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Stop overthinking content. These tools make it stupid simple.

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Emerging Ideas

May 9, 2025

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This is your corner of the internet for trends, tools, and ideas that’ll make you sound smarter and build faster ⚡️
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Here’s what we’re unpacking today:

🎶 AI Just Dropped a Beat

A new music creation tool hit the scene, and it’s wild. Think Spotify meets Soundcloud, but your brain is the producer. No piano lessons needed.

📽️ Text-to-Video Is Here (and it’s insane)

Type a sentence, get a cinematic ad. This tool is so good, it might just put your video editor on permanent vacation.
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🐦 Tweet of the Week

This one’s for the tech-curious: a spicy hot take that proves why most people are sleeping on Grok (yes, Grok).

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🔥 New Tool Drop: Suno A.I. is Making Noise (Literally) 🎶
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Alright, this one’s crazy…
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​Suno A.I., the music-making machine that’s been quietly leveling up in the background, just dropped version 4.5 — and it’s wild. Like, “wait, I just made a legit banger in 60 seconds” wild.
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Best part? Totally free to sign up and start creating.​
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Suno’s goal? Simple but ambitious:
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“If you’ve got imagination, you’ve got music.”
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🎤 Whether you’re a Grammy winner or just someone who freestyles in traffic, this tool breaks down all the barriers. No instruments. No studio. Just you, some words, and boom — you’ve got a track.

⚠️ Warning: highly addictive. I went in just to test it…

Ended up with a mini hip hop EP. 😂

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👇 Check out a few of my AI-made tracks below — you can probably guess I’m a big hip hop fan.

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🎥 New Tool Alert: Gemini’s Text-to-Video Tool Is WILD 🧠➡️📹

Google Gemini just dropped its text-to-video feature and holy 🤯 — it’s perfect for anyone who needs content fast (read: all of us).

It’s stupid simple.

You type what you want. It spits out a full-blown video. No crew, no camera, no editing team.
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Here’s what I tried:

🦴 “A dog running through his yard with the sprinklers going off and the sun setting.”

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👉 [Watch the magic here]

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Then I went full Mad Men:

📱 “Make a video for a new cell phone company of a fancy man walking the streets of New York during a sunny day.”

👉 [See it here]

💡 Use it for:

  • Running ads without hiring a crew
  • Social media posts that actually get views
  • Bringing your product, idea, or wild thought to life in seconds
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Gemini’s leveling the content game. You’re either using it, or falling behind.

🐦 Tweets of the Week: Hidden AI Gem Edition 💎

Not a lot of people are using Grok right now… but they should be. It’s just as powerful — maybe even spicier — than ChatGPT.

Here are a few 🔥 prompts to get you started 👇

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Hey, I’m Michael Benatar—founder & CEO of Benatar Brands. We’re on a mission to help you work smarter, not harder, by building AI tools that feel like a personal assistant for your day-to-day

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