billion-dollar deals

The $300B Bet: How Oracle Became AI’s Dark-Horse Supercloud

You Won’t Believe the $300 Billion AI Deal Shaking Silicon Valley 🚀

Is the Oracle-OpenAI-Nvidia Deal Fueling a New AI Bubble? The Oracle–OpenAI–Nvidia partnership is unprecedented in scale – a $300 billion bet to build next-generation AI supercomputers. It has captivated investors, but also sparked debate over whether the AI industry is entering bubble territory. Inside the $300 Billion AI Mega-Deal OpenAI 🤝 Oracle – a 5-Year, $300B Commitment: In September 2025, OpenAI and Oracle revealed a five-year cloud computing agreement worth $300 billion. The news caught markets off-guard and instantly became one of the largest tech deals ever inked. OpenAI – the firm behind ChatGPT – is essentially pre-booking massive computing power from Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure

19 September 2025

AI’s 48-Hour Frenzy: Billion-Dollar Deals, Breakthroughs and Global Showdowns (Sept 10–11, 2025)

Corporate & Tech Industry Updates OpenAI’s Historic Cloud Deal with Oracle: OpenAI and Oracle have reportedly inked a $300 billion cloud computing deal, securing massive computing power for OpenAI over the next five years techcrunch.com. If confirmed, it ranks among the largest cloud contracts ever. Oracle declined comment and OpenAI hasn’t confirmed it, but the sheer scale sent shockwaves through the industry. Oracle’s stock skyrocketed 36% in one day – its biggest jump since 1992 – lifting its valuation close to $1 trillion reuters.com. This “Oracle mania” ignited an AI-fueled rally in Asian tech markets from Tokyo to Taipei reuters.com reuters.com, reflecting

11 September 2025

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AI’s Wild Weekend: Billion-Dollar Battles, Big Tech Showdowns & Breakthroughs (Sept 6–7, 2025)

Key Facts Summary Authors vs. AI: $1.5 Billion Settlement and New Copyright Battles Content creators scored a major victory against AI firms.Anthropic – maker of the Claude chatbot – agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by authors who alleged the startup illegally downloaded millions of pirated books to train its AI bloomberg.com. The unprecedented deal (about $3,000 per book for ~500,000 titles) is being called the largest-ever copyright recovery in the AI field axios.com ts2.tech. Under the agreement, Anthropic will delete all illicit book data taken from shadow libraries and pay authors for past use axios.com. “This settlement

7 September 2025

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AI Stocks’ Wild Start to September: Mega-Rallies, Billion-Dollar Deals & Hype Under Fire

Key Facts Market Overview: AI Stocks Face September Reality Check The week opened with a notable cool-down in the red-hot AI trade, as investors returned from summer break and took profits in crowded tech positions. On September 2, U.S. indices fell roughly 0.7–0.8%, led by the previously high-flying “AI beneficiary” stocks reuters.com. This pullback followed a massive year-to-date rally in AI names and coincided with broader risk-off sentiment (amid worries over tariffs, inflation, and rising bond yields) reuters.com reuters.com. Analysts and fund managers indicated that the selling was broad-based and largely driven by risk management rather than a fundamental crack

3 September 2025

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Tech Turbulence: Billion-Dollar Deals, Cyber Strikes & Space Feats – Global Tech Roundup (Aug 29–30, 2025)

Key Facts (More details and expert insights on these developments below.) Consumer Tech & Gadgets Google’s Pixel 10 Debuts: Google’s latest flagship phones, the Pixel 10 series, hit store shelves this week after an official unveiling. The 10th-gen Pixels sport a refreshed design with a satin-finish aluminum frame, polished glass back, and the signature camera bar in four new colors blog.google. A bright 6.3-inch OLED display (up to 3000 nits) and improved stereo speakers aim to elevate media viewing blog.google. Notably, the standard Pixel 10 gains a 5× telephoto lens for the first time, enabling up to 10× optical-quality zoom and 20×

30 August 2025

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AI Stocks Frenzy: Billion-Dollar Deals, Big Tech Bets & Global Surprises (Aug 14–15, 2025)

Bridgewater Associates more than doubled its Nvidia stake and added to Alphabet and Microsoft holdings in Q2, underscoring conviction that AI mega-caps will drive market gains. On August 14, Oracle and Alphabet’s Google Cloud announced a deal to offer Google’s Gemini generative AI models through Oracle Cloud and to integrate Vertex AI, letting Oracle customers access Gemini on Google infrastructure. Tesla scrapped its in-house Dojo AI supercomputer and pivoted to a unified AI chip roadmap dubbed AI5 and AI6, signaling continued reliance on external GPUs and benefiting Nvidia. On August 14, Nvidia stock fell about 2.5% for the week to

15 August 2025

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Historic Splashdowns, Lunar Leaps & Billion-Dollar Space Deals (Aug 8–9, 2025)

NASA’s Crew-10 astronauts Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Takuya Onishi, and Kirill Peskov completed a 146-day mission with a splashdown off the California coast at 11:33 a.m. ET on Aug. 9, 2025, the first crewed West Coast splashdown under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. China completed the first full-scale test of the Lanyue (“Embrace the Moon”) crewed lunar lander in Hebei on Aug. 6, 2025, validating its ascent and descent engines ahead of a 2030 lunar mission. ULA’s Vulcan rocket is slated for its first national-security launch with mission USSF-106 as early as Aug. 12, 2025, marking Vulcan’s inaugural national-security and Post-Certification

9 August 2025

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Space Race Shake-Up: NASA Kills Moon Probe, Record Launches & Billion-Dollar Deals (Aug 4–5, 2025 Roundup)

NASA formally ended the Lunar Trailblazer mission on July 31 after a Feb. 26 liftoff, a ~$94 million low-cost orbiter meant to map lunar ice with two novel instruments that lost contact the day after launch and showed misaligned solar panels draining the batteries. NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity marked 13 years on Mars, with software upgrades enabling it to drive and relay data to orbiters simultaneously, extending science hours after 4,600 Martian days. NASA’s Artemis II astronauts will orbit the Moon in about six months, marking the first crewed lunar flyby in 53 years. ISS Crew-11 Dragon docked at the

5 August 2025

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AI’s Big Bang: Billion-Dollar Deals, Breakthroughs & Backlash (Aug 4–5, 2025 AI Roundup)

OpenAI raised $8.3 billion at a $300 billion valuation in a funding round led by Dragoneer with a $2.8 billion check, as SoftBank commits up to $40 billion in total (with $10 billion already in April and $30 billion more by year-end) and new backers include Blackstone, TPG, and Sequoia. AI-driven M&A surged to $2.6 trillion in the first seven months of 2025, up 28% in value year over year despite a 16% decline in deal count, led by U.S. mega-deals over $10 billion. In Europe, Engie, RWE, and Enel are repurposing aging coal and gas plants as AI data

5 August 2025

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