What's trending in AI right now, from the app charts to the community feeds. Real links, our take.
Video creation apps are all rising at once
In the Photo and Video category, Runway moved up two spots this week and Movia AI jumped six, with Creati climbing five in Graphics and Design. Several AI video apps rising in the same week is unusual; usually one or two stand out. Movia focuses on a single thing: turning a still photo into a short animated clip, which explains why it keeps showing up in social media recommendations. Runway is the more professional option, aimed at creators who want precise control over generated footage. The combined chart movement suggests AI video on mobile is reaching a much broader audience.
ChatGPT's ad business hit $1 billion in under 200 days
OpenAI confirmed this week that ChatGPT's advertising operation has hit a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate, reaching the milestone in roughly 200 days from the first ad test in February. The ads are clearly labeled and appear only to free-tier users, and OpenAI says they do not affect ChatGPT's responses. The company is targeting $2.3 billion in ad revenue for the full year. If you use ChatGPT on the free tier, the ads are the reason that tier still exists.
Twitch quietly signed every streamer up for Amazon AI training
Twitch rolled out a privacy setting that automatically opted every streamer in to having their content used to train Amazon's generative AI models, then added an opt-out after creators pushed back, as Engadget explains. The setting covers VODs, live streams, and public chat messages. You can disable it in Settings under Security and Privacy. When asked why the setting was not opt-in from the start, Twitch's Chief Product Officer was direct: "If it was opt in, nobody would opt in." If you stream on Twitch and want to change this, the toggle is easy to find.
Anthropic's "25% increase" to Claude limits is actually a cut
Anthropic announced on August 30 that Claude Code's weekly usage limits would permanently rise by 25 percent starting September 14. Bleeping Computer ran the numbers: users have been on a temporary 50 percent boost since May, so the new permanent baseline is 17 percent lower than what people are getting right now. Anthropic later acknowledged the framing was confusing and confirmed that users will see "a 17% reduction in weekly limits." If you use Claude Code heavily, expect less headroom starting on the 14th.
AI note-takers are climbing as school starts
Coconote, an AI note-taking app from Quizlet, jumped ten spots in the Education category this week. The app records lectures or uploaded audio and automatically generates summaries, flashcards, and quizzes from the content. You can also search and chat with your notes across an entire semester's worth of recordings. Ten spots in a single week is a large move for an already-established app. The timing is straightforward: school is back in session in the US, and students looking for lecture-recording tools are finding it in the charts.