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Nov 06, 2025

Hello, GrowthHackers! 

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.

Think of it as your growth-fueled espresso shot.
Short. Smart. Addictive.

Let’s dive in.👇

Quick Hits

1. Netflix in talks to license video podcasts from iHeartMedia
   (That’s just YouTube with better thumbnails 💀)

2. Canva launches its own design model, adds new AI features to the platform (Canva’s not just a tool anymore, it’s a design OS.)

3. Black Friday History: The Story You Didn’t Know
   (Proof that growth is just organized frenzy)

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

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

6. How Introvert Marketers Can Treat Job Hunting Like a Marketing Campaign
   (A funnel is still a funnel even when the product is you.)

The Growth joke of the day

What did one prospective lead say to the marketer?
Catch me if you can!

3-Minute News Bulletin
with Roxie

This week's 🙌 News Bulletin explores:
AI Innovation, Black Friday Records, and Key Shifts in Tech and Marketing

This week’s GrowthRocks News Bulletin
dives into the edge of AI-powered marketing and automation. 👥

From turning your job hunt into a full-funnel campaign to ClickUp’s AI leap and Black Friday’s $74B data story, every headline reveals how growth, tech, and creativity collide.

We unpack the AI gaps brands still face, the legal gray zones of generative content, and Apple’s rumored Siri-Gemini upgrade.

Smart reads, sharper insights built for marketers who move fast and think exponential.

Latest Growth Hacking News

Strategies

• Zero-click search: The search revolution transforming digital marketing
  More searches end without a click. Learn what zero-click searches are, why they’re rising, and how to optimize content to stay visible in a no-click world.

• 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.

• Facebook Will Now Allow Private Groups to Switch to Public Instead

  Facebook introduces a feature for group admins to convert private groups to public for greater discovery and growth, while preserving historical privacy for past content and addressing concerns about community management and visibility.

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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Figma acquires AI-powered media generation company Weavy

  Figma acquired Weavy, a Tel Aviv AI startup specializing in media generation tools for images and videos. The Weavy team will launch Figma Weave, merging advanced generative AI with Figma’s design platform, enabling users to leverage multiple models for creative workflows.

• 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.

• Dia’s AI browser starts adding Arc’s ‘greatest hits’ to its feature set
  The AI web browser Dia is drawing inspiration from its predecessor, Arc, an earlier experiment in modernizing the web-browsing experience that hailed from the startup known as The Browser Company.

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