Tech News, Marketing Trends, and Google Searches: July 3, 2025

Here are the latest business and tech news, current digital marketing trends, and trending Google searches on July 2, 2025:

ATTENTION! by Kesha is a trending audio on Instagram that creators use in the fitness niche, posting clips of themselves working out, giving fat loss tips, hitting poses, etc.
You Look Happier is an exploding content trend on TikTok, where content creators post videos of themselves being happy, with the text “you look happier” and XYZ under it, sharing their opinions, thoughts, and things that make them happy.
Something To Take The Edge Off is a funny social media trend. To ride this trend, create a video clip holding a branded item or product between your fingers (mimicking the gesture of holding a cigarette), add the caption “something to take the edge off” to the video, and use the soundtrack Deep In It by Berlioz.
#Olandria is a trending topic on TikTok with over 30k posts in the last 7 days. Content creators post clips about Love Island, sharing their thoughts and reactions about the show and its characters.
Diesel / Over by YoungBoy Never Broke Again is going viral on YouTube Music, reaching over 1 million views in less than 20 hours.
Illegal by Pink Pantheress is a trending audio on Instagram with 45k reels and growing. This audio fits the content trend where creators post clips of themselves greeting someone, with a funny text over the video.

Diddy is currently trending on Google, with over 1 million searches within 3 hours of the news of his trial coming out. People on social media are posting clips of their reactions and thoughts.
Juniper is a trending Google search query, hitting 100k+ searches in 13 hours. People are looking up news about the wildfire in Los Angeles.
Perfect Dark is an exploding topic with over 5k+ searches in less than an hour because Microsoft is canceling Perfect Dark and shutting down Everwild games.
Del Monte is trending on Google, as the 138-year-old grocery store is filing for bankruptcy, sparking curiosity and breaking headlines.
Microsoft Layoffs is a trending topic with over 20K+ searches in the past 5 hours. Microsoft broke headlines after announcing that it will cut 9,000 employees, the largest tech company cut since 2023.

Current Business Updates and Tech News

Perplexity launched the Perplexity Max plan at $200/ month. It includes unlimited Labs, early access to Comet (their new browser), advanced model options, and priority support.
TikTok: According to Bloomberg, TikTok is laying off more employees working on TikTok Shop US because it is not performing well.
Terra CO2 cemented $124 million in Series B Funding to slash concrete’s carbon footprint (pun intended).
Microsoft announced that it will lay off 9,000 employees in the latest round of cuts.
Rivian received $1 billion from Volkswagen Group. Per SEC filings, the investment is part of the $5.8 billion agreement associated with the Rivian and Volkswagen Group technology joint venture.
Qantas, an Australian airline, announced that it experienced a data breach involving the personal information of at least 6 million passengers.

Cline – an open-source, AI-powered coding assistant designed to automate complex software development tasks.
Figma – offers a suite of tools for streamlining workflows for designers.
Gamma – an AI-powered platform that creates presentations, websites, and documents from text prompts.
Cursor – an AI-powered code editor built on VS Code, designed to enhance developer productivity.
Cosine – an autonomous AI software engineer that mimics human reasoning by handling complex coding tasks.
Midjourney – a generative AI tool that creates high-quality videos and images from text prompts.