Oracle Cuts 21,000 Jobs
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The growing use of AI contributed to Oracle laying off 21,000 workers in a year, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday.
Oracle (NYSE:ORCL | ORCL Price Prediction) just reported its biggest quarter ever. Q4 FY2026 revenue hit $19.18B, cloud infrastructure ran +93% YoY, and remaining performance obligations exploded to $638 billion.
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Oracle denies report that security concerns killed potential $3 billion Microsoft cloud deal
Negotiations between Microsoft Corp. MSFT and Oracle Corp. ORCL regarding the leasing of Oracle’s cloud infrastructure reportedly came to a halt due to security and compliance issues. The objective was to transfer some of Microsoft’s workloads to Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure.
Oracle carried out layoffs in March. A new filing shows how much smaller the workforce is compared to this time last year.
Oracle (NYSE:ORCL | ORCL Price Prediction) at $175 looks compelling on the data. The stock has been pulled into the broader software compression trade even as its Q4 report revealed a $638 billion AI backlog that locks in years of forward revenue.
Oracle shares dropped about 9% after its earnings call, while SAP slid more than 3% in early US trading. The trigger was Oracle earnings where the company said capital expenditure could reach as much as $95 billion in fiscal 2027, far above the $67.7 billion analysts had expected.
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OpenAI struck a deal to run its models and Codex tool across Oracle’s cloud
OpenAI has agreed to deploy its AI models and its Codex coding assistant across Oracle’s cloud infrastructure, a deal that gives the San Francisco-based AI company additional compute capacity beyond its existing providers.
Microsoft was recently in talks with Oracle for cloud infrastructure, but sources say the deal fell through over security and compliance concerns.
Oracle has been my focus this month, and the recent selloff has only sharpened that focus. The stock has dropped 29.45% since June 1, the financial press is hyperventilating about cash burn, and my cost basis keeps falling while my conviction keeps rising.
June 16 (Reuters) - Oracle said on Tuesday that details in a Business Insider report on the collapse of its discussions with Microsoft over a potential leasing deal were inaccurate. The report had said that Microsoft's discussions with Oracle regarding a cloud infrastructure leasing deal have fallen apart due to security and compliance concerns.
