Related Digital Secures Financing for $16 Billion Oracle Data Center in Michigan

April 24 (Reuters) - ⁠Data ⁠center developer ⁠Related Digital said on ​Friday it has ‌secured financing for ‌a $16 billion ...

Best of frenemies: Oracle’s and AWS’ clouds unite with dedicated, private connectivity

Oracle Corp. and Amazon Web Services Inc. seem to be putting their longstanding rivalry aside in favor of a more pragmatic ...
Opinion
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Redpanda Connect Eliminates Silos with Salesforce Connectors, Streaming CDC for Oracle and DynamoDB

Redpanda, creator of the Redpanda Agentic Data Plane (ADP) for enterprise AI, announced the general availability of four new components in Redpanda Connect: an Amazon DynamoDB change data capture (CDC ...
CNN

North Korea says its latest tests included missiles armed with cluster-bomb warheads

North Korea on Thursday said its testing spree this week involved various new weapons systems, including ballistic missiles armed with cluster-bomb warheads, as it pushes to expand nuclear-capable ...
GeekWire

Amazon revamps S3 cloud storage for the AI era, removing a key barrier for apps and agents

The approach: S3 Files uses a “stage and commit” model, borrowing the concept from version control systems like Git: changes accumulate on the file system side and are pushed back to S3 as whole ...
VentureBeat

Amazon S3 Files gives AI agents a native file system workspace, ending the object-file split that breaks multi-agent pipelines

AI agents run on file systems using standard tools to navigate directories and read file paths. The challenge, however, is that there is a lot of enterprise data in object storage systems, notably ...
New York Post

Outrage as Oracle files thousands of foreign-worker requests amid layoff bloodbath

As thousands of Oracle employees awoke on Tuesday to an email informing them they were being laid off, the workers likely didn’t know the tech company had been busy trying to hire foreign staff.
Indiatimes

Oracle layoffs: Employees receive email from 'Oracle Leadership' at 6AM, saying: "We have made the decision to eliminate your role as…"

Oracle has begun laying off employees across its global offices, with workers in US, India, and other regions reporting termination emails landing in their inboxes as early as 6AM EST on Tuesday. The ...
Forbes

Oracle Fires Thousands Of Employees As AI Spending Ramps Up—Shares Rise 2%

Oracle on Tuesday conducted a round of layoffs affecting thousands of employees, citing “current business needs,” according to multiple reports, resulting in a rise in the software maker’s stock as it ...
WSMV

Metro Council to hold special joint committee hearing to address Oracle payroll system failure

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Metro Council will hold a hearing next week to address the payroll system failures that have left Metro employees and retirees without pay for months. The Budget and Finance ...
Diginomica

Oracle's agentic Fusion play - from system of record to system of outcomes

Oracle is shifting Fusion from a system of record to a system of outcomes with 22 new agentic applications - a substantial step beyond copilots that will prompt serious questions about what's now ...