Gmail Just Gave Your Inbox a Break — While AI Spirals and Startups Soar ☕

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July 09, 2025

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Quick Hits

  1. Elon Musk’s Grok Removes ‘Politically Incorrect’ Guidance After Chatbot Praises Hitler
    (Grok went from “free speech AI” to please stop saying that.)

  2. LangChain is about to become a unicorn?
    (Proof that building tools for the builders is still the ultimate growth hack.)

  3. Gmail’s new ‘Manage subscriptions’ tool will help declutter your inbox (Inbox zero just got its biggest glow-up.)

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That one lead who opened the email 12 times and still didn’t convert. 👻

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

  •  AI Discoverability Through Sharing Buttons

    Technique to increase AI discoverability via embedded links that prompt users to trigger AI summaries of a URL. Although not confirmed as working for general model training, this interaction builds engagement and may influence how AI ranks or surfaces content in future responses.

  • GenAI as a shopping assistant set to explode during Prime Day sales

    Amazon’s annual sale, which this year spans four days (July 8-11), is predicted to drive $23.8 billion in online spending across U.S. e-commerce retailers, as other businesses run their own competing sales alongside the popular shopping event.

  • Ikea’s latest speaker lamp ditches Sonos for Spotify and inexpensive Bluetooth 

    Bluetooth and quick-to-music features like Spotify Tap are the future of sound at Ikea now that the Sonos partnership has fizzled. It’s an approach that Ikea’s David Granath says will make speakers more affordable and easier to use for more people.

People

  • Apple COO Jeff Williams to step down later this month

    Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer, is stepping down from his role later this month, as announced by the company on Tuesday. Sabih Khan, who currently serves as the senior vice president of operations, has been appointed as the new COO.

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