Oracle raises restructuring costs as AI data center spending strains cash
Briefs Finance reports that Oracle increased its planned 2026 restructuring costs to about $2.8 billion as it invests heavily in AI data centers.
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Briefs Finance reports that Oracle increased its planned 2026 restructuring costs to about $2.8 billion as it invests heavily in AI data centers.
Mega Media News reports that Sadguru Sri Madhusudan Sai announced an AI and computer science higher education centre in Madiyala, with operations planned for November and student admissions expected to begin in June 2027.
Fortune reports that a new bipartisan Senate proposal could give federal agencies authority to test, regulate and potentially block the release of high-risk AI models after recent warnings from former and current Anthropic employees. The bill’s text is not public, and its status and final provisions remain unconfirmed.
Axios reports that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company will not go public in 2026 because it has substantial AI safety work to complete.
WIRED examines how recent AI claims in mathematics are accelerating research while raising unresolved questions about verification, credit, and the future role of human mathematicians.
dev.ua reports that Google has hired Mechanize co-founder Tamay Besiroglu and more than a dozen employees, while the final financial terms of the reported deal remain undisclosed.
Anthropic says threat actors used Claude in disrupted cyber, espionage, fraud, surveillance, weapons and biological-misuse operations between December 2025 and August 2026.
Pulse 2.0 reports that Enigmata has raised $6.5 million in seed funding to commercialize Cipher, a platform designed to let AI systems process encrypted data.
PayU says its new Fraud Liability Protect product uses AI-based risk assessment and adaptive authentication to protect eligible Indian merchants from some cross-border card fraud chargebacks.
Xinhua reports that researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed MatBrain, a two-model AI agent that combines materials reasoning with tool execution for research tasks.
The Arizona Daily Sun reports that a Flagstaff man accused of possessing AI-generated sexual images of minors is challenging Arizona’s law criminalizing such material.
CNBC reports that AI coaching tools are being used to help managers practice difficult employee conversations, while raising privacy, legal and oversight concerns.
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