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Aug 21, 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. Google Brings Conversational AI Image Editing to Pixel
   (Editing just went from clicks to convos.)

2. Meta puts the brakes on its massive AI talent spending spree
   (Hype cycles fade, burn rates don’t.)

3. MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
   (Pilots fail when there’s no workflow fit.)

The Growth joke of the day

Every growth hacker’s favorite magic trick:
turning a 1% lift into a 50-slide deck.

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• YouTube Levels Up Shorts with ML-Powered Visuals

  YouTube announces ML enhancements for Shorts clip quality, automatically refining resolution post-upload to improve visual aesthetics — a new growth feature for content creators looking to efficiently boost video quality UX.

• Ahrefs Launches Tracker for ChatGPT vs Google Traffic

  Ahrefs releases monthly dashboard tracking referral traffic from Google vs. ChatGPT. While Google dominates, ChatGPT’s channel is growing 3.8x faster, hinting at AI’s rising role in search behavior—important intel for growth strategists.

• Lovart Builds AI Design Agent to Augment Creative Teams 

  Former ByteDance exec’s startup generates complete brand campaigns from prompts, amasses 100K waitlist in five days

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  People
  

  Not many movements from our fellow Senior Growth Marketers today 🫠 

3-Minute News Bulletin with
Growth Hackers

This week's 🙌 News Bulletin explores:
AI Innovations and Tech Giants Shape the Future of Digital Experience

#AIMarketing #GrowthHacking #AIAutomation

AI is rewriting the growth playbook—and this week’s GrowthRocks Bulletin (Aug 20, 2025) shows how. From MozCon’s SEO tactics for the AI era to Nvidia’s new B30A chip in China, the landscape is shifting fast.

Startups like Firecrawl ($14.5M) are building the data backbone of AI, while Eight Sleep ($100M) pushes AI into wellness. TikTok experiments with campus communities, YouTube trims podcast dead air, and Google teases the Pixel 10 + Watch 4 with Gemini-powered AI features. Meanwhile, Meta simplifies metrics into one “Views” KPI, forcing marketers to rethink reporting.

What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

• Anthropic Supercharges Enterprise with Claude Code

  Anthropic announced a new enterprise bundle integrating Claude Code, aimed at companies looking to scale AI-powered development workflows and integrate command-line coding tools with Claude.ai for advanced customer feedback analysis and prototyping.

• Meta Adds 100MW of Solar Power from US Gear

  Meta partners with Silicon Ranch for solar energy to power its upcoming $800M AI data center in SC, highlighting the growing investment in sustainable infrastructure critical to AI and digital expansion.

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