CIO Dive

JULY 1, 2025

Oracle’s quarterly CapEx more than doubled year over year to $21.2 When we all of a sudden have higher CapEx, it means we are filling out data centers and we are buying components to build our computers,” Oracle CEO Safra Catz said during a June earnings call. billion during the three months ending May 31.

Newsletter

Fast Company Tech

JUNE 30, 2025

stocks came back so quickly from their springtime swoon has been the hope that Trump will reach deals with other countries to lower his stiffly proposed tariffs. On Wall Street, Oracle’s 4.8% One of the main reasons U.S. Otherwise, the fear is that trade wars could stifle the economy and send inflation higher.

Time

Fast Company Tech

JULY 25, 2025

Carr has said the agency’s review of the proposed merger was not connected to the lawsuit. Skydance CEO David Ellison, son of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, is poised to become chair and chief executive of the new Paramount. First Amendment lawyers said the suit was without merit.

Broadcast

Wired

JULY 23, 2025

A day after his inauguration, the president announced a joint venture between Softbank, Oracle, and OpenAI called Stargate that promised to build at least $100 billion in data center capacity in the US. Trump has also taken steps to help build out US AI capacity domestically and abroad.

Action

CIO Dive

JULY 22, 2025

Deep Dive Opinion Library Events Press Releases Topics Sign up Search Sign up Search IT Strategy Cloud Security Big Data AI Software Leadership An article from Dive Brief OpenAI, Oracle launch Stargate data center capacity expansion The 4.5 Dive Brief: OpenAI and Oracle plan to develop 4.5 according to a Tuesday announcement.

Oracle

CIO Dive

JULY 2, 2025

Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle, SAP and Workday are among tech giants that began launching agents last year, promising the next stage of enterprise automation. Big Four accounting firms such as KPMG and Deloitte have quickly jumped on the band wagon as well, offering their own agentic AI solutions for customers.

Gartner

TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

It’s not an inexpensive transaction, but thanks to a “go-shop” provision that gives VMware 40 days to “solicit, receive, evaluate and potentially enter negotiations with parties that offer alternative proposals,” there’s market speculation that another bidder could enter the fray.

Oracle

InfoWorld

JANUARY 29, 2024

In an effort to streamline code, Java would be enhanced with derived record creation, via a proposal that would provide a means to create record instances from existing records through a block of transformation code. The proposal notes that because records are immutable values, developers frequently build new records to reflect new data.

Proposal

The AI Alignment Forum

JULY 20, 2025

Parts are higher context (comparisons with hardened AIXI and joint AIXI ) but you don't actually need much math to follow - in particular this post pretty much uses reflective oracles as a black box, and everything else has short inferential distance assuming basic familiarity with AIXI and reinforcement learning.

Oracle

TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

What it does: Oracle for Web 2.0 The pitch: Clique is a privacy-preserving identity oracle for Web 2.0 What it does: Decentralized lending platform without oracles. Ajna aims to let people lend digital assets immediately without oracles, governance or gatekeepers in a permissionless market. Company name: Clique.

Oracle

The Verge

OCTOBER 9, 2020

On The Vergecast , co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn talk to The Verge ’s Russell Brandom and Adi Robertson about what the congressional report lays out as antitrust violations for each company and how the proposed solutions to these violations can reshape our digital world. The Supreme Court is taking on Google and Oracle one last time.

Report

TechNode

JANUARY 28, 2024

27, US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo stated that the US government is proposing to require American cloud service companies to conduct self-assessments to determine whether foreign entities are accessing US data centers for training artificial intelligence models.

Train

NTEN

JUNE 17, 2011

Nonprofits can leverage this enormous potential for the purposes of cross-member engagement, which includes learning from other members, supporting each other through collaboration and proposing ideas—all under the oversight of the organization. To establish such a community, and incur organizational benefits, there must be control and order.

Influence

The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 19, 2025

An oracle probe trained on an unbiased training dataset, where gender is not correlated with profession, achieves an accuracy of 93%. Our oracle probe (i.e., For this specific seed, the de-biased probe achieved higher accuracy compared to the oracle probe.) Marks et al. on the unbiased dataset.

Oracle

TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

The chat is enriched with interactive proposal cards to improve the experience and allow faster decision making on part of our customers,” Hermann said. “Our users interact with Saiga via an app as the primary interface, where they have a chat-like interface for each task. ” A path to success?

Germany

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The second discussion was with a small charity who have engaged an IT support company to help them and wanted someone to "sanity check" what was being proposed to them. For instance, the cost of a finance or HR function may not get included, yet by their very existence, IT employees add some burden to these functions.

Technology

Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Lensch, Varun Jampani Chefs’ Random Tables: Non-Trigonometric Random Features Valerii Likhosherstov, Krzysztof Marcin Choromanski , Avinava Dubey , Frederick Liu , Tamas Sarlos , Adrian Weller Lottery Tickets on a Data Diet: Finding Initializations with Sparse Trainable Networks Mansheej Paul, Brett W Larsen, Surya Ganguli, Jonathan Frankle, Gintare (..)

