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AI spending spree hits $600b as Oracle fires 21,000 employees to fund boom (www.jpost.com)
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Oracle laid off ~13% of its staff to fund a $300B computing deal with OpenAI. Now, a credit downgrade and $7B in required power grid guarantees put the massive project in jeopardy.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 days ago

The bankrupcy of Oracle when it blows up will be the silver lining of this bubble.

And Meta and Microsoft getting seriously screwed.