Chinese robot walks its shoes off, X implodes, OpenAI drops a Jony Ive mystery gadget while ChatGPT goes shopping.

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This week from the AI for Founders podcast on Spotify:

Commitify – The AI Accountability Coach That Actually Calls You LINK
An inside look at the founders building an AI coach with personalities that literally call your phone to drag you back into flow when your willpower taps out.

Penbrothers – The Global Talent Engine Powering 90+ Startups LINK
A candid masterclass on scaling with offshore talent from the founder who spent 22 years in Asia building the Philippines’ most proven startup workforce machine.

DATAROCKiT – Turning Legacy Chaos Into AI-Ready Fuel LINK
How enterprises go from hallucinating AIs to revenue-shipping systems by transforming decades of messy data into clean, trustworthy intelligence in hours, not years.

Aryn.ai – Mining the Trillion-Dollar Gold Rush of Unstructured Data LINK
Former AWS legend Mehul Shah breaks down how to unlock the 90% of enterprise data no one can currently analyze — and why invisible AI will eat the world.

Kadence – Turning Your Broken Hybrid Office Into a Competitive Advantage LINK
A brutally honest look at office chaos, hybrid confusion, and how Kadence helps companies turn empty desks and bad leases into mentorship, morale, and momentum.

Tip of the spear:

ChatGPT Becomes a Product-Hunting Shopping Agent — LINK OpenAI wants ChatGPT to replace comparison sites with a new feature that auto-researches and recommends products.

OpenAI + Jony Ive Hardware Prototype Revealed — LINK Leaked details show a sleek, mysterious AI hardware gadget co-designed by Jony Ive and Sam Altman.

X’s New "About This Account" Feature Going Terribly — LINK X launched a transparency tool and instantly became a meme after users exposed hilarious inaccuracies.

Chinese Humanoid Robot Walks 100km, Needs New Shoes — LINK A Chinese robot broke a world record by walking 100km—literally wearing out its shoes like a tired marathoner.

Warner Music Strikes Deal with AI Music Startup Suno — LINK Warner flips from suing to signing a deal with Suno, betting big on AI-generated music.

Bezos’ Project Prometheus Buys Another AI Startup — LINK Jeff Bezos is quietly assembling an AI empire, snapping up yet another agentic-AI startup.

Alibaba’s New Quark AR Glasses Drop—with a Wild Price — LINK Alibaba’s AI glasses finally go on sale, offering surprisingly advanced features at an eyebrow-raising price.

Prompt of the week:

“Unlocking Industry Taboos” 

Analyze my business and expose the core industry taboo that everyone else accepts but I should challenge. Identify 3–5 deep, structural assumptions in my market, then select the one that is most ripe for disruption. For that taboo, provide:

1. The Taboo: the belief, norm, or rule my industry treats as sacred.
   

2. Why It Exists: who benefits from it, why it hasn’t been questioned, and what incentives keep it alive.
   

3. Why It’s Wrong (or Weakening): the data, customer behavior, market shifts, or technological changes that show this belief is outdated.

4. The Advantage for Me: how breaking this taboo could create an asymmetric edge for my startup.

5. A Bold Move: one uncomfortable, high-leverage action I can take this week to start challenging it — practical, specific, non-generic.

Tone: direct, contrarian, and strategically sharp. Don’t give generic “think outside the box” fluff — surface the uncomfortable truths, political dynamics, hidden incentives, or customer realities that founders usually don’t want to look at. Push me.

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Keep it moving

ChatGPT Voice Is Now Fully Integrated, No More Separate Mode — LINK OpenAI merges voice and text into a single interface, making AI assistants feel more like real-time companions.

Meta Confirms AI Assistant “Leaving WhatsApp” — LINK Meta is quietly pulling its AI tools out of WhatsApp amid ongoing regulatory pressure.

Coding Sites Leak Government & Bank Credentials — LINK Security researchers discovered thousands of sensitive logins accidentally exposed via coding-helper sites.

Trump’s “Genesis Mission” Wants a Centralized AI for Science — LINK A new initiative aims to build a single giant U.S. AI system to accelerate science across every domain.

Anthropic Drops Opus 4.5: Cheaper, Longer Context, More Powerful — LINK Anthropic’s latest model slashes costs and unlocks ultra-long chats, stirring pressure on OpenAI.

Amazon’s LEO Ultra Satellite Internet Revealed — LINK Amazon finally details its high-speed satellite internet, promising speeds to rival Starlink.

Epic’s CEO Wants Steam to Hide AI Labels on Games — LINK Epic is pressuring Steam to stop telling players when games use AI, igniting a fight over transparency in gaming.

Hackers Exploit Apple Podcasts to Auto-Open Attack Sites — LINK A weird security flaw let attackers trigger automatic webpage openings through Apple Podcasts episode data.

Chinese Startup Claims Chip Faster Than NVIDIA’s A100 — LINK A stealth startup founded by a former Googler says its new TPU beats NVIDIA’s A100—by a lot.

Musk’s xAI Building Solar Farm Next to “Colossus” — LINK Elon plans to power his mega-data-center with an on-site solar farm—creating a sci-fi-looking AI fortress.

Google Quietly Caps Free Gemini 3 Pro Usage — LINK Google slipped new limits into Gemini 3 Pro’s “free” tier, sparking user backlash over shrinking AI access.

OpenAI Confirms Data Breach After Partner Phished — LINK OpenAI says sensitive internal data was accessed after an analytics vendor fell for a phishing scam.

China’s Tech Giants Secretly Training AI offshore — LINK Major Chinese firms are quietly moving AI training out of the mainland to dodge looming regulations.

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:

• The Growth Strategy for Founders - Blog

• Team Growth - Interview

• Tech Time Capsule- Blog

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Thanks for being here.

-Ryan

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