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Jan 22, 2026

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. Instagram Tests Changing ‘Following’ Display to ‘Friends’
   (Rename it all you want, I’m still muting people)

2. Spotify brings AI-powered Prompted Playlists
   (AI DJ but it gets my mood)

3. Apple plans to make Siri an AI chatbot, report says
   (Siri about to go from clueless to conversational.)

The Growth joke of the day

Why did Siri get nervous about becoming an AI chatbot?
Because Spotify already knows your mood and Instagram already knows your friends.

3-Minute News Bulletin with Roxie

This week's 🙌 News Bulletin explores:
AI Shifts Industry Trends from Robotics Funding to Algorithm Transparency

In this News Bulletin , we break down how AI, platforms, and marketing are rapidly reshaping the digital landscape. From major funding bets on physical AI and robotics, to platforms opening up their algorithms, to interactive entertainment and AI-powered hospitality tech, this edition highlights how intelligence is moving from screens into real-world systems and everyday experiences.

We also explore the surge of generative AI apps, the growing importance of automation and advanced SEO, and a fundamental shift in how visibility and authority are measured in an AI-driven search era. The message is clear: growth today is less about traffic and more about trust, adaptability, and building for both humans and machines.

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• Content Chunking: What Is It & Should You Care?

  Explains "content chunking"—structuring content for better AI retrieval and user experience. Offers tips for optimizing web content (headings, lists, concise paragraphs) and notes that quality and original research matter more than format for AI ranking.

• WordPress Advanced Custom Fields Extended Plugin Vulnerability

  Severe privilege escalation flaw in a popular WordPress plugin could allow site takeover. Affects up to 100k sites, with active exploits detected. Fix is to update immediately. Highlights the importance of marketing site security and plugin management.

• OpenAI Search Crawler Passes 55% Coverage In Hostinger Study

  Hostinger's study: AI model training bots face more blocks, but assistant/search bots (like OpenAI's OAI-SearchBot) are gaining coverage and play a bigger role in AI discovery and traffic, impacting content strategies for marketers.

• Fresh content boosts Google Discover/AI recommendation visibility

  Google Discover and similar AI recommenders reward regular publishing/fresh content, so marketers and publishers gain from strategic, timely topic coverage.

• Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Apple is reportedly developing an AI wearable
  Apple may be developing its own AI wearable, according to a report published Wednesday by The Information. The device will be a pin that users can wear on their clothing, and that comes equipped with two cameras and three microphones, the report says.

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People

• CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands

  Wondering what your career looks like in our increasingly uncertain, AI-powered future? According to Palantir CEO Alex Karp, it’s going to involve less of the comfortable office work to which most people aspire, a more old fashioned grunt work with your hands.

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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

• Adobe Acrobat now lets you edit files using prompts, generate podcast summaries

  Adobe adds more AI tools to Acrobat: create presentations from text prompts, generate podcast summaries, and edit files using prompts. New features also include in-document AI summaries, assistant roles, and enhanced collaboration.

• PraxisPro raises $6M seed from AlleyCorp to coach medical sales reps

  PraxisPro, an AI-powered medical sales rep coaching platform, raises $6M. The platform uses specialized language models and an AI agent to simulate healthcare sales conversations, aiming to improve compliance and effectiveness of sales reps.

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