Oracle shares jump as it targets $30B in free cash flow by 2029
Oracle shares jump as it targets $30B in free cash flow by 2029

Oracle said free cash flow will reach $30B in the year to May 2029, when analysts expected it to stay negative. It capped new fundraising at $20B through May 2030 and kept its $225B revenue target. Shares rose as much as 14%. Oracle shares jumped as mu…

Oracle will sell Google’s TPUs in its cloud and put ChatGPT in its apps
Oracle will sell Google’s TPUs in its cloud and put ChatGPT in its apps

Oracle will rent out Google’s tensor processing units (TPUs) in its cloud from 2027. That makes it the first hyperscale cloud outside Google to offer the chips. It is also putting OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Codex inside its business software. Oracle announce…

Oracle bundles AI video tools and streaming into one media platform
Oracle bundles AI video tools and streaming into one media platform

Oracle announced Media Fabric at AI World, a platform that combines its own AI video and image models, an AI production suite and a live-streaming network. It lets brands make many versions of one ad. Oracle says it will be available within 12 months. …

Oracle will offer Cerebras AI computers in its cloud from 2027
Oracle will offer Cerebras AI computers in its cloud from 2027

Oracle will offer cloud services running on Cerebras’ AI computers in its data centres from 2027, the companies said. Cerebras, which went public in May, is expected to triple revenue next year to almost $3B, but investors worry about its place in a ma…

Oracle pledges $1B over four years to partners that sell its AI tools
Oracle pledges $1B over four years to partners that sell its AI tools

Oracle announced a $1B, four-year commitment to its partner ecosystem at AI World in Las Vegas, covering training, test and demo environments, cloud migration funding and Marketplace sales. It also changed Marketplace rules. The pledge comes as Oracle …

AstraZeneca and Oracle team up on AI to find patients for drug trials
AstraZeneca and Oracle team up on AI to find patients for drug trials

AstraZeneca and Oracle will use AI and real patient health data to find people for drug trials faster, the two firms announced. The deal adds to a long list of AI health tie-ups between drugmakers and tech companies. The pair signed a non-binding term …

ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-off Prior to Arrests
ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-off Prior to Arrests

A teenager from Amman, Jordan suspected of leading the prolific data theft and extortion group ShinyHunters has been detained and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI to identify other members of the hacking gang. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the suspect, who uses the hacker handle “Rey,” was detained as ShinyHunters was in the process of extorting a business unit recently divested by the global aerospace company Boeing, which manufactures the fleet of planes used by the employer of Rey’s father — Royal Jordanian Airlines.

Tencent leases 100,000 AI chips from Oracle in a $7bn deal, FT reports
Tencent leases 100,000 AI chips from Oracle in a $7bn deal, FT reports

Tencent has signed a five-year lease to use about 100,000 advanced AI chips from Oracle. People familiar with the matter told the Financial Times about the deal. The chips, which are not available in China, sit in several Oracle data centres in South-E…

Dutch Police Arrest ‘Reformed’ Hacker in Shiny Hunters Investigation
Dutch Police Arrest ‘Reformed’ Hacker in Shiny Hunters Investigation

Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested a 23-year-old convicted cybercriminal on suspicion of aiding in data thefts and extortions by the prolific hacker group ShinyHunters. In the days immediately following the suspect’s arrest, remaining ShinyHunters members dramatically escalated their attacks, stealing highly sensitive data from the FBI and extorting the Russian ransomware group Cl0p.

Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center

The notice would allow Oracle to delay payments should the facility miss its 2028 target to come online.