How Will A **$50B** Bet Reshape OpenAI? 🤖💸📈

TL;DR

• Amazon eyes up to $50B OpenAI stake
• Perplexity inks $750M Azure cloud commitment
• Adobe Acrobat adds AI podcasts, presentations
• Early‑stage AI raises top $77M seed today

HEADLINES

Amazon weighs $50B OpenAI investment today 💰🔗

Perplexity secures $750M Azure cloud deal ☁️🔗

Adobe turns Acrobat into AI podcast studio 🎙️🔗

Microsoft & Meta punished, rewarded on AI payoff doubts 📉🔗

Infosys & Tennis Australia debut AO 2026 “AI‑first” fan experiences 🎾🔗

FROM THE BIG PLAYERS

Apple warns AI‑driven memory costs squeezing margins 📱🔗

Apple CEO Tim Cook dodges analyst questions on AI monetisation 🧩🔗

Apple acquires audio startup Q.ai for AI audio 🎧🔗

Meta leans on AI smart glasses for growth 🕶️🔗

RAISES

Factify raised $73M seed to reinvent intelligent documents 📄🔗

Datalinx AI raised $4.2M seed for AI‑ready marketing data 🧪🔗

Decagon confirmed prior $250M Series D powering SF expansion 🏙️🔗

NEW LAUNCHES

Adobe launched Acrobat Studio AI podcasts and decks 🚀🔗

Purple unveiled Engage CRM for AI‑driven venue marketing 📬🔗

Infosys rolled out AO 2026 AI fan insights 🎾🔗

Mozn spotlighted FOCAL AI platform fighting financial crime 🛡️🔗

TRY THESE TOOLS

Datalinx AI automates messy‑to‑AI‑ready marketing data 🧰🔗

Purple Engage turns guest WiFi into automated CRM 📡🔗

Amira Learning offers AI reading coach for classrooms 📚🔗

Mozn FOCAL detects fraud and AML risk with AI 🏦🔗

METRICS

OpenAI targets up to $100B mega‑round valuation 📊🔗

Perplexity commits $750M to Microsoft Azure capacity 📈🔗

Microsoft lost US$350B market cap on AI worries 📉🔗

Meta boosted revenue 24% on AI‑driven ad targeting 📈🔗

India Inc pegs AI upside at $550B by 2035 🇮🇳🔗

BENCHMARKS

India Economic Survey frames AI as $550B growth lever 📘🔗

Egypt scores 57.5 in Government AI Readiness Index 🌍🔗

FTI Consulting warns US firms AI compliance window shrinking fast 📑🔗

Coveo posts 12% revenue growth from AI search SaaS 🔎🔗

Australian Open pilots AI insights for visually impaired fans 🎾🔗

INFRA & COSTS

Apple flags surging DRAM prices from AI demand 💾🔗

Microsoft plans $80B AI data‑center capex for FY25 🏗️🔗

Nvidia / China platforms see approval for 400k+ H200 AI chips 🖥️🔗

Micron commits US$24B NAND fab focused on AI memory 💽🔗

India Inc presses government for dedicated AI public infra ⚙️🔗

VALUATIONS

Decagon tripled to $4.5B valuation post‑Series D 🏷️🔗

Perplexity operates around $20B private valuation benchmark 💼🔗

OpenAI reportedly chasing $830B–$1T valuation range 🚀🔗

Microsoft still at US$3.2T despite AI selloff 🏦🔗

Meta trades around US$1.86T, fueled by AI ads 📊🔗

POLICY

FTI Consulting outlines tightening US AI enforcement trajectory ⚖️🔗

NatLawReview flags BaFin’s new AI risk governance expectations 📜🔗

UK CMA proposes opt‑out from Google AI Overviews 🛑🔗

US lawmakers scrutinise Nvidia’s AI support for DeepSeek 🏛️🔗

Laos government anchors AI strategy on UNESCO ethics framework 🧭🔗

SOVEREIGN

Singapore commits S$1B+ to public AI R&D 🇸🇬🔗

Victoria state launches AI Future plan to boost jobs 🦘🔗

Laos develops National AI Strategy with UNESCO backing 🇱🇦🔗

Jordan Ministry of Education funds national literacy push using Amira AI 🇯🇴🔗

India government pilots AI‑enabled state university with Google Cloud 🇮🇳🔗

SECTORS

Healthcare deployed AI to boost breast‑cancer detection 🩺🔗

Sports deployed AI match insights for fans 🎾🔗

Education deployed AI reading tutors in Jordanian schools 📚🔗

Financial crime deployed FOCAL AI for AML monitoring 💳🔗

Hospitality & retail deployed Engage to automate venue marketing 🍽️🔗

COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Startup Grind Frisco hosted Essential AI Skills workshop for founders 🤝🔗

Howard University ran “AI Tinkery” session demystifying generative AI 🎓🔗

Latent Space surpassed 103k subscribers as AI engineer hub 🌐🔗