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Oracle has banned AI-generated code from OpenJDK contributions, citing safety and IP risks, despite its own heavy use of AI internally and a $70 billion datacenter investment.
Oracle is halving its Always Free ARM compute limits, cutting Ampere A1 allowance from 4 OCPUs/24 GB to 2 OCPUs/12 GB, with automatic termination of excess instances starting August 18, 2026. The article explains the change and steps users should take to shrink or consolidate before the deadline.
OpenJDK has announced an interim policy banning contributions that include content generated by large language models or similar AI tools, citing risks to reviewer burden, safety, and intellectual property; contributors may still use such tools privately for comprehension and debugging.
Oracle announces a new era for MySQL, moving previously commercial features into the Community Edition and introducing a governance model to rebuild community trust, with the release of MySQL 9.7.0 LTS.
Oracle laid off 21,000 employees (13% of its workforce) to fund massive AI infrastructure spending, including a $300 billion contract with OpenAI, while facing regulatory hurdles and a credit downgrade that threatens a planned data center in Wisconsin.
Oracle could face a $7 billion collateral payment requirement for its planned data center in Wisconsin, a significant financial obligation that may affect the project's viability.
Oracle introduces Agent Memory, a database-native memory substrate for long-horizon AI agents, achieving 93.8% accuracy with 10.7x fewer tokens compared to flat-history baselines.
S&P Global downgraded Oracle's credit rating to BBB- due to massive AI data center investments and heavy dependence on OpenAI, posing significant financial risk.
This article discusses growing concerns from banks and hyperscalers about a potential AI bubble, citing a Bank for International Settlements report warning of economic risk and Oracle's significant stock decline. It features a podcast episode analyzing the situation.
Total lease commitments for data centers by US tech companies have reached $850 billion, surging 204% year-over-year, with Meta and Oracle contributing the most, reflecting accelerated investment in AI infrastructure.
The article describes an expired patent for a new in-memory sort algorithm that features common prefix skipping, adaptivity, and key substring caching, which was implemented in Oracle 10gR2 and achieved significant performance improvements.
Orasort, Oracle's patented column-sorting algorithm that achieves 5x faster sorting, entered the public domain after its patent expired in 2024, enabling cloud companies and open-source databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL to integrate it.
Oracle has laid off 21,000 employees amid a shift towards AI and cloud services, financing its data center expansion through significant debt despite investor concerns.
Oracle cut about 21,000 jobs globally in the last year, representing 13% of its workforce, as the tech giant reshapes its business around artificial intelligence and incurs $1.8bn in restructuring costs.
Big Tech companies are increasingly borrowing through bond sales to fund AI infrastructure, a shift from their traditional cash-rich funding model, as the Fed's rate policy makes debt more expensive.
A critical PeopleSoft zero-day vulnerability is being actively exploited by the ShinyHunters group, compromising hundreds of organizations and stealing gigabytes of data, including 48GB from a single victim.
Oracle's AI Database now includes vector store functionality for embeddings-based image search, showcasing innovative features that make it a unified data storage solution.
Oracle shares fell 11% after the company announced an additional $20 billion capital raise and reported negative free cash flow of $23.7 billion for fiscal 2026, as investors worry about the high cost of its AI buildout. Despite beating Q4 estimates, the stock is down for the year.
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison warns that AI-powered surveillance will lead citizens to behave better due to constant recording and reporting, echoing Orwellian concerns about privacy erosion.
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