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July 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.
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Quick Hits

1. YouTube Expands Hype Creator Support Program, Adds Summer-Themed Stickers
   (YouTube isn’t just rewarding creators—they’re investing in ecosystem loyalty.)

2. Humans Are Starting to Talk More Like ChatGPT 
   (That’s cultural drift.)

3. Now Microsoft’s Copilot Vision AI can scan everything on your screen 
   (From assistant to observer)

The Growth joke of the day

How did the computer get drunk?
It had too many screenshots. 🥴

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What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• Lucid Motors will roll out hands-free highway driving this month
  Lucid Motors is set to roll out a software update on July 30 that will enable hands-free highway driving on its Air sedans, a major step forward for the company’s advanced driver assistance system.

• Apple commits $500M to US-based rare-earth recycling firm MP Materials

  Apple is investing heavily in domestic rare-earth production with MP Materials and working on a rare-earth recycling line. This reflects a long-term growth strategy tied to sustainable product development with materials reuse.

• Rivian taps Google to bring custom maps into its EVs and app

  Rivian and Google collaborated for 18 months to develop custom Google Maps for in-car and app navigation, focusing on personalized EV experiences and smart trip planning—an example of experience-based growth tactics.

• Google Discover adds AI summaries, threatening publishers with further traffic declines

  Now, instead of seeing a headline from a major publication, users will see multiple news publishers’ logos in the top-left corner, followed by an AI-generated summary that cites those sources.

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  People

• A former OpenAI engineer describes what it’s really like to work there

  French-Owen said he didn’t leave because of any “drama,” but because he wants to get back to being a startup founder.

What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• AI coding tools are shifting to a surprising place: the terminal

  AI development is moving beyond code editors to the command-line terminal. Tools like Claude Code and Warp showcase next-gen automation targeting DevOps and broader development tasks—raising implications for developer productivity and growth tooling.

• Samsung's 2024 TVs are getting a great free upgrade we've been waiting for

  One of our favorite things about Samsung's best TVs in 2025 is the upgraded Tizen operating system, which we think is the best version it's offered so far. So Tizen 90's recent arrival on 2024-model TVs is a very welcome upgrade.

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