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.

However, not many are buying it

Oracle is doing its best impression of a brick wall after a hacker going by “rose87168” claimed to have waltzed through their cloud infrastructure and walked off with six million records.

Suddenly has an open relationship with Nvidia   

Oracle has announced it's buying 30,000 of AMD’s new Instinct MI355X AI accelerators.

Attempting to stall the case

Database licence seller Oracle has filed a motion with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to partially dismiss a legal challenge to its JavaScript trademark.

Getting rather expensive

West Sussex County Council is selling $31 million of capital assets to fund an Oracle-based transformation project, which has caused a cost overrun of biblical proportions.

Bytedance still involved 

A new plan which would keep TikTok available in the US, but under the control of a group of companies including Oracle and Microsoft is being negotiated by the White House.

Vested interest

Elon [Roman salute] Musk appears to be using his position as Donald Trump’s budget advisor to sabotage his rival’s mega AI plans, Stargate.