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Nov 03, 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. Meta has an AI product problem
   (The real product gap isn’t tech, it’s trust.)

2. Google pulls Gemma from AI Studio after Senator Blackburn accuses model of defamation
   (Train your models, but also your PR teams.)

3. You can now give NotebookLM more instructions
   (Context is the new UI.)

The Growth joke of the day

I asked my AI assistant to write a joke about humans…
It said, “Processing…” and has been laughing ever since. 🤖

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• Rising energy prices put AI and data centers in the crosshairs

  Explores how the AI-driven data center boom is raising concerns about utility costs for consumers and impacting growth strategies for tech firms; also discusses implications for scaling digital businesses as energy costs shift.

• YC alum Adam raises $4.1M to turn viral text-to-3D tool into AI copilot
  Adam, one of the most viral startups in Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch, has raised a $4.1 million seed round to power its next steps, TechCrunch learned exclusively.

• How Google’s AI Overviews are accelerating change in paid search
  Google’s AI Overviews continue to disrupt search as we know it. For advertisers, the landscape is shifting fast, with AI-generated answers now appearing on more queries and across more industries. Early Adthena data shows Paid Search click-through rates could decline by 8–12 percentage points (roughly a 20–40% relative drop) as AI-generated answers take up more space on the SERP.

• Google Maps gets Gemini AI and it’s about to change how you navigate
  According to reports from early beta testers, Google is gradually replacing its ageing Google Assistant across its entire ecosystem, and Maps is the latest app to get the Gemini treatment.

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People

• Kevin Rose’s simple test for AI hardware
  Kevin Rose has a visceral rule for evaluating AI hardware investments: “If you feel like you should punch someone in the face for wearing it, you probably shouldn’t invest in it.”

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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

• AI researchers ’embodied’ an LLM into a robot – and it started channeling Robin Williams

  AI experiment where LLMs were embedded in robots to evaluate readiness; highlights performance and safety gaps, offering insights for marketers considering automation and AI-powered customer experiences.

• Sam Altman says ‘enough’ to questions about OpenAI’s revenue
  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that the company is doing “well more” than $13 billion in annual revenue  and he sounded a little testy when pressed on how it will pay for its massive spending commitments.

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