Australia’s AI Anxiety: OpenAI’s $3B Windsurf Buy & Epic Games vs Apple App-Store Ruling, How-tos, and more

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This week on Built 2 Scale, Scott’s caffeine shakes are finally under control, Matt’s new Mac has quit gas-lighting him, and Australia tops a brand-new chart—for fearing AI more than any other country. From a paralyzed creator who edited a YouTube video with his thoughts to Stripe’s surgical strike on Apple’s 30 % cut, the lads unpack the future of robots, regulation, and founder productivity in one fast hour.

Topics

Australia’s AI trust gap – only 30 % of Aussies believe the benefits outweigh the risks; why the dread?

Archistar × LA wildfire rebuild – Sydney prop-tech picked to slash permit times with generative zoning AI.

OpenAI + Windsurf – $3 B coding-assistant grab to cement Sam Altman’s “Apple of AI” stack.

Stripe’s 2.5 % escape route – Epic v. Apple ruling lets devs dodge the App Store toll booth.

“Smartest CEOs” list – NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang tops linguistic IQ rankings; Demis Hassabis, Reed Hastings, and Patrick Collison follow.

Neuralink telepathy – patient edits and uploads a full YouTube video using only brain signals.

Physical Intelligence’s $400 M laundry bots – Bezos backs household chore automation.

Tool Hacks

NotebookLM → spin any doc pile into a walk-and-learn podcast

Granola note-taker → one-click transcript ➜ templated minutes

MyMind → screenshot-to-second-brain for visual thinkers

HiDock H1 recorder → AirPods-powered voice capture ➜ AI task list

Limitless Pendant → always-on memory and meeting summaries

Robot Rundown

Unitree G1 sticks the first standing side-flip (on a $16 K bot).

Single-purpose chore bots—from folding tees to bussing tables—are everywhere.

DJI Dock 3 gives warehouses an always-ready drone workforce. Insights Home

NVIDIA Omniverse & Isaac Sim are where the next robot brains are growing up.

Why capturing SOPs today protects your craft in a robot-tomorrow world.

Resources & Mentions

KPMG AI Trust Study – https://kpmg.com/au/

Archistar – https://archistar.ai

Windsurf – https://windsurf.ai

Stripe In-App Kit – https://stripe.com

Neuralink – https://neuralink.com

Physical Intelligence – https://physicalintelligence.company

Unitree G1 – https://unitree.com/products/g1

NotebookLM – https://notebooklm.google

Granola – https://granola.ai

MyMind – https://mymind.com

HiDock H1 – https://hidock.com

Limitless Pendant – https://limitless.ai/pendant

NVIDIA Omniverse / Isaac Sim – https://developer.nvidia.com/isaac/sim

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