Oracle halved its Always Free Ampere A1 Compute allowance on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure from 4 OCPUs and 24 GB RAM to 2 OCPUs and 12 GB RAM, effective June 15, 2026, without public announcement or cu…
Oracle launched four new Fusion Agentic Applications for supply chain automation on June 29, 2026, including the Inventory Planning Command Center and supplier qualification tools. The AI-driven tools…
NVIDIA and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) announced the deployment of the production-ready NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint on OCI, enabling developers to deploy multi-agent AI systems using Terraform and Hel…
Oracle cut 21,000 jobs in fiscal 2026, reducing its workforce to 141,000, and explicitly blamed AI in its SEC filing, stating that the adoption and deployment of AI technologies resulted in workforce …
XAI's Grok AI models are now available on Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, expanding beyond Elon Musk's ecosystem. The move positions Grok alongside OpenAI's GPT-4o and Anthropic's Cla…
An engineer on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) built a scale-to-zero AI inference system on Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) using KEDA to eliminate costs from idle GPUs. The system scales GPU pods do…
A developer deployed a Llama 3 inference endpoint on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's OKE cluster using vLLM and NVIDIA A10 GPUs in about 20 minutes. The setup cost $1.52/hr on-demand or $0.46/hr preempt…
A developer recounts a $47,000 mistake from vendor lock-in after an 18-month contract with an unnamed API provider that now requires a costly migration. The developer's fractional CTO audit framework …
Oracle Cloud will halve its Always Free resources on June 15, reducing the free tier for compute, storage, and database services. The change affects all accounts, limiting free resources to half the p…
Nvidia's new GB300 NVL72 system achieves 61,400 concurrent AI agents per megawatt, a 20x improvement over the prior-generation H200. The Blackwell Ultra rack-scale system, validated using the AgentPer…
WEKA's NeuralMesh and Augmented Memory Grid software delivered 10x higher token throughput, 10x more concurrent users, and 7x more tokens per GPU on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure compared to DRAM-only c…
The global cloud infrastructure market reached approximately $395 billion in 2025, with AWS, Azure, and GCP controlling 63% of enterprise spending as of Q1 2026. AWS's market share narrowed from 30% t…
NVIDIA today announced the launch of Vera, its first CPU designed specifically for AI agents, now in full production and enabling 1.8x faster task completion than x86 CPUs. Global AI labs including An…
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang introduced the standalone Vera CPU at GTC San Jose in March as the company's next multibillion-dollar business, and the first units arrived at three leading AI labs…
A fractional CTO for AI startups should focus on business constraints and preserving flexibility rather than designing perfect technical architectures. The key decisions involve managing inference cos…
The article provides a step-by-step guide for replacing the default Ubuntu 20.04 operating system on an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Free Tier ARM64 instance with a Debian 10 cloud image. The pro…