✨ Morning, Enthusiasts

From OpenAI’s $38B AWS deal and Microsoft’s $15B UAE expansion to Lambda’s GPU supercomputers and Palantir’s AI surge, this week’s issue tracks the power moves shaping the AI era. Plus, explore Higgsfield’s cinematic AI films, Studio Ghibli’s copyright pushback, and how AI is saving lives in clinics worldwide.

OPENAI

🚀OpenAI Strikes $38 Billion Cloud Deal With Amazon AWS to Boost AI Infrastructure

In a landmark move, OpenAI and Amazon Web Services have inked a $38 billion, multi-year partnership to power the next generation of frontier AI models from ChatGPT to future agentic systems using Nvidia’s most advanced GPUs.

Highlights:

• OpenAI will run its advanced workloads on AWS UltraServers powered by hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GB200 and GB300 GPUs.

• Capacity will scale to tens of millions of CPUs by 2027.

• AWS clusters deliver record-low latency for training and inference at planetary scale.

• Builds on OpenAI’s earlier move to make open-weight models available on Amazon Bedrock.

• Sam Altman: “Scaling frontier AI requires massive, reliable compute.”

Why it matters:
The partnership unites OpenAI’s frontier research, Nvidia’s chip dominance, and AWS’s cloud infrastructure muscle shaping a new era of AI-at-scale, where compute, data, and intelligence converge to drive the next wave of global innovation.

MICROSOFT

💰 Microsoft Invests $15.2 Billion in UAE for AI Expansion

Microsoft is investing $15.2 billion USD in the UAE through 2029, deepening its partnership with G42 to boost AI infrastructure, talent, and innovation across the region.

Highlights:

• $7.3 B invested since 2023, including $1.5 B in G42 and $4.6 B in AI datacenters.

• Another $7.9 B planned through 2029 for expansion and operations.

• Over 80,000 Nvidia GPUs (A100, H100, GB300) approved for export.

• New AI Engineering Center and AI for Good Lab in Abu Dhabi.

• Goal: 1 million UAE residents skilled by 2027.

Why it matters:
The investment cements the UAE as a global AI hub merging Microsoft’s cloud, Nvidia’s compute, and G42’s regional leadership to drive trusted AI growth.

QUICK HITS

Studio Ghibli and Japanese Publishers Urge OpenAI to Halt AI Training on Their Works

Studio Ghibli and Japan’s Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA) have urged OpenAI to stop using copyrighted Japanese media to train its AI models without permission, citing potential violations of Japan’s copyright laws as AI recreations in Ghibli’s signature style surge across ChatGPT and Sora 2.

Lambda Strikes Multibillion-Dollar AI Infrastructure Deal with Microsoft

Nvidia-backed Lambda has signed a multibillion-dollar AI infrastructure deal with Microsoft to deploy tens of thousands of Nvidia GB300 NVL72 GPUs, expanding its supercomputing network and deepening their eight-year partnership amid a global race for large-scale AI compute.

Palantir Raises Outlook on AI Boom

Palantir beat quarterly estimates with $1.18 billion in revenue and 21 cents EPS, lifting guidance as AI adoption surges, with government sales up 52% and shares soaring 170% in 2025 amid booming enterprise demand.

AI CREATIVITY

🎬 How To Create Cinematic AI Films with Higgsfield Popcorn

Popcorn by Higgsfield quickly transforms your ideas into motion with AI storyboarding, scene consistency, and professional camera flow, offering studio-quality storytelling for filmmakers, brand designers, and solo creators.

Highlights:

• Keep characters, lighting, and tone consistent across every scene

• Choose Auto Mode for instant storyboards or Manual Mode for full control

• Upload up to 4 reference images for face, outfit, background, and prop continuity

• Integrates Sora 2, Nano-Banana, and DeepMind-level render realism

• Output your shorts in 16:9 cinematic or 9:16 vertical formats for social media

Popcorn transforms static prompts into connected visual sequences - all from a single image and sentence.

👉 Read More about Higgsfield Popcorn

AI HEALTH

🩺 AI Steps Up for Kids: Early TB Detection in Clinics

This week’s AIHealthTech Insider spotlights how AI is transforming care for the most vulnerable — from detecting pediatric tuberculosis in low-resource clinics to simulating brain disorders with Stanford’s generative models and OpenAI’s $25B global health pledge.

👉 Read the full issue of AIHealthTech Insider — where AI meets medicine’s next frontier.

WEEKEND EDITION

🚀 AI Agents That Build Themselves

In this Sunday edition, AI takes automation to new heights — from Google’s Vibe Coding that turns prompts into working apps to USF’s free AI microcourse training the next generation of builders.

Plus: income ideas, global AI events, and top career picks for ambitious creators.

👉 Read AI Entrepreneurs: Sunday Special – Issue #20 to stay future-ready.