Latest AI Developments and 4 Viral Content Ideas Entering August

Here are the latest AI developments, tech news, and the top 4 viral content ideas to implement going into August 2025:

MONTAGEM BRAVO by djzxkai (Slowed) is a popular social media song. Pair this song with success or shocking content, like buying a Porsche GT3RS or showing how much you make monthly. Every time the beat drops, pause the clip and add the skull emoji “💀”.
How It Started… is a viral social media trend. Post a video of yourself in the past with the text overlay “How it started”, sharing clips of you starting your business, getting laughed at, etc. Then cut it to your current success state with the text overlay “How it’s going”.
Throwback To When… is a rising TikTok trend. Post a video with the text overlay “Throwback to when {XYZ}”, sharing a funny or embarrassing moment in your life, or something that happened with your business.
XYZ Is About To Change Forever (And Nobody Even Realizes It) is a viral long-form YouTube video trend. Post a video with a text overlay like “Fitness is about to change forever (and nobody even realizes it)” or “Marketing is about to change forever (and nobody even realizes it)”.

Hawaii Tsunami is a trending Google query, with over 10 million searches in less than 24 hours after a magnitude 8.7 earthquake near Russia, issuing a Tsunami warning to surrounding regions.
Shannon Sharpe is trending on Google, reaching 100,000+ searches in just 4 hours after he was dropped by ESPN after settling his sexual assault and battery lawsuit.
Meta Stock is a trending Google query, reaching over 100,000 searches in just 3 hours after Meta released its Q2 earnings report.
Fed Rate Decision is trending on Google, with over 100k searches in just 11 hours, after the Fed decided to keep the interest rates unchanged.

Current Technology News and Updates

ChatGPT is releasing Study Mode to all users.
Muskonomy reported that Grok Imagine will be live next month, and that it will train on 110,000 GB200s.
Anthropic: According to Bloomberg, Anthropic is about to be worth $170 billion.
LMArena AI introduced Video Arena, which helps you generate videos using the top AI models.
Microsoft reported making $76.4 billion in revenue in its FY25 Q4 earnings release.
Elon Musk posted on X that Grok Heavy subscribers get priority access to Grok beta releases for other products.

Showrunner – enables users to create animated TV episodes using generative AI.
Quack AI – streamlines collaborative software development by providing an AI VSCode extension.
Opendream – transforms text prompts into high-quality images, logos, and digital art.
Surge – provides a powerful data labeling platform for NLP to create high-quality datasets for training AI models.
Blaze – generates blog posts, social media content, etc, streamlining content creation for businesses and marketers.