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Oct 016, 2025

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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.

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Quick Hits

1. Instagram to show PG-13 content by default to teens, adds more parental controls
   (Platforms are finally realizing that “responsible growth” isn’t just a PR line it’s the new retention strategy.)

2. The War of (Mood) Boards
   (Boards are thinking spaces.)WPBakery WordPress Vulnerability Lets Attackers Inject Malicious Code
   (Security is the new UX)

3. You can now text Spotify’s AI DJ
   (First we curated playlists. Now we text them. Engagement is officially conversational.)

4. Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for adult users
   (OpenAI’s testing where growth meets boundaries.)

The Growth joke of the day

Setting high SEO expectations is like hoping to find a unicorn in your backyard by sunrise: unrealistic and imaginary. 🥲

3-Minute News Bulletin with
Growth Hackers

This week's 🙌 News Bulletin explores:
AI Advances, Digital Collaboration, and Safety Drive This Week’s Tech News

🚀 This Week in Growth: AI Redefines Creativity and Control

From Miro and Adobe Firefly Boards to Midjourney, creative collaboration goes fully AI-powered turning static mood boards into dynamic idea engines. Meanwhile, OpenAI and Broadcom team up to build next-gen AI chips through 2029, setting a new bar for performance and sustainability.

Instagram tightens safety controls for teens, SpaceX launches its own fire department, and Google Lighthouse 13 delivers sharper, insight-driven SEO audits. A Yale study eases job loss fears in marketing, even as unencrypted satellite data raises fresh security concerns.

💡 Innovation is speeding up but trust and safety remain the real growth advantage.

Latest Growth Hacking News

Strategies

• Google Redesigns How Search Ads Are Labeled

  Google introduces a “Sponsored results” label, grouping ads and making it possible to collapse the entire block. Aimed at transparency, this shift may impact CTR and user engagement with ads, signaling a move towards more user control and performance-driven search marketing.

• LinkedIn’s Gaming Leaderboards for Connections Are Now Live

  LinkedIn launches new leaderboards for its in-app games, allowing users to compare scores with their direct connections. Meant to drive engagement and retention, this shift may be leveraged by marketers seeking to increase organic participation and deepen user relationships on the platform.

• Google Adds AI Previews To Discover, Sports Feed Coming

  Google rolled out an AI-powered update to Discover and previewed a new sports experience in mobile Search.The Discover change shows short previews you can expand for more context, with links to continue exploring content on the web

• FleetWorks raises $17M to match truckers with cargo faster

  The thousands of small trucking companies that help move goods around the United States have a fairly old-school way of doing things, according to Paul Singer. He would know  he left his product manager job at Uber Freight to start a company called FleetWorks, which he believes will modernize things.

• NotebookLM to get new feature updates, Magic View mystery solved

  NotebookLM's Magic View will be a notebook banner tool. It also readies new infographic formats, Fast Research and updated Video Overview styles.

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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• TikTok Shares Pointers on Successful AI Adoption for Marketers

  TikTok, with Lunar Solar Group, shares tips on integrating AI tools for ad creation and targeting, emphasizing AI as a complement to human expertise. Advice includes leveraging TikTok’s Smart+ ads and Symphony creative tools. The company also released an “AI Advantage: Agency Playbook” for marketers seeking to refine AI strategies.

• Analytics Advisor offers answers, visualizations, and educational guidance

  The new AI-powered chat interface in GA4 allows marketers to ask questions, get visualized answers, and receive guidance pulled from documentation streamlining analytics-driven decision-making and reducing learning curves for growth teams.

• Tesla Under Investigation for Full Self-Driving Technology

  The NHTSA is investigating Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) software after reports of vehicles running red lights or veering into incorrect lanes. This regulatory scrutiny could impact Tesla's efforts to lead in autonomous vehicles a core component of their growth and marketing strategy.

• Ready or not, enterprises are betting on AI

  This has been a big week for AI companies signing enterprise deals, with Zendesk unveiling new AI agents that are supposed to be able to resolve 80% of customer service issues, Anthropic and IBM announcing a strategic partnership, and Deloitte also announcing a deal with Anthropic.

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