Google arms robots, Altman admits the vibes are bad, and Bezos unretires: everything’s fine

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I hope your Thanksgiving is peaceful.

Or at least free of anyone asking you to “fix the Wi-Fi because you work in tech.”

I’m grateful you’re here, building wild things, shipping experiments, and generally proving that founders are incapable of sitting still, even on holidays.

As we close out the year, I want to highlight more of your work inside AI for Founders.

If you’re building something worth showing off: product launches, demos, agents, workflows, experiments, apps, decks, whatever, send me the link.

Reply with what you're building. I’ll share with the 27,000 friends of this newsletter/podcast.

Let’s dive in.

This week from the AI for Founders podcast on Spotify:

Greg Brogger on Collective Liquidity – LINK

Late-stage startup equity might be making you rich on paper and poor in real life — here’s how founders are quietly turning locked-up unicorn stock into real, diversified wealth without paying a tax bomb.

AI Identity & Deepfake-Proof Security with Beyond Identity – LINK

AI is now good enough to impersonate you—but this episode shows how founders can kill passwords entirely, stop deepfake attackers cold, and give their AI agents cryptographic identities of their own.

Tip of the spear:

Lovable CEO Targets Enterprise Customers — LINK
 Lovable pivots to enterprise sales—consumer brands eyeing B2B deals isn’t a pivot, it’s a plea for predictable revenue.

Google Hires Boston Dynamics CTO for Robot Push — LINK
 DeepMind poaches Boston Dynamics’ CTO—Google is quietly building the hardware muscle to put robots in the wild.

Leaked Memo: Sam Altman Admits “Rough Vibes” at OpenAI — LINK
 A leaked memo from Altman flags internal turbulence and economic headwinds—culture risk is becoming public strategy risk.

Bezos Returns as AI Co-CEO — LINK
 Jeff Bezos jumps back into the founder seat to lead a new AI startup—because billionaires apparently don’t do retirement.

Musk Announces Massive X.AI Data Center in Saudi Arabia — LINK
 Elon Musk vows to build a mega X.AI data hub in Saudi Arabia—geopolitics just joined the cloud pricing party.

Trump Drafts Order to Block State AI Laws — LINK
 A draft executive order would stop states from making their own AI rules—federal preemption could kill local innovation or save compliance headaches, depending on who you ask.

Prompt of the week:

Every startup runs on a layer of effort, assumptions, and micro-decisions that nobody consciously notices. Dig into my business (product, customers, revenue model, team, goals, and market context) and surface 5–10 pieces of “invisible work” that quietly shape outcomes but rarely get acknowledged or optimized.

For each invisible element, include:

Hidden Dynamic: the unnoticed behavior, pattern, or dependency
Why It Matters: a sharp explanation of how it influences growth, cost, quality, or strategy
 Actionable Step: one concrete way to expose it, measure it, automate it, eliminate it, or turn it into an advantage

Keep it smart, curious, and slightly provocative — the aim is to reveal blind spots, unowned responsibilities, unpriced value, and subtle forces that steer the business more than anyone realizes. The goal: make the invisible visible and turn quiet inefficiencies into high-leverage improvements.

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Keep it moving

Cloudflare Outage Post-Mortem — LINK
 Cloudflare’s outage shines a spotlight on single-point infrastructure risk—your uptime SLA might be a fantasy policy.

Meta’s Yann LeCun Exits to Start a Company — LINK
Yann LeCun leaves Meta to found a startup—when top AI talent bolts, partnerships and talent pipelines matter more than ever.

Google’s Nano Banana for Gemini 3 — LINK
 Google teases a quirky “Nano Banana” chip for Gemini 3—marketing names aside, chips are the new competitive moat.

ICIJ Exposes the Crypto “Coin Laundry” — LINK
 An international exposé reveals how a shadowy network launders crypto for criminals—your on-chain signals might not be as innocent as you think.

Google WeatherNext 2 Arrives — LINK
 Google’s WeatherNext 2 promises eerily prescient forecasts—prepare for ads that predict when you’ll forget your umbrella.

Prime Video Adds AI-Generated Recaps — LINK
Prime Video will auto-summarize shows with AI—because who has time for an hour of TV anymore?

Uber Eats Trials Starship Sidewalk Robots in UK — LINK
 Uber Eats will pilot sidewalk delivery robots—prepare for the day your burrito arrives with zero tip expectation.

Android Quick Share Finally Talks to AirDrop — LINK
 Quick Share syncing with AirDrop on Pixel 10s means cross-OS friction just got smaller—file sharing fights are winding down.

Perplexity Brings Comet AI Browser to Android — LINK
 Perplexity’s AI browser Comet lands on Android—browsers are being rebundled as AI platforms and your ad strategy should follow.

Blue Origin Reveals Saturn-V-Taller New Glenn Variant — LINK
Blue Origin unveils a super-heavy New Glenn taller than Saturn V—space mega-capacity is back, and launch economics will be interesting.

OpenAI Taps Foxconn to Build AI Hardware in the U.S. — LINK
 OpenAI partners with Foxconn to build US AI hardware—onshoring AI supply chains just went mainstream.

Google Tests “Ads in AI Mode” — LINK
 Google experiments with ads inside AI answers—monetizing helpfulness could ruin user trust faster than bad clickbait.

Gmail Lets You Opt-Out of AI Training Data — LINK
 Gmail offers an opt-out for using emails to train AI—privacy controls are finally making product tradeoffs visible to users.

Apple Research Publishes LLM Study on Audio & Motion — LINK
 Apple’s research into LLMs using audio and motion hints at future features that know where you are and what you’re doing—“helpful” or “creepy”?

Anthropic Claude Hack Sparks “Evil” Scenarios — LINK
 A hack of Anthropic Claude raises nightmare scenarios—model security failures are now headline risks, not hypothetical warnings.

Google Closes the Curtain on Ad Tech Trial — LINK
Closing arguments in Google’s ad-tech case could reshape programmatic advertising—ad ops and privacy are closer to a regulatory cliff than you thought.

Neuralink’s First Patient May Get Dual Implant Upgrade — LINK
Neuralink eyes a dual-implant upgrade for its first patient—brain-computer interfaces are inching toward real medical iterations.

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-Ryan

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