Amazon Lands 38B OpenAI Partnership

Welcome to another edition of AI PlanetX.

Amazon secures $38B OpenAI deal; Google’s Gemma AI pulled over false claims; Apple revamps Siri with Gemini AI in 2026.

• Hottest AI News

• Top AI & SaaS Tools

• AI Tutorial: Automate Email Drafting with AI

• Top AI & Tech News

• AI Art Spotlight

• Prompt of the Day: Crush Your Goals in 60 Days

• AI Video Tutorial

• Course of the Day: Prompt Engineering Tech with DeepSeek-R1

Hottest AI News

OpenAI

Amazon Secures $38B OpenAI Partnership as AI Giant Diversifies Beyond Microsoft

OpenAI has signed a $38 billion, seven-year cloud deal with Amazon — its first major move since gaining more autonomy. The partnership underscores the AI industry’s soaring demand for computing power as firms race toward human-level intelligence.

Details:

• The deal gives OpenAI hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs, including GB200 and GB300 chips. Capacity will come online by late 2026, with room to expand through 2027, backing Sam Altman’s $1.4 trillion plan to build 30 gigawatts of compute

• The agreement is a major win for Amazon, easing worries it was lagging Microsoft and Google in AI. Amazon shares hit record highs, adding nearly $140 billion in market value, while Microsoft briefly dipped. AWS already hosts OpenAI models

• It also signals OpenAI’s shift from Microsoft, its key partner since 2019. Last week’s restructuring ended Microsoft’s first right of refusal for compute services. OpenAI has added Google Cloud and reportedly a $300 billion Oracle deal, while eyeing an IPO that could value it at $1 trillion

The OpenAI–AWS partnership marks a pivotal era in AI infrastructure, where scale and diversification are key to building systems that could transform how we live and work.

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DeepMind

Senator Blackburn Forces Google to Pull Gemma AI Over False Defamation Claims

Google has removed its Gemma AI model from AI Studio after Senator Marsha Blackburn accused it of generating completely fabricated sexual misconduct allegations against her.

Details:

• When asked about Blackburn, Gemma falsely claimed she was accused of pressuring a state trooper for prescription drugs and non-consensual acts during a 1987 campaign—none of which is true, including the year (actually 1998). The supposed supporting links led to error pages and unrelated articles

• This follows conservative activist Robby Starbuck's lawsuit claiming Google's AI models defamed him by generating false and highly inappropriate criminal accusations. During a Senate hearing, Google's VP characterized these as "hallucinations", but Blackburn argues they're defamation, not harmless errors

• Blackburn's letter also points to a pattern of bias against conservatives in Google's AI systems, echoing complaints from Trump supporters about "AI censorship" and liberal bias—concerns that led to Trump's executive order banning "woke AI" earlier this year

Google responded that Gemma was never intended as a consumer tool for factual questions and is removing it from AI Studio while keeping it available via API for developers.

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AI Tutorial

How to Automate Email Drafting with xAI’s Grok-4 and n8n

Tired of writing repetitive emails every day? In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to automate the process completely by building an AI agent that drafts emails using xAI’s Grok-4 inside n8n

1. Create Workflow in n8n

   Start by opening your n8n dashboard and creating a workflow.

   This will serve as the base where the nodes—trigger, AI model, and integrations—will connect and interact.

2. Add Chat Message Trigger

   Add the Chat Message Trigger node as your workflow’s entry point.

   Your workflow starts automatically whenever you send a fresh chat message to your AI agent.

3. Connect AI Agent Node

   Next, add an AI Agent node and connect it to the Chat Message Trigger.

   This will let your workflow process user prompts and generate intelligent responses through Grok-4.

4. Configure Grok-4 Model

   In the AI Agent node:

   • Select the model: xAI Grok-4-0709

   • Enter your API credentials securely in the credentials section

   • Adjust settings like temperature and max tokens depending on how creative or concise you want your drafts to be

5. Add Simple Memory Node

   Attach a Simple Memory node to your workflow.

   Your AI agent can remember short-term context—useful for when multiple related messages are exchanged (e.g., "Add a closing line to the previous draft").

6. Integrate Gmail to Create Drafts

   Add a Gmail node and set its operation to “Create Draft.”

   Connect it after the Simple Memory node so the generated email text automatically becomes a draft in your Gmail account.

   Make sure to authenticate your Gmail integration via OAuth.

7. Define System and User Prompts

   Set up system and user instructions to guide the AI’s tone and structure. For example:

   System message: “You are an assistant that writes concise, polite business emails.”

   User prompt example: “Write an email to emma @ startuphub(.)io to request a demo schedule next week.”

   You can customize these based on your use case—customer support, outreach, or internal communication.

8. Test and Refine Workflow

   Run a quick test to ensure everything works smoothly. Try prompts such as:

   “Draft a thank-you email to alex @ company(.)com for attending our product webinar.”

   “Write a follow-up email asking if they had time to review our proposal.”

   Review the generated drafts in Gmail, tweak system instructions if needed, and save your workflow for future automation.

Note: If the workflow triggers too often, add filters or conditions so it runs when messages contain “draft” or come from specific users.

Top AI & Tech News

• Microsoft announced a $15.2 billion investment in the United Arab Emirates over the next four years

• Ilya Sutskever’s deposition revealed that after Sam Altman’s brief ouster in Nov 2023, OpenAI’s board discussed a possible merger with rival Anthropic

• Meta’s heavy AI spending on data centers, talent, and a fresh Superintelligence team has sharply raised costs without clear near-term revenue

• Apple will launch a revamped Siri around March 2026, powered by a custom Google Gemini model on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute

AI Art Spotlight

Create Your Own Photo Like This Using the Prompt Below:

Ultra-realistic 8K close-up cinematic portrait of a rugged man (face and hairstyle exactly the same as the uploaded photo, no changes) with wet skin glistening under dramatic lighting. The focus is on one intense blue eye, captured in sharp, high-definition detail. Moisture droplets glimmer under warm orange and golden highlights, while wet strands of dark hair fall naturally across his face. The skin and beard textures are rendered with extreme clarity and contrast, creating a powerful, high-drama atmosphere. The overall tone is hyper-detailed, photorealistic, cinematic, and emotionally charged, evoking the intensity of a movie still shot on a DSLR with cinematic depth of field.

Model: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana)

Prompt of the Day

Prompt to Lock Your Year and Crush Goals in 60 Days

This prompt turns a full year of stalled goals into a ruthless 60-day execution plan by acting as an elite performance coach: it diagnoses your deepest failure patterns, exposes the honest habits and stories that keep you stuck, and prescribes a step-by-step accountability framework built on first principles and militant discipline.

Top AI Video Tutorial

6 AI Skills 99% of People Don’t Know—but Should

AI Course of the Day

Prompt Engineering Techniques with DeepSeek-R1

This course shows you how to get the most out of DeepSeek‑R1’s reasoning capabilities for real work. You’ll learn practical prompt‑engineering techniques, how prompting for DeepSeek‑R1 differs from traditional LLMs, and how to use its structured reasoning to plan goals, refine tasks, and manage evolving requirements.