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Quick Hits

Meta adds new creator publishing tools
(The creator economy keeps evolving faster than most actual jobs.)
GA4 now tracks AI chatbot traffic automatically
(GA4 tracking AI chatbot traffic automatically is actually a massive shift.)
Apple’s Siri revamp could include auto-deleting chats
(Apple said privacy but make it disappear instantly.)

The Growth joke of the day

SEO experts watching AI chatbots become a traffic source:
“Cool… another algorithm to emotionally depend on.” 💀

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

What Google’s UCP Tells Us About Agent-Ready Websites
Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol is the first production blueprint for what every website (ecommerce or not) will eventually need to expose to AI agents: discoverable actions, predictable outcomes, persistent sessions, and explicit agent policies.
Meta expands advanced ad placement controls to Threads
Meta is giving Threads advertisers more brand safety options, with an expansion of its support for third-party block lists to ad placements in the app. These controls are already available for ads on Meta’s other platforms.
AI is moving too fast for static strategies
Most AI strategies I see right now are built around one thing: predicting the future. Companies spend months building plans. They forecast where AI will be in two years. They get everyone to agree. They get sign-off. They launch. By then? Something’s already changed.
SandboxAQ brings its drug discovery models to Claude
The company has teamed up with Anthropic to integrate its scientific AI models directly into Claude putting powerful drug discovery and materials science tools behind a conversational interface that requires no specialized computing infrastructure to use.
Solar to dominate energy by 2035, but AI data centers will keep fossil fuels in business
Solar will become the largest source of power in the next decade, surpassing coal, oil and natural gas, according to a new report from BloombergNEF. The tectonic shift will occur alongside a historic rise in the use of energy driven by AI and the electrification of entire industries.
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People

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
Musk accused Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft of “stealing a charity” by creating a for-profit affiliate of the frontier AI lab. Jurors, however, found that any harms that Musk may have suffered came before the deadline for filing his claims under the law.

What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

LinkedIn adds AI-powered job outreach
LinkedIn is rolling out yet another artificial intelligence-powered tool for HR pros, with recruiters now able to send AI-generated targeted outreach to the top candidates for a role, based on an automated assessment of the job’s requirements, and how each candidate matches those specifics.
Customer experience outweighs brand in AI-assisted shopping
Many brands still approach AI visibility as an SEO problem. The existing playbook emphasizes tactics such as optimizing content for machine-readability, building third-party authority, and structuring data so models can parse it more effectively.
It Works Until It Doesn’t: AI Content Strategies That Backfire
Over the past few years, I’ve watched AI content creation tools rapidly gain adoption across the SEO/GEO industry. These tools offer the promise of leveraging AI to automate content creation, reduce headcount, cut costs, and scale output.
Google-Agent: The Web’s New Visitor Just Got An Identity
Google-Agent is the user agent string for AI systems running on Google infrastructure that browse websites on behalf of users. When someone asks an AI assistant to research a product, fill out a form, or compare options across websites, Google-Agent is the thing that actually visits the page.

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