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Dec 19, 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.
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Quick Hits

1. ChatGPT launches an app store, lets developers know it’s open for business
   (So… who’s building the AI that builds the AI?)

2. Google Gemini 3 Flash Becomes Default For AI Mode In Search
   (Search said ‘no thoughts, just answers.)

3. X Tests Watch History Tab
   (Delete button where?)

The Growth joke of the day

Sales is just convincing someone they already wanted this…
and then sending a follow-up to confirm it. XD

3-Minute News Bulletin with Roxie

This week's 🙌 News Bulletin explores:
AI Innovations Reshape Marketing, Search, and E-Commerce

This week’s News Bulletin zooms in on the systems shaping modern marketing and AI-driven growth. 🤖

From a sharp breakdown of the six pillars of competitive intelligence to OpenAI’s new GPT Image 1.5 and Google’s latest core update, every story points to one thing: structure beats tactics when the market moves fast.

We explore how AI search really indexes content, why Threads is doubling down on communities, how YouTube is redefining brand–creator partnerships, and what Cloudflare’s data reveals about the crawler wars behind the web.

Add in WooCommerce’s leap into agentic commerce with Stripe, and you get a clear picture of where marketing, platforms, and AI are heading next.

Smart reads. Strategic signals. Built for marketers who think in systems, not headlines.

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• YouTube Expands Voice Replies, Superchat Goals, AI Creation Tools and More

  YouTube's year-end feature update introduces new ways to boost engagement: expanded voice replies, auto-dubbing preferences, launch of its Create app for iOS, Superchat goals for vertical livestreams, AI-powered image editing (“Nano Banana”), auto-generated Shorts clips from long-form videos, comment summaries, and testing changes to the Shorts “dislike” button all potentially enhancing growth and creator-audience interaction.

• The Future Of Content In An AI World: Provenance & Trust In Information

  Discussions with Emily Anne Epstein suggest publishers must compete for trust (not just attention): transparent editorial standards, clear sourcing, and a “blockchain” approach to information provenance will be crucial. Content marketers must provide depth, context, and verifiable value as AI dominates first-layer information delivery. Insightful for digital trust strategies.

• Luma releases a new AI model that lets users generate a video from a start and end frame

  Luma, the a16z-backed AI video and 3D model company, released a new model called Ray3 Modify that allows users to modify existing footage by providing character reference images that preserve the performance of the original footage. Users can also provide a start and an end frame to guide the model to generate transitional footage.

• Google Adds AI Content Detection Tools to Gemini

  One of the side effects of the rapid rise of AI-generated content online is that it is also impacting sharing activity, due to questions about the authenticity of the visuals being presented. You don’t want to be that person, sharing clips that everyone else sees as clearly AI, which is making users more skeptical, and more hesitant to forward things that could be fake.

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People

• Former chancellor George Osborne joins OpenAI

  Former chancellor George Osborne is joining artificial intelligence (AI) giant OpenAI.He will lead its "OpenAI for Countries" programme, which is aimed at helping governments increase their AI capacity.Announcing his new London-based role, Osborne said it was a privilege to be joining the company.

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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

• Google’s Robby Stein Names 5 SEO Factors For AI Mode

  VP of Google Search, Robby Stein, shares how AI Mode applies search quality signals. He lists 5 ranking factors: direct answers, high quality, speed, originality, and source-citation. He stresses classic SEO signals remain vital in the AI search era guidance for digital marketers to stand out as AI search accelerates content curation and discovery.

• Salesforce brings Agentforce Sales to ChatGPT

  Salesforce has rolled out its Agentforce Sales app for ChatGPT, bringing AI-powered CRM functionality into the hands of sales reps  right inside their conversations. The integration, announced yesterday, connects Salesforce data with OpenAI’s ChatGPT to help sellers prioritize leads, update opportunities, and generate account plans without switching apps or tabs.

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