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Oct 16, 2025

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.
Short. Smart. Addictive.

Let’s dive in.👇

Quick Hits

1. Meta Breaks Ground on New AI Data Center Project
   (When your data is the product, infrastructure is marketing.)

2. Google’s John Mueller Flags SEO Issues In Vibe Coded Website
   (Even “vibe” needs structure if you want traffic that converts.)

3. VSCO gets AI editing chops, support for RAW files
   (From filters to full-on creative suites)

The Growth joke of the day

Setting high SEO expectations
is like hoping to find a unicorn in your backyard by sunrise:
unrealistic and imaginary. 🥲

3-Minute News Bulletin
with Growth Hackers

This week's 🙌 News Bulletin explores:
AI Innovations Transform Consumer Tech, Marketing, and Online Search

🚀 This Week in Growth: AI Redefines Creativity and Control

From Miro and Adobe Firefly Boards to Midjourney, creative collaboration goes fully AI-powered turning static mood boards into dynamic idea engines. Meanwhile, OpenAI and Broadcom team up to build next-gen AI chips through 2029, setting a new bar for performance and sustainability.

Instagram tightens safety controls for teens, SpaceX launches its own fire department, and Google Lighthouse 13 delivers sharper, insight-driven SEO audits. A Yale study eases job loss fears in marketing, even as unencrypted satellite data raises fresh security concerns.

💡 Innovation is speeding up but trust and safety remain the real growth advantage.

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• Apple adds 650 megawatts of renewables in Europe with more coming in China

  Apple contracts for 650 MW of renewable energy projects in Europe and invests $150M to switch Chinese suppliers to renewables, partly to offset customer-related emissions and accelerate data center growth. Highlights the intersection of sustainability, operational resilience, and brand positioning in global expansion.

• Threads Adds Group Chats, Expands DMs to Europe

  Threads introduces group chats (up to 50 members) and expands DMs into Europe, increasing the app's utility for private communities, engagement, and competitive positioning vs. X, as messaging becomes central to growth and retention strategies.

• Google Says It Surfaces More Video, Forums, And UGC

  In a WSJ interview, Google’s VP of Search Liz Reid says ranking has been adjusted to surface more short-form video, forums, and UGC.

• ChatGPT performs a search in 31% of prompts, new data reveals
  ChatGPT performs a search in nearly one-third of prompts and averages more than two searches per query, each about 5.5 words long (roughly 60% longer than the typical Google search), according to a new study from marketing agency Nectiv.

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People

• Co-founder of Indian social network Koo releases a new photo sharing app

  In the last few years, photo-sharing apps have capitalized on the idea that Instagram has become too curated, creating spaces for users to share unfiltered photos from their camera rolls. Locket tapped into lockscreen-based sharing, Retro took a photo journaling route, and Yope is building Instagram for private groups.

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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

• Liberate bags $50M at $300M valuation to bring AI deeper into insurance back offices

  Liberate, an AI startup, raised $50M to expand its automation tools for insurance back offices, including voice AI for sales/claims and agentic task orchestration. They report increases in sales, reductions in costs, and rapid scaling in AI deployments, reflecting a significant trend in vertical AI for operational growth.

• Anthropic launches new version of scaled-down ‘Haiku’ model

  Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5, the newest version of its smallest model, billed as offering similar performance to Sonnet 4 “at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed,” per a company blog post.

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