Growth Daily: AI Beyond Intelligence, Vibe-Coded Apps & the Rise of AI Dating🔥

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03 Jul   |   Read online In partnership with      Community | University  July 03, 2026 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. Let’s dive in.👇 Quick Hits AI is 'not smart' so what's next in artificial intelligence? (AI isn't "smart"... it's just making us question what smart even means 😭) Meta quietly launches vibe-coded gaming app Pocket (Meta launching a vibe-coded game because apparently every AI demo becomes an app now 💀) Yep, we’re using OpenClaw to date now (We really speedran from using AI for work... to using it for dating ️)         The Growth joke of the day AI keeps evolving. The humans are the ones trying to keep up. 🤖         What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing? Strategies Google’s Mueller Flags A Case On Why LCP Fixes Miss the Target Google Search Advocate John Mueller highlights a new case study explaining why certain Largest Contentful Paint improvements often fail to produce results. In a layout that varies by store, the browser may focus on the wrong element, causing all subsequent optimizations to target something that was never the LCP in the first place. Reddit rolls out split testing to all advertisers Reddit’s ad split testing will enable marketers to run two ad variants at the same time, in order to determine the best performer. Whichever ad does the best will then be the focus of an expanded campaign. Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become I can’t tell the exact tipping point from realistic excitement over a new technology, to hype, to aww-come-on — but I’m pretty sure when a sandwich shop with Danny DeVito as its public face talks about AI in its IPO documents, we must be getting close. Melinda Gates’ venture firm backs Magnify Ventures’ $46.6M Fund II Founded in 2021 by Joanna Drake and Julie Wroblewski, Magnify invests in companies that target the care economy, such as those building assistive robotics, family cybersecurity, and AI for home use. Google Puts Recipe Links At Top Of AI Mode Responses Google has launched a new visual treatment in AI Mode that places links to recipe sites at the top of responses for relevant recipe queries. Robby Stein, VP of Product for Google Search, announced the change in a post on X. _____________________________________________________________ People Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped Replacing people with AI doesn’t seem to be that easy to do, if Meta can be seen as an example.         What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI)  Google Ends Cache-Served AMP Pages In Search Google Search has changed how it handles AMP pages.As of July 1, clicking an AMP result will take you to the domain’s AMP host page instead of a version served from Google’s AMP cache. Meta will charge for access to advanced AI features The signs are not looking great for Meta’s expanded artificial intelligence ambitions. The company is now looking to add more charges to access its advanced AI tools as it works to offset its massive investment into infrastructure and development.         Hansø Pergolas: Built for American Backyards Rooted in American craftsmanship and built to withstand the full range of American weather. Sun, wind, rain, snow - a Hansø pergola handles all of it without flinching. Recommended by 1,200+ contractors nationwide. 17,000+ products sold across the country. And a connected warehouse network that spans the U.S. Backed by 40+ years of experience and the trust of homeowners from coast to coast. This 4th of July, America's most popular pergola brand is offering Pro+ Pergola and Horizon Smart Pergola at 30% off - plus a free Bluetooth speaker for every pergola order. Built for America. On sale for America. Find My Pergola Now         Update your email preferences or unsubscribe here © 2026 GrowthHackers' Newsletter 388 Market St, 1300 San Francisco , California 94111, United States Powered by beehiiv Terms of Service

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Tesla 6-seat Model Y 🚙, Meta's AI disappointment 🤖, the understanding bottleneck 🧠

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Sign Up |Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With TLDR 2026-07-03 Reach 7 million engaged tech professionals (Sponsor) Ads get ignored on social media but not in TLDR! Reach developers, PMs, marketers, founders and other tech leaders where they actually pay attention. Learn more about sponsorship opportunities. 📱 Big Tech & Startups Model Y Long Wheelbase (3 minute read) The Model Y Long Wheelbase is now available in the US and Puerto Rico. The 3-row, 6-seat configuration has ample headroom and legroom for all passengers. The trunk fits a 28" and a 20" suitcase each, and the frunk can hold an additional 20" suitcase. More details about the wheelbase, along with pictures and videos of the vehicle, are available in the post. Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed as quickly as he'd hoped (2 minute read) Mark Zuckerberg told staff during an internal town hall on Thursday that the pace of AI agent development was not accelerating in the way executives had previously expected it to. He has apparently commented that the job cuts earlier this year were not as clean as they should have been. The perceived upside of the company's new AI-focused structure has not come to fruition yet. Zuckerberg says that the company will begin to see improvements from its AI investments in the next three to six months. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology FAA proposal: Supersonic airliners can fly over US cities if they're quiet (3 minute read) The US Federal Aviation Administration has proposed a new rule that would allow commercial supersonic airliners as long as they can reduce the ground-level impacts of their sonic booms. The new rule would require any sonic boom overpressure at the surface to be kept below 0.11 pounds per square foot. Critics of the new rule say it doesn't actually consider loudness or annoyance. Legalization of quieter supersonic flights doesn't guarantee a successful comeback for commercial supersonic airliners - Concorde's massive fuel consumption made it difficult to sustain profitable operations. China Quant Funds Draw Billions as AI Trounces Human Traders (7 minute read) Quants' assets under management in China have more than doubled in less than a year to over 2.6 trillion yuan. The trend is being fueled by the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence. Quants' breadth in covering thousands of stocks has made it mainstream. Funds are responding to the frenzy by creating new investment products. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Understanding is the new bottleneck (11 minute read) It's still important to understand the code that agents write. Agent work needs to be understood to verify that it is correct. This understanding is required for humans to participate in the creative process. This presentation discusses techniques for building human understanding when working with AI and moving fast. Building an Intern (22 minute read) 'Junior' is an AI intern in Slack. Users can give it information to work with, review the work, and steer the agent in the right direction. This article discusses the process of developing Junior, which took over four months. The full source for the project is available. 🎁 Miscellaneous TLDR is hiring a curator for TLDR AI! (TLDR Curator, ~5 hrs/week) Over 1M subscribers read TLDR AI to stay on top of the latest in AI models, research, engineering, and more. If you work in AI and want to help curate it, send your LinkedIn or resume to ai@tldr.tech! Meta's Inevitable Cloud (13 minute read) After years of trying to diversify, Meta is still almost entirely an ad business. The company's latest solution to that problem is AI. AI will be used to supercharge its ads business, but it will also ideally unlock other businesses. One of these businesses is Meta's newly announced cloud service. Career advice in the age of AI (11 minute read) The valuable work of the next decade is everything that can't be graded within the span of model training. Focus on resources that are truly limited and learn to find problems in addition to solving them. Work on the most ambitious form of a problem and learn to execute well in the last mile. Put yourself in the right position to see opportunities. The key to unlocking opportunity is to focus on finding interesting problems and delivering extraordinary results. ⚡ Quick Links A new trend, smart model routing (3 minute read) Intelligent routing is becoming table stakes. Microsoft unveils $2.5B ‘Frontier Company' to embed AI engineers inside customers (5 minute read) The Microsoft Frontier Company will embed engineers inside customers to build and run AI systems. Skill engineering and the case against one-shot AI design (7 minute read) Agents need domain knowledge, context, and carefully defined ways for humans to steer the result. Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung (2 minute read) Anthropic has yet to decide what the chip will be used for, how it will fit into the server, or how powerful it will be. Cloudflare sets deadline to block AI crawlers that bundle search with AI training (10 minute read) AI crawlers have until September to separate bots that gather content for search from those that harvest it for training or be blocked on pages that carry ads. Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200/week except for Grok (6 minute read) The cap is a sign that even companies betting their future on AI are struggling to control their costs. 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