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Jan 23, 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. TikTok quietly launches a microdrama app called ‘PineDrama’
   (Short-form content evolving into short-form emotions)

2. ChatGPT users are about to get hit with targeted ads
   (From helpful assistant to sponsored bestie.)

3. Netflix is rolling out a live voting feature
   (Netflix said: what if you ruined the plot?)

4. Meta Looks to Establish Definitive Rules on Banning Public Figures
   (Meta trying to write the Terms & Conditions of chaos.)

5. X Publishes AI-Powered Algorithm Code
   (X said: here’s the code, good luck)

The Growth joke of the day

Why did the SEO expert read the algorithm’s source code?
To still end up saying, “It depends.”

3-Minute News Bulletin with Roxie

This week's 🙌 News Bulletin explores:
AI Shifts Industry Trends from Robotics Funding to Algorithm Transparency

In today’s News Bulletin , we break down how AI, platforms, and marketing are rapidly reshaping the digital landscape. From major funding bets on physical AI and robotics, to platforms opening up their algorithms, to interactive entertainment and AI-powered hospitality tech, this edition highlights how intelligence is moving from screens into real-world systems and everyday experiences.

We also explore the surge of generative AI apps, the growing importance of automation and advanced SEO, and a fundamental shift in how visibility and authority are measured in an AI-driven search era. The message is clear: growth today is less about traffic and more about trust, adaptability, and building for both humans and machines.

Latest Growth Hacking News

Strategies

• Google’s Mueller: Free Subdomain Hosting Makes SEO Harder

  John Mueller of Google has clarified that free subdomain hosting services tend to attract spam, which in turn makes it more difficult for legitimate websites using these services to achieve visibility in search results.

• Gemini introduces Personal Intelligence

  Personal Intelligence securely connects information from apps like Gmail and Google Photos to make Gemini uniquely helpful. If you turn it on, you control exactly which apps to link, and each one supercharges the experience.

• WordPress AI Team Head: SEO for AI Agents

  James LePage (Automattic) shares that AI agents depend on classic SEO: structured data, semantic density, interlinking; optimizing for AI is about organizing content for agentic consumption and represents the next growth opportunity for publishers.

• Adobe Acrobat now lets you edit files using prompts, generate podcast summaries
  Adobe is integrating more AI tools into Acrobat, allowing users to edit files with prompts, generate podcast summaries of documents, and create presentations.

• You can send your name around the Moon with NASA
  NASA is inviting the public to sign up to add their names on an SD card aboard Orion, the spacecraft slated to orbit the Moon during the Artemis II mission in the near future.And we think that is actually cool.

• The local SEO gatekeeper: How Google defines your entity
  Google won’t rank what it can’t confidently identify. See how business names and primary categories determine local search eligibility.Most businesses don’t fail to rank in the local pack because they lack reviews, links, or proximity. They fail long before that because Google never considers them eligible in the first place. This is a recurring pattern in local search that almost everyone overlooks. 

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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Biotics AI, Battlefield 2023, gains FDA approval for its AI-powered fetal ultrasound product

  The product was envisioned by founder CEO Robhy Bustami, who was raised in a family of obstetricians, including his mother, sister, and uncle. He spent a lot of time in hospitals growing up, often traveling with his mother as she provided maternal care throughout the U.S. 

• Rogue agents and shadow AI: Why VCs are betting big on AI security

  VCs invest in AI security due to incidents with rogue AI agents in enterprises. Witness AI raises $58M as AI threats, agent risks, and "shadow AI" force companies to monitor, govern, and scale secure AI adoption.

• Scientists unveil crawling robot hand that can grasp multiple objects
  Scientists have developed a new detachable, crawling, and grasping robot hand. This compact innovation offers sophisticated motor abilities for various industrial and other applications.

• In an effort to protect young users, ChatGPT will now predict how old you are

  As concern for AI’s impact on young people continues to mount, OpenAI has introduced an “age prediction” feature into ChatGPT that is designed to help identify minors and put sensible content constraints on their conversations.

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