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Oct 20, 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.
Short. Smart. Addictive.

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Quick Hits

1. X to launch marketplace for buying inactive handles
   (Usernames are the new real estate. Digital identity just got a price tag. 💸)

2. Google Confirms Bad News For All 3 Billion Chrome Users
   (When your browser turns into a headline, it’s never about speed.)

3. AI search isn’t the end of SEO – it’s the next era
   (Now it optimizes for context, not clicks. 🚀)

The Growth joke of the day

How do SEO experts celebrate improved search rankings?
SERP-rise parties. 🎉

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• Grow Fast, Stay Safe: The Startup Guide to Security That Scales

  Startups are built on speed. New customers, new tools, new data; growth moves fast, and security often tries to catch up.The truth is, most breaches do not happen because of complex hacks they happen because teams scale too quickly without tightening what connects their systems. Fast growth is great until one weak link slows everything down.

• Wikipedia Reports 8% YoY Decline in Human Traffic

  Wikipedia's human pageviews dropped 8% year-over-year, attributed to AI search answers and social media habits.

• What we know as mass AWS internet outage hits most popular apps and sites

  According to online outage tracker Downdetector, large numbers of services and platforms experienced issues, including industries stretching from home security, banking, e-commerce and gaming.

• Spotify now lets you follow venues to get details on upcoming concerts

  Spotify is introducing a new feature that will let users follow venues to get updates and details on concerts scheduled to take place there.

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People

• The man betting everything on AI and Bill Belichick

  Whether Roberts’ game plan works remains to be seen. What’s clear is that he’s betting moving fast and shaking things up is better than moving slowly and preserving tradition at highly ranked UNC.

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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

• Adobe launches a foundry service that builds custom generative AI models for enteprises

  Adobe launched Adobe AI Foundry on Monday, a new offering that allows enterprises to work with the company to build custom generative AI models trained on their branding and intellectual property.

• Scale AI alum raises $9M for AI serving critical industries in MENA

  Abu-Ghazaleh said his two-month-old company promises to cut inefficiencies in high-stakes sectors like aviation, logistics, and oil and gas through an AI-native operating system for decision-making. 

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