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Dec 29, 2025

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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.

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Quick Hits

1. Samsung plans to bring Google Photos to its TVs in 2026
   (Family slideshows on a 65-inch screen? Bold.)

2. You may soon be able to change your Gmail address
   (Gmail glow-up era)

3. LinkedIn Provides Personalized ‘Year in Review’ Summaries
   (Top achievement: surviving meetings)

4. We Tested The Top 5 Free AI Detectors. Here Are The Results
   (AI judging AI — let them fight)

The Growth joke of the day

Why did the AI go to art school?
It wanted to learn how to draw conclusions.

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• Risk transparency for social media users becomes law in New York

  New law aims to provide families with greater honesty about potential risks to mental health posed by social media, aligning marketing messaging with regulatory requirements and influencing disclosure practices for digital marketing teams.

• Push notification and infinite scroll restrictions become new regulatory target

  Social media growth tactics such as push notifications and infinite scroll are singled out for mandatory warnings, pushing platforms to review engagement-driven marketing strategies aimed at maximizing time-on-site/app among younger users.

• Cloudflare Reports Surge in Streaming Piracy Takedowns, Removes 20k+ Storage Accounts

  Cloudflare’s latest transparency report reveals a massive 3,800% surge in copyright-related takedown actions, fueled by a shift to more automated enforcement. By granting rightsholders direct API access, the company says that it was able to target live sports streaming piracy more effectively.

• Chasing trends and AI as a strategy: CMOs on 2025’s most overhyped marketing trends
  A trend is exciting until everyone and their mother jumps on it, at which point it just feels overdone. That sentiment is true whether it’s happening on TikTok or in the marketing industry at large.

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People

• Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella Treats AI as an Existential Threat
  Watching how CX initiatives play out in practice highlights a recurring issue: everyone knows they need to transform, but few know how to lead that transformation without breaking what already works.Then along comes Satya Nadella, treating AI not as a shiny new tool but as an existential threat that demands nothing less than a complete reimagining of how Microsoft operates at every level.

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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

• VCs predict strong enterprise AI adoption next year — again
  It’s been three years since OpenAI released ChatGPT and kicked off a surge in innovation and attention on AI. Since then, optimists have regularly claimed that AI will become a critical part of the enterprise software industry, and so enterprise AI startups mushroomed on the back of immense amounts of investment.

• Why B2B AI stalls — and the 5 pillars that unlock scale

  Many B2B organizations face a common paradox — high ambition for AI but low velocity in adoption. Leaders are convinced of the why but struggle with the how and where to begin.The result is a cycle of false starts and stalled initiatives. This friction point has become a defining challenge, determining which B2B organizations will lead and which will lag in the years ahead.

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