Here are the latest AI updates, technology news, and business announcements in marketing on September 4, 2025:
Tech News and AI Developments
- Amazon introduced Lens Live, an AI-powered shopping tool that allows you to scan products instantly, compare matches, and add to cart without leaving the camera view.
- Google is strengthening its fight against online scams in APAC with a $5M fund from Google.org.
- NotebookLM is rolling out new audio overview formats.
- Starbucks rolled out AI-powered inventory counting across its North America coffeehouses.
- OpenAI acquired Statsig for $1.1B and named its founder, Vijaye Raji, CTO of Applications.
- Google launched AI for Energy: an accelerator to support 29 startups with mentorship and cloud resources.
- Instagram is officially coming to iPad.
- Apple has revealed plans to make an AI-powered web search tool for Siri to compete with Perplexity and OpenAI.
- OpenAI announced that projects in ChatGPT are now available to free users.
- NVIDIA partnered with Black Tech Street to train 10,000 learners and empower Tulsa’s community to lead the AI economy.
- Russell Brunson just launched OfferLab, a collaborative funnel platform that lets creators and affiliates collaborate on products and automatically split revenue.
Trending AI Tools
- C3 AI – provides enterprise AI software that helps organizations build and deploy scalable AI applications across industries.
- MagicLight – turns text prompts into character-driven animated videos with voice and lip-sync.
- Jars AI – lets you instantly turn your script or idea into an interactive 3D “text-to-show” episode, complete with custom characters and shared community worlds.
- Domo AI – turns videos, text, and images into stylized animated videos with lip-sync and creative flair.
- AKOOL – a generative AI platform that creates avatar videos, face swaps, image-to-video content, real-time translations, and virtual avatars for marketing and multimedia.
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