12 h. ago Oracle shares tumble as worries swirl over huge spending on data centres

Larry Ellison’s company raises its capital expenditure forecast as it doubles down on AI infrastructure bet

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21 h. ago FTSE 100 Live 11 December: Index firm despite tech jitters, Drax plans data centre

Tech stocks and Bitcoin were under pressure today after Oracle Corp results soured the mood in the wake of last night’s US interest rate cut.

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21 h. ago Google DeepMind to build its first robotic science laboratory in the UK – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsIn the energy sector, Russia’s revenues from exports of crude oil and refined products has fallen to its lowest level since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.The International Energy Agency has reported this morning that Moscow’s sales of fossil fuels fell again in November due to lower export volumes and weaker prices.These brighter prospects extend to our 2026 forecast, which we have upgraded by 90 kb/d, to 860 kb/d y-o-y.“We need to ask who is setting the agenda for the UK’s future with AI.”“In the absence of independent regulation or scrutiny, we’re at the mercy of technology companies’ commercial interests aligning with what the public want.” Continue reading...

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22 h. ago FTSE 100 Live 11 December: Oracle results dampen US rate cut rally, Bitcoin drops

Tech stocks and Bitcoin were under pressure today after Oracle Corp results soured the mood in the wake of last night’s US interest rate cut.

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23 h. ago FTSE 100 Live 11 December: Oracle results stall US rate cut rally, Bitcoin drops

Tech stocks and Bitcoin were under pressure today after Oracle Corp results soured the mood in the wake of last night’s US interest rate cut.

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31 h. ago Oracle shares slide as it adds $15bn to data centre spending

Larry Ellison’s company raises its capital expenditure forecast as it doubles down on AI infrastructure bet

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31 h. ago Oracle shares slide on $15bn increase in data centre spending

Larry Ellison’s company raises its capital expenditure forecast as it doubles down on AI infrastructure bet

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66 h. ago FTSE 100 LIVE: London stocks rise as data shows spending dip on lacklustre Black Friday

FTSE 100 LIVE: London stocks rise as data shows spending dip on lacklustre Black Friday  Yahoo Finance UK

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2 d. ago FTSE 100 LIVE: London stocks flat as data shows spending dip on lacklustre Black Friday

FTSE 100 LIVE: London stocks flat as data shows spending dip on lacklustre Black Friday  Yahoo Finance UK

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1 week ago Black Friday busiest day of the year so far for retailers, figures show

Spending data from Barclays shows transactions on November 28 reached a 2025-high, up 62% on the average.

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2 w. ago Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI

When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts sayKrista Pawloski remembers the single defining moment that shaped her opinion on the ethics of artificial intelligence. As an AI worker on Amazon Mechanical Turk – a marketplace that allows companies to hire workers to perform tasks like entering data or matching an AI prompt with its output – Pawloski spends her time moderating and assessing the quality of AI-generated text, images and videos, as well as some factchecking.Roughly two years ago, while working from home at her dining room table, she took up a job designating tweets as racist or not. When she was presented with a tweet that read “Listen to that mooncricket sing”, she almost clicked on the “no” button before deciding to check the meaning of the word “mooncricket”, which, to her surprise, was a racial slur against Black Americans. Continue reading...

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