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July 24, 2025

Hello, GrowthHackers! 

Welcome to your Weekly unfair advantage.

Once a week, 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

• Meet GPT’s New Superpower: The General-Purpose Agent
  (The age of prompt engineering is evolving into task automation.)

• From Zero to Unicorn: Lovable Raises $200M Series A in Record Time
  (This isn’t just fast—it’s funded virality.)

• Is It “Too SEO”? Google Just Answered
  (There’s no such thing as "too SEO"—just bad UX disguised as optimization.)

• ChatGPT users send 2.5 billion prompts a day
  (That’s not usage. That’s a goldmine of intent data.)

• WordPress Gets an AI Boost with WP Engine’s New Toolkit
  (No code? No problem. WP Engine is turning WordPress into a growth machine.)

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Latest Growth Hacking News

Strategies

• Creators, Take Note: Twitch Is Testing a New Vertical Format

  Twitch begins alpha testing vertical video, targeting TikTok and Instagram Reels audiences. This shift in content format gives creators and marketers new tools to engage audiences in mobile-native formats—a key growth hacking opportunity.

• DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results

  Privacy-focused browser DuckDuckGo is rolling out a new setting that lets users filter out AI images in search results. The company says it’s launching the feature in response to feedback from users who said AI images can get in the way of finding what they’re looking for.

• Figma looks to raise nearly $1B as it kicks off its IPO roadshow

  Figma announced Monday it is kicking off its IPO roadshow. The company plans to offer more than 36 million shares of class A stock that are expected to be priced between $25 and $28 a share.

• Amazon’s Next Move? AI That Listens 24/7
  Amazon has acquired the AI wearables startup Bee, according to a LinkedIn post by Bee co-founder Maria de Lourdes Zollo. Amazon confirmed the acquisition to TechCrunch but noted that the deal has not yet closed.

Roxie’s 3-Minute News Bulletin

This week's 🙌 News Bulletin Roxie explores:
AI Startups and Tech Giants Drive Innovation Across Industries

🚀 AI isn’t slowing down—and neither are the innovators.

From MIT-born Delve raising $32M to Stanford’s Mixus simplifying AI agents for Slack and email, this week’s bulletin maps the edge of AI transformation. Defense tech gets a spotlight at TechCrunch Disrupt, Lucid links up with Tesla Superchargers, and 72% of U.S. teens are bonding with AI companions.

Plus: Threads analytics upgrade, Semrush's LLM monitoring tools, and Snapchat boosts women in sports content.

What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Alexa’s new AI agent is ambitious but unfinished.

  The idea is I can talk to Alexa Plus as I would to a real personal assistant and ask it to do tasks, such as reserving a restaurant for my friend’s birthday, finding an electrician to fix my broken sprinkler pump, or booking tickets to a Chris Isaak concert.

• Advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad
  The International Mathematical Olympiad (“IMO”) is the world’s most prestigious competition for young mathematicians, and has been held annually since 1959.

• Oracle Just Became AI’s Most Expensive Power-Up

  OpenAI’s confirmation of the $30B/year Oracle deal signals aggressive infrastructure scaling and investment in AI. This data center capacity will support OpenAI's continued rollout of large-scale agentic AI products, impacting digital automation at scale.