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Mar 05, 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.
Short. Smart. Addictive.

Let’s dive in.👇

Quick Hits

1. Google Updates AI Mode Recipe Sites
   (Recipe SEO just got more competitive)

2. How Gemini in Gmail changes inbox visibility for marketers
   (Email marketers learning the Gemini rules.)

3. Amid new competition, Chrome speeds up its release schedule
   (Chrome entering its ‘move faster’ era)

The Growth joke of the day

Why did the marketer rewrite their recipe blog?
Because the AI already knew the ingredients…
but Google still wanted the structure.

3-Minute News Bulletin with Roxie

This week's 🙌 News Bulletin explores:
Apple Unveils Powerful New Chips as AI, Search, and Security Trends Reshape Tech.

This week’s News Bulletin explores how AI strategy, hardware innovation, and changing discovery behaviors are reshaping the digital landscape.

From building AI systems that deliver measurable growth to Apple’s powerful new M5 chips designed for creators and AI professionals, the momentum behind AI-driven productivity continues to accelerate. At the same time, discovery is shifting as TikTok increasingly becomes a search engine for consumers, while Google evolves how AI Overviews source and cite content.

The takeaway for marketers: growth now depends on strong AI strategy, multi-format visibility, and adapting quickly to new discovery channels.

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• Google Removes JavaScript SEO Warning, Says It’s Outdated
  Google’s JavaScript SEO guidance has gotten narrower over the past year. The company recently removed its JavaScript and accessibility recommendations from its JavaScript SEO basics documentation, saying the advice was “out of date and not as helpful as it used to be.”

• WordPress Releases AI Plugins For Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, And OpenAI
  WordPress has created three new plugins that make it easy to add OpenAI, Google Gemini, or Anthropic Claude integration for the PHP AI Client SDK. The plugins enable text, image, function calling and web search support.

• Snapchat report positions the app as a B2B marketing tool
  The angle Snapchat is pushing in a new report, which was created in partnership with GWI and incorporates feedback from more than 2,250 business decision-makers, entrepreneurs and small to medium-sized business owners.

• YouTube updates Payment Activity overview, provides more detailed data
  YouTube announced a change to its payment overviews in YouTube Studio, which will make it easier for creators to keep tabs on their YouTube payouts and better manage their AdSense intake across channels.

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People

• Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI
  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said his company’s recent investments in OpenAI and Anthropic are likely to be its last in both, saying that once they go public as anticipated later this year, the opportunity to invest closes.

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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

• Anthropic acquires computer-use AI startup Vercept after Meta poached one of its founders
  Anthropic on Wednesday announced that it has acquired Vercept, an AI startup with deep roots to some of the biggest names in Seattle’s tech scene. The acquisition marks the latest after Anthropic acquired coding agent engine Bun in December to help scale Claude Code.

• xAI considers offering a free version of Grok Enterprise
  As xAI continues to burn through cash in its quest to become a leader in the artificial intelligence space, the company is also looking for more ways to generate income in order to offset the rising costs of AI development.

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