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🌟 Today’s Highlights:
X is rolling out 4K video uploads
Pinterest is increasing its AI transparency with new tools
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📊 Stat of the Day: Creator jobs grew 7.5x in four years from 200k in 2020 to 1.5M in 2024. (Source: Interactive Advertising Bureau)
💡 Today’s Insight: Top 9 AI Image Generators of 2025
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💡 Today’s Insight 💡
🗞 TL;DR - AI image generators can be a huge time saver and resource optimizer for small content teams (or teams who are doing even more than just content). Lucky for you, Buffer tested out all the latest AI image generators to find the top tools to help you get to work.
💡 Insight - Here’s Buffer’s top 5 AI image generator picks (and their specialties)…
Best copyright-safe AI image generator: Adobe Firefly
Best free AI image generator: Gemini
Best AI image generator for complete beginners: Meta AI
Best AI image generator for designers: Recraft
Best AI image generator for sticking to prompts: Reve Image
For the full list including the best generator for artistic images, check out Buffer’s blog post here.
⚡️ Today’s Headlines ⚡️
🎥 X is rolling out support for 4K video uploads. Until now, X Premium subscribers could upload 1080p videos up to 8GB in size and roughly 3hrs in length. This update aims to keep users from leaving to YouTube or Vimeo to watch videos.
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🫥 Pinterest is launching new tools to make AI use transparent. The new features include Gen AI labels on content that is AI-generated or modified and user controls to show less AI content in feeds.
🎥 We break down The 1 Change Loom Made to become a household name & exit for 9 figures in this week's podcast on YouTube, Spotify, & Apple
🤷 TikTok’s ‘Friends’ tab isn’t really used. According to the company, just about 1% of users’ time spent on TikTok is in the Friends tab. Similarly, only a small percentage of users upload their contact lists to the app.
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