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Growth in the Shadows: Platform Risks, AI Backdoors & Data Leaks ☕️
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July 28, 2025
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Quick Hits
Meta Just Hit Pause on EU Political Ads—Here’s Why It Matters
(This isn’t just compliance—it’s platform risk management at scale.)When AI Doesn’t Know—It Googles It. Literally.
(The future isn’t retrieval vs. generation—it’s seamless orchestration of both.)OpenAI Confirms: Your ChatGPT History Can Be Used in Court
(Every prompt is now a paper trail.)Privacy Breakdown: Tea App Breach Leaks Tens of Thousands of User Photos
The Growth joke of the day
Why did the entrepreneur hire a growth hacker instead of a marketer?
Because they didn’t need a brand book—they needed users by Friday. 🚀📊
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Strategies
Google Says: Your CSS Class Names Don’t Matter for SEO
Google’s Search Relations team explains how CSS affects SEO, addressing myths about class names, pseudo elements, and page performance.
Ex-Tesla Exec: Real Products, Not Mockups, Drive True Innovation
GM’s EVs have been on a roll lately. After selling just the Chevy Bolt for years, a wave of new models — now up to 17 fully electrified vehicles — has pushed the automaker into second place in the U.S. behind Tesla.
Lyft Bets on Autonomous Shuttles as Uber Doubles Down on Self-Driving
Lyft will add autonomous shuttles made by Austrian manufacturer Benteler Group to its network in late 2026, the company announced Friday. The shuttles will be deployed in partnership with U.S. cities and airports, according to Lyft, but could expand out from there if things go well.
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People
Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unit
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that former OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao will lead research efforts at the company’s new AI unit, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)
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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Google is testing a vibe-coding app called Opal
AI-powered coding tools have become so popular over the past few months that almost every major tech company is either using one or making its own. Makers of these so-called “vibe-coding” tools are a hot commodity at the moment, with startups like Lovable and Cursor fending off buyers and investors keen to tap a hot trend.
Programmatic SEO Got This Site Deindexed—But Not Defeated
A startup revealed how thin AI-generated content used for programmatic SEO led to a deindexing issue by Google. Rebranding, better content quality, and fewer pages helped the site restore performance.
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