🧰YouTube’s AI Toolkit For Creators

PLUS: Meta’s Next Big AI Accessory Leaked

September 17, 2025

Reading time: 5 minutes

🗞️In this edition

  • YouTube rolls out new AI creator tools

  • Workflow Wednesday #37 ‘AI Data and Insights’

  • Meta prepares next wave of smart glasses

  • In other AI news –

    • Gemini overtakes ChatGPT with 12.6M September downloads

    • OpenAI adds stricter guardrails for ChatGPT teen users

    • Google unveils protocol for AI-powered shopping agents

    • 4 must-try AI tools

Image Source: Google Images

♨️News – YouTube has introduced a new set of AI features designed to help creators manage the work that happens behind the scenes of content creation. Announced at its Made on YouTube event in New York, the tools range from analytics support to title and thumbnail testing, giving creators more direct guidance on how to grow their audience.

👨‍💻Fast facts –

  • Ask Studio is a new AI chatbot that pulls in data from across a channel to answer questions, summarize comments, and suggest video ideas.

  • A title and thumbnail A/B testing feature shows which combination drives more watch time.

  • Auto-dubbing now matches lip movements with translated audio, with a badge indicating AI use.

  • A collaboration option lets multiple creators post the same video and view shared performance metrics.

🤓OpenTools POV –  By offering built-in optimization tools, YouTube is shaping not just how creators work but also what they produce. The challenge will be keeping creativity distinct when everyone has access to the same AI playbook.

Do you like the new OpenTools Newsletter Format?

Login or Subscribe to participate in polls.

This Week in Workflow Wednesday #37: AI Data and Insights

(Sponsored) Workflow 1: Automate Every Essential Finance Task with Your Personal AI CFO – Nume.ai

Founders juggle dozens of finance tasks, daily cash monitoring, monthly closes, quarterly forecasts. Miss one, and you’re flying blind. Hire a CFO too early, and you’re burning cash.

Step 1: Let Nume Create Your Personalized CFO Plan

  • Connect your accounting system and bank account and share key business details (stage, industry, revenue model, team size, growth goals)

  • Nume analyzes your setup and suggests a tailored task schedule based on your specific business needs like daily cash reports, weekly follow-up on overdue debtors, creation of monthly management accounts and much more

Step 2: Customize Your AI CFO's Focus Areas

Image Source: Google Images

☕News – Meta’s Connect conference this week is expected to showcase its next generation of smart glasses. The spotlight will be on new Ray-Ban and Oakley models, along with a pair of glasses featuring gesture-based controls, AI upgrades, and some talk about the metaverse.

  • A new model, codenamed Hypernova, will reportedly include a small display in the lens controlled through a wristband using sEMG technology from CTRL-Labs.

  • The glasses are expected to be priced around $800 and may be bulkier than earlier designs.

  • A leaked video showed branding for “Meta | Ray-Ban Display” and new wraparound Oakley “Sphaera” glasses with a camera.

  • Meta is rumored to unveil third-generation Ray-Ban Metas after selling more than 2 million pairs so far.

  • While no new Quest headset is planned this year, Meta is working with partners like Asus and Lenovo on Horizon OS-powered devices.

🤓OpenTools POV – Meta sees smart glasses as the next big step in how people interact with technology. Connect will be a test of whether these devices can move beyond early adopters and into the mainstream. 

  • Gemini overtakes ChatGPT on App Store, as its Nano Banana AI model drives downloads up 45% // The app has climbed to the top of global app stores’ charts and has seen a 45% month-over-month increase in downloads in the month of September so far; Though the month is only half over, Gemini’s app has already gained 12.6 million downloads in September, up from 8.7 million in August

  • OpenAI will apply new restrictions to ChatGPT users under 18 // Under the new policy, ChatGPT will be trained to no longer engage in “flirtatious talk” with underage users, and additional guardrails will be placed around discussions of suicide; “We prioritize safety ahead of privacy and freedom for teens,” the post reads. “This is a new and powerful technology, and we believe minors need significant protection”

  • Google launches new protocol for agent-driven purchases // Called the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), the system is meant to be interoperable between AI platforms, payment systems and vendors, providing a traceable paper trail for each transaction; The protocol is built for a future in which AI agents routinely shop for products on customers’ behalf, and engage in complex real-time interactions with retailers’ AI agents

  1. AtFirst - Offers daily affirmations to guide and empower users on their journey of self-discovery

  2. MagicSchool.ai - Designed to assist educators in various tasks, such as lesson planning, differentiating instruction

  3. Abridge - Helps doctors and patients improve their healthcare conversations

  4. Homestyler - Offers a range of tools and features for interior design, home renovation, and real estate

How likely is it that you would recommend the OpenTools' newsletter to a friend or colleague?

Login or Subscribe to participate in polls.

Interested in featuring your services with us? Email us at [email protected]