Tesla.
   
   
8. Tea, a women’s dating app, reported that 72,000 images were exposed in a cyberattack.
   
   
9. Tesla’s Model 3 hit 3 million global sales, which equates to about one Model 3 purchase every 90 seconds.
   
   
10. Anthropic: According to Bloomberg, Anthropic is about to be worth $170 billion.
    
    
11. ChatGPT is releasing Study Mode to all users.
    
    
12. LMArena AI introduced Video Arena, which helps you generate videos using the top AI models.
    
    
13. Microsoft reported making $76.4 billion in revenue in its FY25 Q4 earnings release.
    
    
14. Google Chrome launched AI-generated store summaries to assist users with shopping.
    
    
15. Showrunner, the Netflix of AI, raised rounds from Amazon and more, aiming to change how AI storytelling is done.
    
    
16. Google DeepMind launched its new AI model, Alpha Earth Foundations, to help map the planet in astonishing detail.
    
    
17. YouTube launched an investigation following user reports experiencing metric errors on newly uploaded videos.
    
    
18. Anthropic announced that Claude can now update your NotionHQ and Linear tickets through MCP.
    
    
19. Elon Musk posted on X that Grok Heavy subscribers get priority access to Grok beta releases for other products.
    
    
20. Mark Zuckerberg announced his vision for the future of personal super-intelligence – the goal is to provide AI companions that empower individuals through wearable devices.
    
    

This Week’s Trending AI Tools

• JustDone – an AI-powered platform offering tools for content creation, writing, SEO, and plagiarism checking.
  
  
• Salient – a financial tech platform that uses AI to automate loan servicing tasks.
  
  
• Viggle – an AI-powered animation platform that turns images into character-animated videos.
  
  
• Opendream – transforms text prompts into high-quality images, logos, and digital art.
  
  
• Sintra –  offers 12 personalized AI assistants, trained on advanced models to automate business tasks like marketing, customer support, and social media management.
  
  
• Anybiz – uses AI to outbound sales by sending smart cold emails that book meetings for B2B businesses.
  
  
• Imagine Art – a web-based AI creative platform that turns your text prompts into visuals.
  
  
• Showrunner – enables users to create animated TV episodes using generative AI.
  
  
• Surge – provides a powerful data labeling platform for NLP to create high-quality datasets for training AI models.
  
  

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