Oracle: news, timeline and key numbers

Oracle and Google said Google's Tensor Processing Units, the custom AI chips Google has developed for more than a decade, will be offered through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The deal gives Google another route into an AI chip market that Nvidia has dominated. It gives Oracle an option beyond Nvidia, with which it has signed agreements worth tens of billions of dollars.

Later, a security brief listed four vulnerabilities to know. A flaw in TianoCore EDK II, the open source codebase used to build UEFI boot-time firmware, became public after a planned January disclosure fell apart. Two critical bugs in PHP, the language behind roughly 70% of websites, sent organizations scrambling to patch. Some took sites offline until fixes were ready. Separately, investors grew uneasy about the cost of AI infrastructure, even as Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft pushed ahead with bigger plans. Concern shifted from enthusiasm for growth to negative free cash flow, rising debt and whether returns will justify the outlay.

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