Google

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

We are confident our proposal would have been good for TikTok’s users, while protecting national security interests. Microsoft’s failed bid leaves the door open for Oracle as a potential buyer. Any potential deal with Oracle isn’t without complications, though.

Oracle

Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

TikTok said that it isn't going anywhere after President Trump approved Oracle's proposed deal. The app's ban from U.S. app stores has been delayed by a week.

Oracle

Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

President Donald Trump approved Oracle's purchase of the U.S. assets of TikTok, as the new company that will be formed pledged $5 billion to an education fund.

Oracle

Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

President Donald Trump reportedly spoke to Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison about a possible payment to the U.S. government in the proposed deal to acquire TikTok.

Proposal

The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

“In the nearly two months since the President gave his preliminary approval to our proposal to satisfy those concerns, we have offered detailed solutions to finalize that agreement – but have received no substantive feedback on our extensive data privacy and security framework.”.

United States

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The Defense Department said it had “determined that Microsoft’s proposal continues to represent the best value to the Government,” adding that “contract performance will not begin immediately.” IBM and Oracle also bid on the contract but were eliminated from the process in April 2018.

Oracle

TechNode

JANUARY 16, 2025

Why it matters: The proposed delay to the ban reflects the US’s conflicted stance on TikTok. It also requires TikTok’s cloud service provider, Oracle, to cease hosting its US user data. Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey proposed a delay to the TikTok ban deadline less than a week before it was set to take effect.

Proposal

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

It’s difficult to remember now, but in August 2020 there was a deeply surreal episode wherein Microsoft proposed acquiring some portion of TikTok in a complicated deal as the Trump administration was threatening to come down hard on the platform. He says he hasn’t followed up on what’s going on with TikTok and Oracle. Nadella says.

Oracle

The Verge

MARCH 11, 2022

TikTok is reportedly close to finalizing a deal with Oracle that would see the short-form video platform storing its US users’ data without providing access to Chinese parent company ByteDance. Oracle was to become a “trusted technology partner” for TikTok in the US. Tiktok | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

Oracle

The Verge

DECEMBER 18, 2020

I think it will probably end 2021 owned by the Oracle-Walmart consortium, but perhaps not. Some other things that didn’t pop in my replies but seem likely to me: Multiple ongoing lawsuits and proposed regulations — related to antitrust in the United States, and data privacy and competition in the European Union — will slow down Big Tech.

Internet

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Facebook’s proposed solution to this is the Oversight Board , an independent group that will serve as a kind of Supreme Court for content moderation. The move gives ByteDance more time to get approval from authorities in the US and China for a pending deal with Oracle and Walmart.

Facebook

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The US Department of Justice submitted a proposal to weaken Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The proposal would remove immunity for tech platforms’ hosting material related to terrorism, child sex abuse, or cyber-stalking. Today, Oracle has little experience in building and maintaining software for consumers.

Social Network

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Oracle will also own a minority stake that will be less than 20% of the new global TikTok, two of the people said. In the meantime, for reasons we covered here Monday , Trump is facing increasing pushback from Republican members on the deal as it is currently proposed. in the next 24-36 hours, sources told CNBC’s David Faber.

Fun

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

A group of Republican senators led by Marco Rubio is calling on Trump to reject Oracle’s proposed deal with TikTok if the app doesn’t sever ties with ByteDance. “We Oracle’s deal with TikTok could be worth more than $1 billion in annual revenue for Oracle’s cloud business in the coming years. Adi Robertson / The Verge ).

Facebook

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Josh Hawley is publicly calling on the Treasury Department to reject Oracle’s proposed partnership with TikTok , saying the arrangement is unacceptable on national security grounds. In an open letter to Mnuchin , Hawley calls on the secretary to take a more skeptical look at the proposal. Photo by Leigh Vogel for The Verge.

Oracle

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

as part of that country’s debate over proposed online-harm legislation, would “require platform companies to ensure that their algorithms do not skew toward extreme and unreliable material to boost user engagement.” Oracle’s closeness with the Trump administration could prove helpful in its bid to buy TikTok.

New York

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

First publicly confirmed on August 2nd, the proposed TikTok acquisition comes in response to months of escalating concerns about Chinese ownership of an app used by millions of Americans.

China

The AI Alignment Forum

MAY 5, 2025

Bengio's Scientist AI: Develop safety guardrails that obtain more reliable estimates of the probability of catastrophic risk with increasing inference time: [2] [O]ur proposed method has the advantage that, with more and more compute, it converges to the correct prediction. 2018, Table 1 ).

Lesson

The AI Alignment Forum

MAY 7, 2025

We propose using safety case sketches as an organising frame for clarifying the relationships between the claims, arguments and evidence entailed by alignment proposals. More broadly, we can use honest systems to prevent all sorts of harm by asking them whether a proposed course of action might cause harm. Human input.

Research

The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 25, 2025

These settings can be interesting to study even if the blue team has access to a basically perfect but expensive oracle of whether the AI's actions are problematic. See also this appendix for some discussion and I can potentially send an unpublished project proposal on request (DM me).

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