Jun 27, 2025 5 min read Daily Rundown

🛎️ Bubble Trouble

SoftBank’s Late Bet, Altman Torches NYT, Google Triple Releases

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Cash backfills regret, new gadgets bloom, privacy PR bombs fly, and two million students cram happily ever after—does your playbook bet on capital, code, or credibility?

VENTURE

SoftBank CEO Admits He Fumbled the OpenAI Bag

📌 What’s happening: Masayoshi Son revealed Sam Altman asked him for $10 billion before 2019, and he said yes — but Microsoft swooped in instead. Now Son's going "all in" with $33.2 billion across various OpenAI deals, basically paying premium prices for what could've been a founding father discount.

🧠 How this hits reality: Son’s playing offense to reclaim SoftBank’s cachet post-WeWork fallout. Son believes OpenAI "will become the most valuable company in the world" and wants SoftBank to be the ASI platform king. Meanwhile, Microsoft's exclusive cloud deal is toast and their restructuring approval is mysteriously stalled. Classic Silicon Valley musical chairs at trillion-dollar stakes.

🛎️ Key takeaway: Masayoshi Son revealed Sam Altman asked him for $10 billion before 2019, and he said yes — but Microsoft swooped in instead.

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COPYRIGHT

Altman vs. NYT: Privacy Is the New PR Weapon

📌 What’s happening: At a live Hard Fork taping, Sam Altman publicly dragged The New York Times over its lawsuit, especially the part where they want OpenAI to keep user chat logs—even in "private mode." Altman’s take? That’s not privacy; that’s surveillance cosplay.

🧠 How this hits reality: This isn’t just a courtroom beef. If NYT gets its way, your AI “private mode” isn’t really private. That’s a UX and trust crisis waiting to happen—and a compliance nightmare for anyone shipping AI into regulated industries.

🛎️ Key takeaway: In 2025, privacy policies are product features—and Altman’s betting you’ll pick the brand that actually hits delete.

STARTUP

Knowt Hits 2.4M Visitors—Apparently Solving Studying Is a Growth Hack Now

📌 What’s happening: Knowt, the AI-powered study platform, just clocked 2.4 million new visitors in May 2025 according to AI Secret's growth report. That’s not a typo—and no, they didn’t just pay a TikTok influencer to say "quiz me daddy."

🧠 How this hits reality: Knowt went from scrappy flashcard app to edtech juggernaut by solving what every VC pitch deck pretends to care about: actual student pain points. Instead of “AI-enabled classroom disruption,” they built something students actually use—then let community and content loops do the scaling. Meanwhile, textbook publishers are still debating mobile login UX.

🛎️ Key Takeaway: Turns out “helping students not fail” beats “reinventing education” as a business model.

QUICK HITS

GitHub Integrates Anthropic's Claude 4 Models into Copilot Platform.
OpenAI Identifies Zhipu AI as China's Strategic AI Enforcer in Global Markets.
Google introduces Doppl, an AI virtual fashion try-on app, AI Ultra, a Business Subscription Add-On, and Offerwall, a new monetization tool for publishers.
NIST AI Standards Emerge as Blueprint for Federal Regulation Framework.
AI Tool Xbow Becomes First Autonomous System to Top HackerOne US Leaderboard.

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Daily AI Launches

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Clarify has launched an autonomous CRM for founders that builds pipeline, closes deals, and eliminates manual data entry.
Optibot has launched an AI GitHub guardian that reviews PRs, fixes CI issues, and keeps codebases clean post-merge.
MoodGallery has launched an emotions-to-art diary that turns daily mood logs into a growing gallery of AI-generated artwork you can share with friends.

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