OpenAI Dumps Apple, Meta Pulls the Plug, and YouTube Wants Your Face

Your Website Is the Dumbest Part of Your Business

Your website is the dumbest part of your business. Cora would like to fix that.

Cora just came out of stealth with a mildly uncomfortable observation: email optimizes itself, ads optimize themselves, pricing optimizes itself… and your website just kind of sits there. Judging. Converting poorly.

Cora's take is refreshingly blunt. The problem isn't lack of data. It's lack of action.

So instead of another dashboard telling you what users hate, Cora actually changes the site. Automatically. Continuously. No tickets. No hypotheses. No waiting for Q3.

Think: an AI UI/UX team living inside your website, quietly removing friction while you do literally anything else.

Static websites had a good run. Now they're on borrowed time.

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This Week from the AI for Founders Podcast on Spotify

Healthcare Doesn't Have a Diagnosis Problem, It Has a Time Problem — LINK

Most patients get only 13 minutes with a doctor, leading to pills instead of answers. Haresh Patel explains why founders need to build a "13-minute advantage" to give doctors their brains back rather than just building more tech.

Saturnia Design — Your "Vibe Coded MVP" Is About to Break — LINK

Need to stop guessing, audit your chaos, and validate with real users before writing another line of code.

Never Let Valuable Relationships Slip Away

Smart reminders that revive the relationships you forget. Effortless follow-ups that actually get real responses. Warmstart AI is your ticket.

Tip of the Spear

• OpenAI Ditched Apple to Build Its Own Device — Sam Altman and his team reportedly walked away from a massive Apple partnership to pursue their own dedicated AI hardware ambitions instead.
• Meta Just Killed the Office Metaverse — Another blow to Zuckerberg's immersive vision as Meta quietly shuts down its "Metaverse for Work" initiatives.
• Trump's Energy Auction Is a Nightmare for Data Centers — New administration policies on electricity auctions are driving up power costs, threatening the massive infrastructure required to power the AI boom.
• The EPA Just Busted Musk's xAI — Regulators have ruled that xAI's massive natural gas generators were operated illegally to power its AI supercluster.
• Leaked Docs Expose the Real Microsoft-OpenAI Deal — Internal files reveal the tension and financial realities behind the defining alliance between the tech giant and the AI startup.
• YouTube Wants You to Clone Yourself with AI — New tools will allow creators to generate Shorts using an official AI version of their own face and voice.
• This Robot Survived a Category 5 Hurricane — Oshen has made history by successfully deploying an ocean robot to gather crucial data directly inside the eye of a massive storm.
• Bezos Declares War on Starlink — Jeff Bezos ramps up Blue Origin and Amazon's satellite efforts to challenge SpaceX's dominance in space-based internet.

Prompt of the Week: "The Absurdly Overpowered Feature"

Analyze my startup (product, customers, revenue model, team, goals, and market context) and generate 5–7 insanely overpowered product features — features so extreme, audacious, or counterintuitive that they could redefine the market if executed.

For each feature, include:

• Feature: the over-the-top, "nobody would dare" concept
• Why It Matters: a sharp explanation of the leverage, edge, or hidden advantage it could create
• Actionable Step: one concrete experiment, iteration, or mini-launch inspired by the idea that I could implement immediately

*Instructions: Be bold, provocative, and imaginative — push beyond conventional limits. Avoid generic or safe suggestions. Focus on uncovering hidden differentiators, unconventional growth opportunities, and moves that could give your startup an unfair advantage.*

Keep It Moving

• X Open Sources Code While Paying Fines — In a chaotic move, X releases its algorithm code simultaneously while battling transparency fines and controversies over Grok.
• Silicon Valley's Ugliest Breakup Is Going to Court — The drama isn't over yet as a high-profile startup split escalates into a full-blown legal battle.
• Threads Just Passed X in Users — New data reveals Meta's text app has finally edged out Elon Musk's X in daily mobile usage.
• The Rise of Micro-Apps: Why You Might Stop Buying Software — Non-developers are taking control of software creation by building "micro-apps."
• OpenAI Is Funding Mind-Reading Tech (Yes, Really) — The AI giant has invested in Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup backed by Sam Altman.
• Ads Are Finally Coming to ChatGPT — The ad-free era is ending as OpenAI begins rolling out advertising within ChatGPT.
• Murdoch's Empire Just Bet Big on This AI Startup — Symbolic AI has secured a major partnership with News Corp.
• Google Promises No Ads in Gemini — DeepMind's CEO confirms there are currently no plans to clutter the Gemini AI model with advertisements.
• Ex-Googlers Are Reinventing Kids' Learning — A trio of former Google employees launches an interactive, AI-first application designed to change how children learn.
• Musk Reboots Tesla's Supercomputer Project — Tesla is restarting development on Dojo3 for autonomous driving.
• Apple's Plan to Save Siri from OpenAI — Apple is reportedly overhauling Siri into a full-fledged built-in chatbot for iPhone and Mac.

What I'm Thinking About

• Should you be calling your company a family? — Clip
• Turning Fear into Growth — Interview
• Machine Intelligence Behind The Scenes — Blog
• Uncover the AI tools you didn't ask for, but now you're weirdly into

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Thanks for being here.

-Ryan

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