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Μay 08, 2026

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.
Short. Smart. Addictive.

Let’s dive in.👇

Quick Hits

1. Google Ads Rolls Out Journey
   (Google wants to track the whole customer story now)

2. LinkedIn partners with Amazon Ads
   (B2B targeting meets retail ad scale)

3. Airbnb says AI now writes 60% of its new code
   (Developers now supervising more than typing.)

The Growth joke of the day

Why are developers nervous about AI writing code?
Because the AI ships features faster… and still doesn’t ask for PTO.

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• The Agent Runtime Wars Have Begun. Is Your Website Ready?
  The agent runtime is the new browser layer, and your website is going to be evaluated against the runtime, not against any individual model.

  That’s a shift web professionals have not yet made

• Google’s Mueller Flags SEO Gaps In AI Vibe Coding

  Google's John Mueller and Martin Splitt shared their vibe coding experiences, noting that AI tools still need specific SEO instructions to work well.

• Threads adds new posting options and animated mini stickers
  Threads added two new tools to encourage posting behavior, with automated separation of longer text blocks into multiple Threads posts, and animated stickers to make posts stand out in-stream.

• OpenAI introduces new ‘Trusted Contact’ safeguard for cases of possible self-harm
  OpenAI announced a new feature called Trusted Contact, designed to alert a trusted third party if mentions of self-harm are expressed within a conversation. The feature allows an adult ChatGPT user to designate another person as a trusted contact within their account, such as a friend or family member.

• Disney looking to make a unified ‘super app,’
  Disney senior executives could potentially combine Disney+ with other apps like Disneyland Resort and Disney Cruise Line Navigator to make one unified app, according to a report from Bloomberg.

• Perplexity’s Personal Computer is now available to everyone on Mac
  Perplexity’s Personal Computer, its answer to OpenClaw and other local AI agents, is now available to all Mac users via its desktop app, the company announced on Thursday.
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People

• Jeff Bezos rep leaves Slate Auto’s board
  Melinda Lewison, who leads investments at Bezos Expeditions, appears to have stepped down at some point in the last few months, documents filed with the Delaware, Florida, and Massachusetts secretaries of state show. That leaves Bezos with no direct representation on Slate’s board as the company prepares to put its low-cost electric truck into production later this year.

What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

• The ROI Problem With AI Traffic Nobody Is Measuring Correctly
  Search engines were designed to do several things at once: Rank a field of options, route the user to one of them, and keep the human inside the decision so the engine never owned the choice.

• Meta announces AI support for SMBs and rural companies
  Meta continues to invest heavily in an AI-powered future, and a significant part of that push lies in business opportunities designed to eventually drive revenue from subscribers to its AI systems.

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