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Dec 18, 2025

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Quick Hits

1. Meta Adds New Features to Edits, Including AI Segmentation of Objects
   (Editing apps learning faster than creators.)

2. Adobe hit with proposed class-action, accused of misusing authors’ work in AI training
   (AI creativity comes with receipts now.)

3. Facebook is testing a link-posting limit for professional accounts and pages
   (Organic reach really said ‘know your place.)

The Growth joke of the day

Why did the marketer stop posting links on Facebook?
Because Meta said, “That’ll be premium behavior.”

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• X Launches Standalone Chat App on Desktop

  X (formerly Twitter) launches a standalone desktop chat app as part of an "everything app" strategy, aiming to drive platform growth, payments, and user retention, with AI-powered encrypted messaging at its core.

• Five Ways To Boost Traffic To Informational Sites

  An actionable guide on increasing informational site traffic mixing evergreen and trending content, updating outdated material, and differentiating your site for sustained growth crucial for growth marketers and content strategists.

• Rivian rolls out new ‘Universal Hands-Free’ driving feature

  Rivian’s new second-generation R1 EVs are receiving an update today that brings the new “Universal Hands-Free” driving software, which the company revealed last week at its first-ever “Autonomy & AI Day.”

• Bluesky launches a privacy-focused ‘Find Friends’ feature without invite spam

  Bluesky's new "Find Friends" feature enables secure, privacy-respecting contact matching, deliberately avoiding traditional spammy invite-growth tactics and highlighting alternative growth strategies for social networks.

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People

• Jared Isaacman confirmed as next head of NASA

  Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the next administrator of NASA. The private astronaut and founder of the Shift4 payments processing platform will now be in charge of an agency that faces great uncertainty under President Trump.

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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

• Luma releases a new AI model that lets users generate a video from

  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.

• Google launches Gemini 3 Flash, makes it the default model in the Gemini app
  Google today released its fast and cheap Gemini 3 Flash model, based on the Gemini 3 released last month, looking to steal OpenAI’s thunder. The company is also making this the default model in the Gemini app and AI mode in search.
  

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