Hey Tribe, Let’s be honest: Recording a video is fun. Editing it is painful. I was spending way too much time hunting for "umms," "ahhs," and long silences in my timeline. So, I decided to build a solution that allows me to edit video just like I’m editing a Google Doc. It’s called Tribe Video Cleaner, and I’m giving it to you today for free. What it does: - Transcribes your video using OpenAI Whisper or ElevenLabs. - Auto-detects filler words, silences, and double takes. - Cleans your video in one click—no timeline scrubbing required. I’ve put together a full walkthrough on YouTube showing exactly how I built it and how you can use it to save hours this week. 📺 Watch the Walkthrough: https://youtu.be/u_kfo-XVc_Y If you’re a developer or want to run it locally, you can grab the code on GitHub below. (If this helps you, please leave a ⭐ on the repo—it helps me know I should keep building tools like this!) 🚀 Get the Tool on GitHub: https://github.com/grafup/Tribe-Video-Cleaner Stop editing. Start creating.

Heads up if you or your clients use Instagram for brand work. Meta flipped on a new AI image generator that pulls from your public Instagram photos by default, and the opt out is buried in settings. Privacy groups are already calling it out, and SAG-AFTRA just told members to turn it off and protect their likeness. The flip side is that your photos, your style, and yes, your face can end up in AI generated images you never approved. Worth a five minute check today. Open Instagram, hunt down the new AI settings, and opt out for any account you do not want feeding the machine.

OpenAI just rolled out GPT-5.6 along with a new tool called ChatGPT Work, and this one actually matters if you run a business. The new model is roughly 54% more efficient on agent tasks, which means it can chew through longer workflows without burning through your token budget. The Work agent is the bigger story though. It is built to sit in the background and handle multi-step jobs across your docs, browser, and apps for hours, not minutes. Think of it like a junior ops person you can hand a messy project to at 9am and check back in on by lunch. If you have been waiting for a sign that AI agents are ready for real small business use, this is probably it.

Gemini just landed in the Chrome sidebar for everyone, not only paid AI users. You can now summarize any page, ask questions about what you are reading, or draft an email without leaving the tab. It also pulls context from the page itself, so prompts are not starting from zero. For anyone building on top of AI workflows, this is a major distribution event. Google just put an assistant in front of roughly three billion Chrome users by default, and you do not need an account to use it.

xAI released the base weights for Grok 3 and put them on Hugging Face for free download. Most frontier labs keep the big models locked up. xAI is going the other way and betting that open weights win the developer mindshare race. If you have been waiting to run a real frontier model on your own hardware, this is the moment. Pull the weights, load them in your stack of choice, and start tinkering this weekend.