Altman drops morality, DeepMind cracks cancer, and Jobs gets coined

China takes flight. AI loses its halo.

Startups aren’t built in boardrooms.
They're forged, one hard moment at a time.

Learn from the GOATs on the Code Story Podcast

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I met some awesome folks from our roll call last week. Love the builders. Check out some projects here from your fellow founders:

ambient.us - Your AI Chief of Staff that preps you for every meeting, keeps your team accountable & aligned, and helps you stay on top of key initiatives.

credyt.ai - A monetization solution designed specifically for startups with AI at their core.

inboxalchemy.co - Full-service newsletter strategy, writing, design, and audience growth — tailored for startups, creators, and media companies ready to scale.

cleorobotics.com - We build robots designed to operate in environments that are expensive, slow, or unsafe for humans or traditional robots to access.

dr. kumar discovery podcast - Dr Kumar challenges conventional medical dogma and offers fresh perspectives on optimizing health and wellness.

organizedchaos.fyi - The Startup HR Operating System, a self-paced online course that helps HR professionals.

suavecitotequila.com. - Tequila experts all rank Suavecito as the best tasting tequila sold in America.

redskyhealth.com -We use AI to fix health insurance claim denials (a $500 billion a year problem for healthcare providers).

stay22.com - We empower creators & publishers to excel by effortlessly monetizing their content (web and social media).

code story - A podcast featuring founders, tech leaders, CTO's, CEO's, and software architects, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products.

datarockit.com - Transforms legacy mainframe, unstructured cloud, and overprovisioned LLM data into clean, trustworthy, AI-ready assets in hours.
 
Let’s dive in.

This week from the AI for Founders podcast on Spotify:

The $100M Founder Who Built Your AI Chief of Staff — LINK
Lawrence Coburn reveals how Ambient turns your calendar into an AI that preps you, tracks priorities, and upgrades every leadership decision.

From HP to AI: The Product Strategist Rewiring How Founders Build — LINK
Drew Falkman shares how AI tools like Lovable and Magic Patterns are collapsing product timelines from months to days.

Winning the Comment Section with AI — LINK
Hank Leber breaks down how Stanify.ai turns your comment section into conversions with human-in-the-loop, multilingual AI.

Begin every day with total clarity.
Ambient reads your calendar and builds investor dossiers so you don’t have to.

Show up sharp. Close the deal. ambient.us

Tip of the spear:

Altman Says OpenAI Won’t Be “Moral Police” — LINK
Sam Altman defends creative freedom after reports of ChatGPT limiting adult-themed fiction, reigniting the debate over AI and morality.

China’s Flying Taxi Takes Off — LINK
A Chinese tech firm unveils a fully autonomous air taxi with a 100-mile range, pushing urban transport into sci-fi territory.

Steve Jobs Gets a Commemorative U.S. Dollar — LINK
The U.S. Mint honors Apple’s late cofounder with a collectible coin marking his impact on technology and design.

Google AI Cracks New Cancer Code — LINK
Google’s DeepMind researchers say their latest AI can predict genetic mutations behind multiple cancers with unprecedented accuracy.

SpaceX Shows Off Next-Gen Starlink Satellite — LINK
Elon Musk unveils the Starlink V3, promising gigabit internet from orbit and a major leap toward global broadband dominance.

Prompt of the week:

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In partnership:

Are you raising venture capital?

The Ambient Daily Briefing connects to your calendar and prepares detailed research dossiers for each investor meeting on your calendar.

Walk into every meeting prepared, focused and ready.

Crush your financing process. ambient.us

Keep it moving

Paxos Accidentally Mints $300 Trillion — LINK
A blockchain glitch briefly created $300 trillion in tokens, highlighting the razor-thin margin between innovation and catastrophe.

Google’s Veo 3.1 Makes AI Video Even Crazier — LINK
The latest Veo update brings cinematic realism, smoother motion, and better human modeling—making text-to-film feel real.

Microsoft Brings Voice & Vision to Windows Copilot — LINK
Copilot now sees and speaks—Windows’ biggest AI upgrade yet blurs the line between assistant and co-worker.

U.S. Seizes Record $15 Billion in Bitcoin — LINK
Federal agents recover a staggering $15 billion in crypto from online fraud operations—the largest digital asset seizure in history.

OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Ambition — LINK
With a $13 billion war chest, OpenAI sets a five-year plan to create a trillion-dollar company—and maybe redefine capitalism along the way.

Spotify’s Video Podcasts Coming to Netflix — LINK
Spotify and Netflix are joining forces to stream video podcasts, turning creators into full-fledged entertainment brands overnight.

Code Story Podcast: It’s like therapy for startup founders, except the therapist is a microphone and everyone’s listening. Code, chaos, and confessions served weekly.

What I’m thinking about:

  • Tesla’s Lightning Legacy: The Colorado Springs Experiment Blog

  • What if your biggest success came from a total collapse? Interview

  • Give people their flowers when they earn them. Interview

  • Escape The Algorithm: Own Your Audience in 90 Days Blog

Uncover the AI tools (here) you didn’t ask for, but now you’re weirdly into.

Thanks for being here.

-Ryan

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