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Feb 26, 2026

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

1. Why automating a broken workflow with AI is a trap
   (Before adding AI, maybe add clarity.)

2. Instagram emphasizes Reels in new design update
   (Short-form still undefeated)

3. How to keep your content fresh in the age of AI
   (Original thinking is the real algorithm hack.)

4. Is Your Brand Visible in AI Search Results?
   (Authority > traffic.)

5. Google’s new Gemini Pro model has record benchmark scores
   (The AI Olympics continue)

The Growth joke of the day

Why did the brand panic about AI search?
Because it ranked #1 on Google… and still got ghosted by the AI summary.

3-Minute News Bulletin with Roxie

This week's 🙌 News Bulletin explores:
Female Founders, AI Advances, and Cybersecurity Challenges Shape the Tech Landscape

This week’s News Bulletin highlights how leadership, AI democratization, and digital accountability are reshaping growth in 2026.

Austin’s female-founded startups continue to redefine innovation, while Google pushes automation mainstream with Gemini-powered workflow building. At the same time, new research shows AI could unlock trillions in productivity, but only if businesses accelerate upskilling and adoption.

From AI content labeling and ecommerce inside AI interfaces to mounting scrutiny around platform safety and cybersecurity breaches, the message is clear: growth now depends on skills, trust, and infrastructure.

AI is expanding access. Regulation is tightening. And competitive advantage belongs to brands that adapt fast and build responsibly.

Latest Growth Hacking News

Strategies

• Amazon’s AI-powered Alexa+ gets new personality options
  Amazon is introducing a new feature that will allow users to change the personality of its AI assistant, Alexa+. On Wednesday, the company launched three new Alexa+ personality styles — Brief, Chill, and Sweet — that will change the AI assistant’s tone.

• Invisible Engagement: Why Likes Don’t Matter (and What to Track Instead)
  If your brand’s social posts feel quieter than they used to: fewer likes, fewer public comments, you’re not alone. That doesn’t necessarily mean people stopped paying attention. It often means they’ve shifted how they engage.

• If your measurement strategy delays decisions, it’s broken
  When attribution, incrementality and MMM disagree, teams freeze. Growth comes from acting with confidence, stacking small gains and validating impact in the P&L.

• Meta is shutting down Messenger’s standalone website
  Meta is shutting down its standalone Messenger website, the company shared in a help page. Starting April 2026, the website will no longer be available.

• HubSpot supercharges its media engine by buying Starter Story
  By acquiring the profitable, YouTube-first entrepreneur brand, HubSpot is expanding its audience machine and doubling down on media as a demand generation strategy.

OUR NEXT EPISODE IS LIVE
GrowthHackers🎙️

A Founder’s Journey in Microscope

In this episode, we sit down with Jack, the 22-year-old founder of ARK-STEM — the global community and marketplace built by STEM lovers, for STEM lovers.

ARK-STEM is a dedicated platform where makers, engineers, and innovators can share projects, collaborate, sell inventions, and preserve what they build in a way that’s deeper and more enduring than fleeting social posts or video snippets.

Jack opens up about his journey from a young tinkerer to launching a platform that bridges community, creativity, and commerce.

Are you ready?

What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• How AI Changes Where Marketing Budgets Are Spent
  Transform your PPC budgeting approach with rebalancing based on buyer intent signals for effective media spending.

• 5 Ways Emerging Businesses Can Show up in ChatGPT, Gemini & Perplexity
  When ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity mention a company, these large language models (LLMs) are deciding whether that business is safe to reference, not how long it has existed.

• As AI data centers hit power limits, Peak XV backs Indian startup C2i to fix the bottleneck
  Power, rather than compute, is fast becoming the limiting factor in scaling AI data centers. That shift has prompted Peak XV Partners to back C2i Semiconductors.

• Google Offers AI Certificate Free For Eligible U.S. Small Businesses
  Google launched an AI Professional Certificate with seven self-paced modules and three months of AI Pro access. Eligible U.S. small businesses can enroll free.

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