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Dec 31, 2025

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. VCs predict enterprises will spend more on AI in 2026
   (AI officially moved from ‘experiment’ to ‘line item)

2. ChatGPT's Latest AI Image Generator Is Its Best Yet
   (This one actually understood the prompt. Growth.)

The Growth joke of the day

Why do CEOs love AI so much?
Because it scales faster than headcount and never asks for a promotion.

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• Robotics to Get Marketing Boost in 2026 with Shift from Hype to Functionality

  2026 will see marketing efforts reframe robotics—moving from humanoid hype to useful, affordable functional tech—in digital-first campaigns, attracting new attention and funding.

  The phone is dead. Long live . . . what exactly?

  True Ventures co-founder Jon Callaghan doesn’t think we’ll be using smartphones the way we do now in five years  and maybe not at all in 10.

  Microsoft to delete Skype messages in January - how to save

  Microsoft has warned users they have until January 2026 to save messages from an app that was "retired" earlier this year before they are deleted for good.

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People

• The tech bro plan to cut the price of Britain’s electricity

  The round was led by existing backers Balderton Capital and Lowercarbon Capital. Fuse said every major current investor took part, alongside new investors including QuantumLight, the venture fund founded by Revolut co-founder Nik Storonsky.

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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

• AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug

  A pioneer of AI has criticised calls to grant the technology rights, warning that it was showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be prepared to pull the plug if needed.

Happy New Year from the Growth side. 🎉

Cheers to a new year of faster learning and growth that actually compounds.

-GrowthHackers Team

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