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Apr 29, 2025

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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.

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Quick Hits

1. Duolingo's CEO Details AI-Driven Operational Changes
   (Will Duolingo learn to us how to talk in “AI”?)

2. ChatGPT Search Hits Over 1 Billion Weekly Searches

   (At least I graduated without ChatGPT)

3. Google Updates Gemini/Vertex AI User Agent Documentation

4. Positivity is the new black for marketers

The Growth joke of the day

Why would Sherlock Holmes make a good social media marketer?
Because he’s good at stalking other people. 🤣 

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

• Instagram May Soon Enable You to Add Custom Colors to Notes

  Instagram is internally testing colored Notes with emojis to enhance engagement and personalization. While still a prototype, it suggests potential in growth tactics aimed at younger audiences via more expressive communication features that drive DMs and interactions.

• Girard Media LLC Expands Growth Solutions with New PR, Advertising, and Media Services

  Girard Media LLC introduces a robust lineup of PR, advertising, and media tools to enhance brand visibility and strategic marketing.

• X Continues to Lose EU Users According to Latest DSA Report

  X (formerly Twitter) reported a loss of 11M EU users, representing a 10.5% drop. The decline raises serious questions for marketers relying on the platform, pushing reevaluation of growth channel strategy and budget trends for social-drip campaigns.

• StrictlyVC heads to London and Athens this May

  StrictlyVC’s May events in Athens and London focus on global startup scaling, investment strategies, and tech ecosystem development. Growth marketing themes are highlighted in talks by leaders like TS Anil from Monzo and Sonali De Rycker from Accel, relevant to startup expansion and marketing innovation.

People

Not many movements from our fellow Senior Growth Marketers today :/

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Agenda

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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• ChatGPT Adds Shopping, WhatsApp Search, & Improved Citations

  OpenAI rolled out shopping features, WhatsApp integration, and upgraded citations in ChatGPT Search. These improvements position ChatGPT as a competitor to traditional search engines, fueling opportunities for AI-assisted growth marketing and ecommerce/search integration.

• Meet the companies racing to build quantum chips

  A comprehensive review of startups and companies accelerating quantum computing development. Highlights potential breakthroughs that could have long-term implications for AI and data-heavy marketing approaches via future computing speed and capacity.

• US Licensing Requirements on Nvidia H20 and AMD MI308 Chips Threaten $6.3B Revenue

  New U.S. licensing rules for Nvidia and AMD chips could cost the companies $6.3 billion in potential sales, impacting AI hardware trade with China.

• Alibaba Unveils Qwen 3 as China's AI Rivalry Intensifies

  Alibaba introduces Qwen 3, an upgraded AI model featuring hybrid reasoning, as competition in China's AI sector heats up.

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