Role split between two deputies

Safra Catz is stepping down as chief executive of Oracle after more than a decade, with the US software giant splitting the job between two deputies just as it rides the AI cloud boom.

Chipmaker plans to bank roll a glut of AI data centres

Nvidia has decided to fling up to $100 billion at OpenAI in what is being dressed up as a grand AI infrastructure partnership.

Orders sale then demands billions for letting it happen

The Trump administration forced TikTok to change hands in the US and wants a fat fee from the investors who are stepping in to buy it.

Ellison bets the farm on AI 

Oracle  stunned the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street with a forecast that makes it look more like Nvidia than the dull database flogger it has been for decades.

AI is cool for Catz

Oracle has stopped sulking about being late to cloud and is banging on about how it has become a must-have for the AI set.

Accenture and Oracle binned so Salesforce, Palantir and Workday can have a go

The US Department of Defence is chucking out two human resources software projects worth more than $800 million even though they were nearly finished because someone wanted to give their favourite contractors a turn.

Trump-backed $500 billion AI moonshot already stalling

The $500 billion Stargate project, trumpeted at the White House as America’s grand AI leap forward, is looking more like a tire fire than the start of a golden age.

Sparks open-source exodus

Oracle's relentless licensing changes are pushing organisations into the open-saucy arms of openjdk, according to a new survey.

Ellison cuddles up to federal wallets

Oracle is slashing prices for its software and cloud services to please the Trump administration, offering what it calls a “substantial” discount on its cloudy wares and 75 per cent off on licence-based database and analytics products.

SSO breach pretty obvious

Oracle is in full-blown damage control mode after hacker “rose87168” claimed to breach its Oracle Cloud login servers.