Friday, July 24

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⚡️ Today’s Headlines ⚡️

🦾 Google’s Gemini is about to hit a billion users. The company revealed during its Q2 call that its AI assistant now has over 950 million monthly users having tripled from last year and grown from 750M monthly active users in February.

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⭐️ ChatGPT now has access to Yelp reviews, ratings, and photos. Yelp will feed real-time local data into ChatGPT, including reviews, photos, and quote requests with branded links back to its platform.

💡 Today’s Insight 💡

The 11 best AI video editors in 2026

🗞 TL;DR - If you’re looking to commit to regularly posting video content, you might be a perfect match for an AI video editor. These tools can make the process of going from a rough cut to a live polished product seamless and easy. Buffer tested 11 of them to compare and identify what each one is best for.

💡 Insight - Here are the top 11 AI video editors and what they’re best at:

• Vyra - For handing the whole edit to an AI and only opening the timeline when you want to

• Stanley Studio - The fastest way to get footage into an editor with a video that needs some last-mile editing

• Descript - For speech-heavy video and the clearest tool with an AI-enabled/AI-led overlap

• CapCut - The default choice when you want AI assists without leaving the editor you already know

• Canva - For ease of editing video inside the tool where your content already lives

• Adobe Express - If you’re already in the Adobe ecosystem

• Riverside - For podcasters and interviewers who want the AI editor living where the footage is recorded

• Veed AI - Browser-based editing that covers the whole job without a learning curve

• OpusClip - For turning one long video into several short-form videos

So, what’s Buffer’s top pick across the board? Well, it depends on whether you need an AI-enabled editor or fully AI-led. If it’s AI-enabled, CapCut and Veed will make you faster with a traditional process. AI-led editors like Vyra and Descript’s Underlord will implement edits in plain language. Decide how much of the edit you want to do yourself to help identify which tool is best for you.

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