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July 29, 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. TikTok Launches ‘Next Up’ Live Singing Competition
   (This isn’t just content—it’s conversion disguised as culture.)

2. Your Browser Just Got a Brain—Edge Launches Copilot Mode
   (Expect every tab to turn into a workflow.)

3. Google Chrome adds AI-powered store summaries to help US shoppers
   (AI just became your shopping assistant—and brand filter.)

The Growth joke of the day

“We positioned the product so well…
even our own team was confused about what it actually does.” 😅

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• Robinhood’s Co-Founder Is Building AI for Math—And It Just Went Live

  Harmonic, an AI startup co-founded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, announced Monday the beta launch of an iOS and Android chatbot app where users can access its AI model, Aristotle.

• Fundraisers Are Sweating—iOS 26 Just Changed the Game

  iOS 26 adds a new opt-in filtering system to the Messages app that tucks away messages from “Unknown Senders” into a separate tab.

• That Beautiful Hero Banner? Google Can’t See It.
  Google advises developers to stop using CSS for content-relevant images, as they can’t be indexed by search engines. This update affects SEO and content marketing strategies.

• Threads Gets Growth-Ready: Third-Party Management Now Live

  Meta’s Threads app adds advanced API features like poll support, location tagging, and engagement data — aimed at improving manageability and analytics for marketers and social media managers.

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  People

• Ex-Dispo Founder Bets Big on… Steel? Here’s Why

  Liss’ take away from the exercise? “Our core supply chain of the arsenal of democracy — literally, the ships that my grandfather fought in — we don’t have the ship-building capacity. If we did, we don’t have the steel to make it,” he said.

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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• New Rate Limits Hit Claude Users—Here’s Why It Matters for Builders
  Anthropic is introducing weekly rate limits on Claude Code to reduce misuse and manage computational strain. It targets power users and aims to maintain service quality. Users who exceed limits can pay extra.

• When AI Backfires: Hertz’s Damage-Detection System Is a Total Mess

  Back in April, the rental car company Hertz announced that it would be using UVeye, an AI damage scanning hardward and software system from a former defense contractor of the same name, to check its cars for damage after they were returned.

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