Oracle spooks markets with AI binge
Heavy debts rattle investors already twitchy about runaway AI spending
Oracle has taken a wallop as tech stocks and bonds tank, landing far harder than its Big Tech pals thanks to its colossal borrowing spree to muscle into the AI circus, which has rattled the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street something fierce.
Amazon and Microsoft backs chip limits as Nvidia gets squeezed
Fancy first dibs on AI silicon
Brown box shifter Amazon is standing next to the software King of the World, Microsoft, in cheering new US laws that would clip Nvidia’s exports to China.
Anthropic splashes out on colossal AI kit build
Claude maker throws silly money at US data centres
Anthropic has decided that the only way to keep its AI toys from coughing is to pour $50 billion into new infrastructure across the US.
TSMC squeezes chip supply as AI giants fight for N3 capacity
Fidelity’s Huang begs for wafers as fabs hit their limits
TSMC’s latest sports day turned into something of a customer summit when Fidelity boss Huang Renxun publicly pleaded for more chip supply, declaring that “without TSMC, there would be no Fidelity.”
Microsoft’s new AI crusade aims to ditch OpenAI leash
Suleyman says it’s time for Redmond to build superintelligence
Software king of the world, Microsoft, has decided it no longer wants to be shackled to OpenAI and is setting off on its own grand plan for superintelligence.
Amazon rides cloud and AI boom
Cloudy profits surge past expectations
Jeff Bezo's Amazon’s latest results show the company continues to turn artificial intelligence and cloud computing into serious profits.
Microsoft still not kissing Trump's ring
Nadella snubs tech bros contract grovelling
While the rest of the US tech industry has tripped over itself trying to please President Donald Trump, Microsoft has refused to play along and Computerworld thinks that is soon going to come with a hefty price tag.
Anthropic nabs a million Google Cloud chips for AI
Start-up inks deal worth tens of billions to secure computing power
Anthropic has struck a deal to grab hold of one million Google Cloud chips to train and run its artificial intelligence models, tightening its bond with one of its biggest investors.
Big‑tech rushes to back Trump’s White House ballroom
Big tech lines up behind grand White House makeover.
The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is listed among several major tech companies donating to fund President Donald Trump’s 90,000‑square‑foot White House ballroom.
Amazon broke the US internet
Routine update tiggered AWS meltdown
The world’s biggest online retailer managed to knock out a sizeable chunk of the internet this week after a routine software tweak went sideways.