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Oct 30, 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.

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Quick Hits

1. These robots can clean, exercise and care for you in old age.
   (Finally, moving from prompt engineering to housekeeping.)

2. Instagram Adds Assistive AI for Visual Creation
   (Creativity just got co-piloted)

3. Microsoft Updates Copilot With Memory, Search Connectors, & More (From assistant to strategist XD)

4. OpenAI reportedly developing new generative music tool
   (The soundtrack of marketing might soon be AI-made.)

5. Instagram’s latest feature lets you go back to see your watched Reels (Replay is retention. Instagram just turned nostalgia into a metric.)

The Growth joke of the day

Why did the salesperson bring a ladder to the meeting?
To take the conversion rate to the next level. 😎📈

3-Minute News Bulletin
with Roxie

This week's 🙌 News Bulletin explores:
AI Innovation, Cybersecurity Advances, and Tech Trends Shaping

This Week in Growth: Smarter AI, Safer Systems, and the Future of Automation 🚀

AI isn’t slowing down it’s scaling up. This week, Mem Zero secured $24M to give machines something they’ve always lacked: memory. Their mission to build persistent AI cognition could redefine how automation adapts, learns, and personalizes across platforms.

Meanwhile, cybersecurity gets its own breakthrough as CyDeploy introduces digital twins for enterprise systems, letting teams safely test updates before deploying them live a game-changer for operational risk and resilience.

Google’s AI-powered query groups are transforming how marketers analyze intent, while Adobe’s new YouTube Shorts tools bring professional-grade short-form editing straight into Premiere, blurring the line between creator and brand studio.

As we approach peak shopping season, Black Friday data shows humor-led and early-bird campaigns driving higher conversions, proving that personality still wins in the performance era.

The takeaway? Growth in 2025 isn’t about more it’s about smarter. From memory-driven AI to simulation-first security, the next wave of marketing and automation is intelligent, adaptive, and built to last.

Latest Growth Hacking News

Strategies

• Google Announces A New Era For Voice Search

  Google launches its Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R) model for voice search, processing spoken queries directly with AI for faster, more accurate results. This advancement stands to reshape SEO and voice-driven marketing strategies.

• AI Assistants Show Significant Issues In 45% Of News Answers

  A cross-market study reveals that 45% of AI assistant-generated news answers contain significant problems mainly poor sourcing, misinformation, or incorrect responses. Implications for digital marketers relying on AI for content curation or summaries highlight trust and verification concerns.

• OpenAI buys Sky, an AI interface for Mac
  OpenAI announced on Thursday it has acquired Software Applications, Inc., the makers of an AI-powered natural language interface for Mac computers called Sky.
  90% of businesses fear losing SEO visibility as AI reshapes search
  Businesses aren’t waiting for AI to take over search – 85.7% are investing in AI SEO, and 61.2% plan to spend more on SEO, survey finds.

• LinkedIn’s New Rules for B2B Marketing Measurement

  With the advent of new technologies, spurring significant change in many sectors, the focus for digital marketers is changing, in line with evolving user behaviors, and the means we now have to measure such.

• ChatGPT Atlas browser could drain ad budgets by mimicking human clicks

  Following OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT Atlas, software company Search Atlas flagged a major issue: the AI-powered browser can interact with websites in a way that looks indistinguishable from real human users, including clicking on paid advertisements.

• PayPal partners with OpenAI to let users pay for their shopping within ChatGPT

  Paypal is adopting the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), an open-source specification developed by OpenAI that lets merchants make their products available within AI apps, consequently enabling users to shop using AI agents.

• Threads adds ‘ghost posts’ that disappear after 24 hours

  Threads launches “ghost posts,” ephemeral messages that vanish in 24 hours, encouraging low-stakes, high-engagement content sharing; aims to boost user activity and attract new creators by lowering posting pressure.

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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Sora update to bring AI videos of your pets, new social features, and soon, an Android version

  OpenAI's Sora app announces new social, creation, and editing features plus an upcoming Android version. The app prioritizes viral, user-generated AI video content, targeting further user growth and engagement.

• Sam Altman Eclipses Zuckerberg: AI Reshapes Human Thought

  Sam Altman of OpenAI is eclipsing Mark Zuckerberg's influence, positioning AI as the new shaper of human thought over social media. Amid talent wars and ethical concerns, AI's personalized prompts are transforming cognition, potentially rendering traditional networks obsolete.

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