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July 17, 2025

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

• Fictional Teams. Real Money. Welcome to the Era of Story-Driven Brands
  ( Story isn’t branding anymore—it’s the whole funnel.)

• LGND wants to make ChatGPT for the Earth
  (It’s giving sustainability, but make it AI-sassy and API-ready.)

• Google’s Gmail Warning—If You See This, You’re Being Hacked
  (If Gmail ever goes “⚠️ this is sus,” cancel your day. )

Growth #MEME Of the Week

Latest Growth Hacking News

Strategies

• Facebook Adds Music for Text Posts

  Facebook introduces music integration for text posts to improve engagement and expression. Part of a broader strategy to plug in music-based interactive features.

• AI Designs New Material To Cool Your Home and Slash Energy Bills

  A new class of materials created with the help of artificial intelligence and machine learning could help lower indoor temperatures and reduce energy costs.

• Study warns of ‘significant risks’ in using AI therapy chatbots

  Therapy chatbots powered by large language models may stigmatize users with mental health conditions and otherwise respond inappropriately or even dangerously, according to researchers at Stanford University.

• Now Microsoft’s Copilot Vision AI can scan everything on your screen
  Microsoft is rolling out an update to Copilot Vision for Windows Insiders that lets the AI tool see everything that’s on your screen.

Roxie’s 3-Minute News Bulletin

This week's 🙌 News Bulletin Roxie explores:
AI Summaries Shake Up Web Traffic as Tech Giants Push New Features

AI writes your summaries, titles test themselves,
and Facebook’s giving MySpace energy.

Google’s AI summaries in Discover shake up publisher traffic,
Lucid drops hands-free highway mode, YouTube adds title A/B testing, and Meta cracks down on recycled content.
Meanwhile, ChatGPT replaces Google for 77% of users (yes, really), SEO pros scramble to adapt to AI Overviews, and Facebook adds music
to posts like it’s 2009 again.
Also: Pronto acquires SafeAI, signaling serious moves in off-road robotics.

What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Meta is reportedly using actual tents to build data centers

  Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are in a hurry to build their superintelligence tech. The company has been poaching AI researchers, while Zuckerberg announced on Monday that Meta is building a 5-gigawatt data center called Hyperion.

• A United Nations research institute created an AI refugee avatar

  A research institute connected to the United Nations has created two AI-powered avatars designed to teach people about refugee issues.

• A former OpenAI engineer describes what it’s really like to work there

  French-Owen said he didn’t leave because of any “drama,” but because he wants to get back to being a startup founder.