Oracle Fired 30,000 People to Build Data Centers That Iran Already Bombed
Oracle fired 18 percent of its workforce via a 6 AM email to fund $156 billion in AI data centers, while the IRGC bombed Oracle's Dubai facility the same week.
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Oracle fired 18 percent of its workforce via a 6 AM email to fund $156 billion in AI data centers, while the IRGC bombed Oracle's Dubai facility the same week.
Commander Wiseman's Earth photos from Orion are the first taken by human hands beyond low Earth orbit since 1972 -- and the Moon flyby arrives Monday, the same day as Trump's Iran deadline.
The Trump administration filed its appeal of Judge Lin's injunction on the final day of the stay, signaling it will fight to preserve power to blacklist AI companies from contracts.
Gemma 4, in four sizes from 2B to 31B parameters, is the first Google model under a true open-source license -- and its reasoning benchmarks rival closed competitors at a fraction of the size.
Tech companies fired 963 people per day in Q1 2026, totaling 52,050 -- and AI was cited as the reason in one out of every five cuts.
Intel became the first of the 18 named companies to publicly acknowledge the IRGC threat, saying it is 'monitoring the situation' -- four days after the list was published.
A month after Iranian drones struck AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain, full recovery has not been declared and the facilities remain a live example of the IRGC's target list.