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April 10, 2026

Hello, GrowthHackers! 

Welcome to your daily unfair advantage.

Every morning, we cut through the noise to bring you sharp insights, fast news, and fresh sparks to light up your brain and fuel your hustle. From scrappy hacks to big tech moves, AI shifts to culture flips this is your intel to stay ahead, move fast, and break boring.

Think of it as your growth-fueled espresso shot.
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Let’s dive in.👇

Quick Hits

1. Meta AI app climbs to No. 5 on the App Store after Muse Spark launch
   (AI apps entering their top-chart era)

2. Google and Intel deepen AI infrastructure partnership
   (Behind every AI tool is a hardware strategy.)

3. As the highly anticipated Running Remote 2026 event approaches, we're excited to offer our community an exclusive discount.
   (Community perks hitting different.)

The Growth joke of the day

Why did the SEO expert start optimizing for AI instead of Google?
Because ranking #1 is cool… but being the answer is undefeated.

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• What 400 Sites Reveal About Organic Traffic Gains
  An analysis of more than 400 websites by Zyppy founder Cyrus Shepard identifies five characteristics associated with whether a site gained or lost estimated organic traffic over the past 12 months.

• Your Owned Content Is Losing To A Stranger’s Reddit Comment
  The next time you ask an AI what product to buy, which agency to hire, or which software platform actually works, pay attention to where the answer comes from. Increasingly, it does not come from the vendor’s own website.

• How to make AI work with context instead of prompts
  Artificial intelligence is at an inflection point. Over the past few years, enterprises have rushed to adopt large language models (LLMs), experimenting with prompts, copilots and chat interfaces. These early wins created excitement, but they also revealed a deeper truth: while AI can generate impressive outputs, it still struggles to operate reliably within the realities of an enterprise.

• Is Anthropic limiting the release of Mythos to protect the internet — or Anthropic?
  Anthropic said this week that it limited the release of its newest model, dubbed Mythos, because it is too capable of finding security exploits in software relied upon by users around the world.

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People

• Sierra’s Bret Taylor says the era of clicking buttons is over
  Bret Taylor, co-founder and CEO of Sierra, a startup that builds customer service AI agents for enterprises, is convinced that the way humans interact with software will change in the near future.

We are heading to Running Remote in Austin 🚀

The world’s #1 Conference for Flexible Work is taking over Austin, and the GrowthHackers community is moving in.

If you aren't in the room where the world’s top minds from HubSpot, Zapier, and Dropbox are rewriting the growth playbook, you’re already behind.

This isn't just about "working from home" it's about it’s about the rise of the Autonomous Professional. We’re exploring how the bridge between
AI and distributed teams is creating a massive competitive gap that traditional companies simply can't close.

• The GrowthHackers "Insider" Package:
  Instant Savings: We’ve secured a 25% OFF community-only discount. No public extensions. No hidden catches. Just pure value for our members.

• The Exclusive GrowthHackers Meetup: Beyond the main stages, join GrowthHacker's founders

• Theo Moulos & Effie Bersoux for a private GrowthHackers meetup. This is where the real networking happens.

Elite Intel: Learn the exact frameworks the world's most successful remote-first founders are using to scale in 2026.

🛑 Access is Limited

This offer is not public. Once these community-allocated slots are gone, the price jumps back up.

What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

• ChatGPT finally offers $100/month Pro plan
  OpenAI announced on Thursday something that power users have been asking for forever: a $100/month plan. Until now, plans were priced at: free (which now includes ads), an $8/month Go plan (that also includes ads), a $20/month Plus plan (ad free), and then all the way up to a $200 Pro plan (also ad free).

• OpenAI, Meta, ByteDance Lead AI Bot Traffic In Publishing
  Akamai breaks down which AI bots are hitting publishing, who operates them, and why fetcher bots may pose a more immediate risk.

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