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Big Tech’s ‘breathtaking’ $660bn spending spree reignites AI bubble fears
Stocks tumble despite strong earnings reports from most Silicon Valley heavyweights
Warner Bros rejects Paramount’s ‘inadequate’ $108bn hostile bid
Board warns shareholders over ‘extraordinary’ amount of debt financing and $4.7bn of costs if it backs out of Netflix deal
Global shares jump as markets cheer US inflation surprise
ECB opted to keep rates unchanged but offered more positive commentary on euro area economy
Oracle move opens questions for AI’s investment boom
US giant delaying completion date for some OpenAI data centres
Oracle shares fall 14% on increase in data centre spending
Larry Ellison’s company raises its capital expenditure forecast as it doubles down on AI infrastructure bet
Today’s stock market round-up: How shares fared in Dublin, London, Europe and New York
Oracle’s disappointing quarterly forecasts led to declines in some of the world’s biggest tech names
OpenAI partners amass $100bn debt pile to fund its ambitions
Cloud companies and developers rely on loss-making start-up to repay huge loans
Google’s gains and Meta’s woes show a more cautious AI market
Markets appear to be increasingly wary of big AI promises unsupported by cash flow or path to profitability
OpenAI’s network of deals is propping up the AI boom
Obvious risk is if ChatGPT growth falters, mutual benefit could flip into mutual impairment
Ego or strategy? The motives behind Elon Musk’s $1bn Tesla buy
Sceptics note Tesla boss bought company shares after he had been briefly supplanted by Oracle’s Larry Ellison as world’s richest man
Tech titan Larry Ellison: ‘No one else has prospered in Silicon Valley for 50 years’
At 81, Oracle’s co-founder has reinvented himself as a power in AI to become (briefly) the richest person in the world
Oracle’s share price surge suggests the AI trade still has momentum
Larry Ellison’s personal fortune rose by more than $88bn overnight, the biggest one-day wealth gain in history
Larry Ellison overtakes Elon Musk to become world’s richest person
Oracle market value jumps more than $290bn on AI surge after ‘astonishing quarter’
Big Tech bosses court favour with Trumps at White House dinner
Heads of Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Apple back AI initiative spearheaded by first lady Melania Trump
‘The threat of the US kneecapping itself is real’: tech insiders voice fears over global AI race
Tariffs and threat of new duties on chips and computing infrastructure could frustrate American ambitions
Public mood swings against the sultans of Silicon Valley
What wealth can’t always buy is admiration. And that’s an area in which the tech titans have suffered major losses
Ellison, Binance and Sequoia back Musk’s $44bn bid for Twitter
Biggest backing of $1bn comes from Oracle co-founder
State’s data watchdog criticised with ‘Big Brother’ award
German privacy groups claim Irish regulator behind ‘sabotage’ of EU data privacy laws
Oracle’s Irish unit funds €1bn payment to the US technology group
Staff numbers last year at the tech giant’s Dublin operation fell by about 200
Oracle bets on cloud boom to forecast upbeat profit
Businesses increasing spending to support developing trend of hybrid working
Eastpoint Business Park office block with potential at €6.25m
Block H for sale with full vacant possession and scope for full or partial redevelopment
Eastpoint Business Park office block at €12.5m offers 6.72% yield
Dublin docklands investment is 73% let and generating €923,517 in annual rental income
Version 1 sets up camp in Newcastle Upon Tyne with 200 new jobs
Irish IT services firm to establish base as part of Newcastle’s booming tech sector
Google appoints Adaire Fox-Martin as new Irish head
Former schoolteacher from Dublin will step into role vacated by Australian Nick Leeder
European stocks drop as Omicron worries intensify
Travel stocks fell 1 per cent, but were above their intra-day lows touched earlier in session
European shares slide amid hawkish moves by central banks
Tech stocks decline on Wall Street, while Dublin market bucks trend
Omicron chill continues to hold back equity markets
US indices rise as inflation report is in line with expectations
Tech groups say SAP, Oracle and Microsoft are unfair digital ‘gatekeepers’
DMA ‘falls short’ of addressing ‘unfair’ licensing practices, groups say
‘Somebody saw something in me that maybe I didn’t see in myself’
Adaire Fox-Martin returned to hometown Dublin to head Google’s European cloud wing
Amazon strikes deal with UK spy agencies to host top-secret material
High-security cloud system will be used by GCHQ, MI5 and MI6
Corporation tax revenue forecast to hit record €13.9bn this year
Department of Finance ups forecast by €400m in one week
Tesla moving headquarters to Texas from California
Company is building massive car and battery manufacturing complex in Texas
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