Your teen can’t use TikTok anymore, but Google can put AI in space, and Palantir says chill about surveillance

Denmark Cancels Teenagers, MIT Cancels Its Own AI Research, and Palantir Cancels Privacy

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Ryan Estes
November 15, 2025

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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Let’s dive in.

This week from the AI for Founders podcast on Spotify:

The Startup Founder’s Worst Nightmare, And the One Guy Who Built a Way Out - LINK
When your entire net worth is trapped in a late-stage startup purgatory, Greg Brogger reveals the back-door liquidity play founders aren’t supposed to know exists.

The AI That Never Sleeps And Steals Every Missed Dollar From Your Competitors - LINK
Christian Wiens shows how Loman AI hijacks up to 40 percent of lost restaurant calls and turns them into instant revenue with a sub-500ms voice agent that sounds more human than the staff.

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

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Tip of the spear:

Google Plans AI Data Centers… in SPACE – LINK
Google wants to beam AI compute from orbit, turning space into the next competitive cloud battleground.

Denmark Moves to Ban Social Media for All Kids Under 15 – LINK
One of the strictest internet policies in the world could soon block all teens from Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat overnight.

MIT Quietly Pulls Nonsense AI Cybersecurity Paper After Backlash – LINK
A bizarre, error-filled AI paper slipped past peer review, and MIT silently scrubbed it once experts called it “AI-generated junk.”

Cringey ChatGPT Logs Unexpectedly Found Inside Google Analytics – LINK
An internal Google tool accidentally exposed a batch of personal and hilariously awkward ChatGPT conversation logs.

OpenAI Asks Government for Major Tax Credit Extension for AI Data Centers – LINK
OpenAI is lobbying for billions in tax incentives as it races to expand the compute footprint needed to train its next models.

Palantir CEO Says Surveillance State Is “Preferable” to China Winning the AI Race – LINK
The CEO sparked outrage with comments suggesting mass surveillance is the “lesser evil” in a world of AI geopolitical competition.

 Intel Accuses Engineer of Stealing Billions Worth of Trade Secrets – LINK
The company claims a former employee smuggled out some of its most sensitive chip technology in one of its biggest-ever leaks.

Prompt of the week:

The “Customer Plot Twist” Analysis

Analyze my startup (product, customers, revenue model, team, goals, and market context) and identify 5–10 surprising customer behaviors that would completely change how we build, market, or sell, the kinds of plot twists real users pull that nobody on the team expects.

For each plot twist, include:

Unexpected Behavior: the surprising or counterintuitive thing the customer might actually do

Why It Matters: a punchy explanation of how this behavior reshapes my assumptions

Actionable Step: one concrete test, message, or product tweak to explore this insight immediately

Keep it smart, curious, and lightly playful. The goal is to uncover strange-but-real patterns, hidden motivations, and behavior quirks that open new doors for growth or differentiation. Think “user research meets plot twist writing room.

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Keep it moving

Tesla Shareholders Approve Elon Musk’s Wild $1 Trillion Pay Package – LINK
Musk just secured one of the largest pay packages in corporate history, betting the future of Tesla on explosive AI growth.

Google Research Says It Finally Simulated Neuroplasticity in AI – LINK
A new model mimics how human brains rewire themselves, potentially unlocking dramatically faster AI learning.

DeepMind & Mathematician Terence Tao Use AI to Unlock New Math Insights – LINK
DeepMind’s latest system is producing mathematical breakthroughs alongside one of the greatest living mathematicians.

The Next Big Quantum Computer Has Arrived – LINK
A new quantum machine promises to push past existing limits and finally deliver practical, high-impact quantum workloads.

Google Unleashes New Ironwood TPUs as AI Inference Demand Explodes – LINK
Google dropped a new generation of TPUs designed to meet the skyrocketing compute needs of next-gen AI systems.

Meta Announces $600 Billion U.S. Investment Centered on AI Data Centers – LINK
Meta is promising one of the biggest tech investments in U.S. history as AI infrastructure becomes its top priority.

U.S. Moves to Block Nvidia’s Scaled AI Chip Sales to China – LINK
American regulators are tightening the screws again as chip exports become a geopolitical chess piece.

China Officially Bans All Foreign AI Chips – LINK
China is cutting off its market from Nvidia, AMD, and others in a sweeping move to control its domestic AI stack.

Foxconn Shows Off Humanoid Robots Powered by Nvidia Servers – LINK
Foxconn unveiled humanoid robots backed by Nvidia’s server tech in a push to reshape manufacturing automation.

XPeng’s Humanoid Robot With Synthetic Skin Ships in 2026 – LINK
XPeng’s ultra-realistic “Iron Human” robot promises eerily humanlike movement, and skin.

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:

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Thanks for being here.

-Ryan

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