17 minutes"The global race for dominance in artificial intelligence is turning into one of the most expensive and turbulent corporate competitions in history.
Tech giants Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta are expected to spend about $600 billion on AI infrastructure during 2026."
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GODDAMMIT. I just realized they’re speedrunning the creation of AM.
- dream_weasel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish10 hours
Why does Larry Ellison give me such crazy uncanny valley vibes?! Is his head too long? Moustache too narrow? Generally too smooth? It has fucked me up all day scrolling past this image.
- NehpetsDoom@lemmy.zipEnglish9 hours
I think his gotee and hair just look like absolute shit. Further proof nobody cares about him.
- Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish1 hour
It’s already irrelevant in most places. If you’re non-American you only heard of Oracle’s Sun acquisitions like mysql, virtualbox or openjdk.
- irish_link@lemmy.worldEnglish14 hours
No matter how much I try, all I see in this picture is Mel Brooks as President Skroob sniffing Air out of a can.
- 6 hours
I told you not to call me on this wall. This is an unlisted wall.
- Jankatarch@lemmy.worldEnglish14 hours
Fucking wild to read the article. Oracle got pissy because regulations said you can’t just shove datacenter electricity costs on people.
- arc99@lemmy.worldEnglish12 hours
I really want one or more of these AI companies to fail hard. I think their only strategy is literally to burn through billions hoping it’ll be another company that goes to the wall first and they’ll somehow reap the rewards by hanging on longer.
- curiousaur@reddthat.comEnglish7 hours
They’ve made it so they will all fail together. They’re bound. This way they can ensure a bailout, because if they don’t get a bailout, they will have a significant effect on the us economy on their way down.
- rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish22 hours
Start forcing users to use AI
lose staff
Fire staff so that AI can take over
lose staff
Find out AI can’t replace the users, get devalued
lose staffseems pretty toxic
- Cheebus@lemmy.worldEnglish11 hours
My last day at a dumpster fire AI slop company is next week, and I can’t wait.
- 20 hours
And this was after they fired about 30,000 employees.
- NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.caEnglish12 hours
So now they HAVE to double down and fund this AI infrastructure, because sunk costs dictate that they can’t admit to a bad decision and hire back the terminated employees.
Just because it’s costly doesn’t mean they aren’t going to push forward with all their might, unfortunately
- stringere@sh.itjust.worksEnglish9 hours
Anyone with sense still locked in to Oracle products needs to find their nearest exit strategy.
I know it won’t be easy, but the alternative is going to be a lot messier when they completely go to shit and you lose everything.
- plyth@feddit.orgEnglish20 hours
Buying Time Warner seems poisoned for digital companies, or their owners.
I’ve worked in IT for close to 30 years and I’ve never met anyone with a good word to say about Oracle. I remember them being notorious for auditing their customers and nailing them to wall for even the slightest perceived infraction of their convoluted license agreements. I don’t understand how they still exist.
I got my first computer at 15, in 2005, and even then they were very clearly bad just from my newbie experience and seeing forums posts. The word itself is so tainted for me because of them. One of the companies that “enshittified” way ahead of the curve.
- kunaltyagi@programming.devEnglish11 hours
Their sales and especially enterprise sales team are good at convincing people that they really need MySQL. Once their pitch works, then come the lawyers and the nailing part
- mirshafie@europe.pubEnglish14 hours
They exist for the same reason McAfee exists. They’re a CIA front.
Fr? Super interested do you know where I can read about this? :)
- mirshafie@europe.pubEnglish3 hours
There’s relatively little information given how prominent these companies are. But the CIA was the first customer of both companies, and were most likely involved in their founding. Here’s a article to get you started on Oracle: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/oracle-s-coziness-with-government-goes-back-to-2820370.php
John McAfee claimed he never used McAfee VirusScan. He never said why but while on the run in Belize he said no one should use VirusScan. My wild guess is that it might be because it scans for lots of stuff that aren’t in your interest as a user, and probably provides a convenient backdoor into your computer for certain people.
If you want the weird stuff on Oracle there’s a crazy woman who’s obsessed with Larry Ellison that writes all kinds of things about him on a place called the Drey Dossier.
JDK is the greatest scam ever.
When something needs JDK, most people usually just download the first one they find without much thought, just like with any dependency, which is Oracle’s, instead of OpenJDK.
Oracle will go after companies where their employees unknowlingly installed their JDK for some minor thing, and hit them with multimillion fine for breaking their license after a while. Or at least I remember hearing they used to.
Blocking anything Oracle company-wide, especially JDK, is the first thing an IT admin should do.
- 1 day
Yes but on top their software is clunky and lacks basic usability?
- rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish22 hours
auditing their customers and nailing them to wall
Vendor lock-in is quite profitable.
Big on Govt projects too
- architect@thelemmy.clubEnglish23 hours
Yet they keep working for an evil company. They could have not done that. Had a little integrity. But no, so…
Oh hey I’m from the future where you get judged harshly for where you choose to work.
- Diurnambule@jlai.luEnglish24 hours
It is really performant for the job it is required to do, they sell haxadata server which have really high performances
- architect@thelemmy.clubEnglish23 hours
People shouldn’t be working for super villains.
People stand around wondering why the fuck these companies are able to do what they do and these billionaires the same. WELL BECAUSE YOU WORK FOR THEM CHAD. IT’S LITERALLY YOUR FAULT!
- 21 hours
In a shitty job market, a job for the supervillain is better than starving and being homeless.
This rhetoric comes from a place of privilege.
- Bazoogle@lemmy.worldEnglish19 hours
Lmao, they are quite literally saying it is the suffering peoples fault. Evil supervillains literally find and abuse any leverage they can get to make people work for them, depriving them of any other option. That’s why they’re supervillains to begin with.
- wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish18 hours
It’s not shitty enough to completely leave your ethics at the door. You might need to take a little less pay, or work on something less interesting (although we’re talking about Oracle here).
Somebody who landed a job at Oracle had options. That is until today. Now they have 21,000 other people to compete with.
It’s the people somewhere like Nvidia I have some empathy for. They thought they were building gaming tech and they’ve ended up building the apocalypse.
- 13 hours
Lol, I will admit, Oracle is like working for Palintir, you know what you’re signing up for.
- 1 day
I used to work for Oracle and this pleases me. Nobody should have to work for Oracle.
- 1 day
I worked with Oracle software, and … basically the same statement.
- BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish20 hours
Some Oracle hr droid tried to hire me fresh out of university. It’s been “some” years, and I’ve never heard anybody saying that I was a fool for turning it down.
