Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle have issued about $220 billion of bonds in 2026 through Aug. 10, according to BNP Paribas data cited by Reuters, as they finance an artificial-intelligence…
In 2026, 50 tech companies have cut a combined 170,777 jobs, averaging 13.7% of workforce per company, with AI adoption cited as the primary driver. Oracle conducted a 30,000-person restructuring, and…
DeepSQL, an open-source database agent for Postgres and MySQL, released v1.2.0 with schema-scoped access policies that enforce permissions in the planner path, not just via prompts, to prevent LLMs fr…
TikTok has reached a $400 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, ending a 2024 lawsuit alleging the company violated federal children’s privacy laws. The DOJ said Friday that TikTok w…
Nvidia announced Friday that it has become a minority investor in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a company founded in 2024 that develops land and power for data centers, as part of its strategy to ensure …
Michael Burry warned Friday that the AI data center boom mirrors the structural excesses preceding the 2008 financial crisis, citing circular financing, off-balance-sheet vehicles, and captive insurer…
The AI infrastructure boom is increasingly being financed through debt rather than operating cash flows, according to analysts at JPMorgan, the Bank for International Settlements, and FactSet. JPMorga…
A growing number of Americans oppose data centers due to environmental, cost, and job concerns, but some pro-AI figures, including venture capitalist Garry Tan, claim China is orchestrating a psyop to…
MyDataWork founder Gib Bassett made the analytics context platform available through AWS Marketplace on August 21st, offering a 20-user team license for $7,500 per 12-month contract, which includes a …
An engineer at an insurance company demonstrated that an AI agent with SQL and database access can develop in Oracle Designer 10g, a CASE tool whose support ended in 2013. The agent designed entities,…
Salesforce Inc. (NYSE: CRM) is positioned for a potential stock pop on August 26, 2026, when it reports fiscal Q2 2027 earnings, with Agentforce annual recurring revenue surpassing $1 billion and comb…
The AI build-out faces a 'reset wall' of scheduled payment shocks hidden inside take-or-pay compute contracts, according to an analysis comparing the current AI boom to the 2008 subprime crisis. More …
Morgan Stanley warned in an Aug. 17 research report that community resistance to data centers has become a material development risk, stating 'Capital alone no longer clears a site' and arguing politi…
Oracle has released a sample TypeScript application demonstrating a transparent RAG pipeline using Oracle AI Database 26ai, LangChain.js, and OCI Generative AI, with code available on GitHub. The app …
Forrester warns that business transformation, software development, and technology implementation are among the tech job categories most likely to be disrupted by AI, with only infrastructure, data an…
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that artificial intelligence could be 'bigger than the internet, bigger than anything anyone's seen,' as he called for regulation that does not stifle the industr…
A developer's analysis of five common agent engineering problems reveals that persistent tool_choice settings cause infinite loops, OpenAI's Assistants API will be removed on August 26, 2026, and Auto…
Nebius Group raised approximately $4.3 billion through a convertible bond offering that closed on March 20, upsizing from an initial $3.75 billion target, to fund AI data center expansion, cloud platf…
Tech layoffs in 2026 have surpassed 205,832, exceeding the 2025 total of 122,606 with four months remaining, according to Layoffs.fyi. By spring 2026, 40% of layoff announcements cited AI automation a…
A July 2026 survey by ResumeTemplates of 1,000 managers at US companies with more than 500 employees found that 59% use AI in layoff decisions, and 43% of those managers allowed AI to finalize a layof…