Oracle shares tumble
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AI spending is front and center again for investors. Oracle plunged Thursday, with top hardware makers including Nvidia and Broadcom also dropping.
While the cloud giant beat earnings per share and sales growth forecasts, its revenue numbers came in lower than expected.
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Oracle stock fell 11% today, as investors fret over how much the company is spending to build out AI data centers for OpenAI and others. Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison, whose roughly 40% stake has made
Oracle shares slid more than 6% on Wednesday in after-hours trading, after the software giant posted revenue results that missed expectations.
Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft—and, more recently, Oracle have poured money into data centres crammed full of pricey AI chips. The combined capital expenditure of the five tech companies reached $313bn in the 12 months to the end of June,
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