Oracle wants to bill you for every AI task, not just every seat
Oracle plans to implement usage-based pricing for AI tasks within its enterprise software, moving beyond a simple per-seat subscription model.
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Oracle plans to implement usage-based pricing for AI tasks within its enterprise software, moving beyond a simple per-seat subscription model.
KineDB has raised €850,000 in pre-seed funding to develop a general-purpose database for cloud and offline environments.
Inference cloud startup General Compute raised $100 million in Series A funding, bucking predictions of a funding downturn in the AI cloud infrastructure sector.
Akamai launches AI Inference and Agent Sandbox services to enable enterprises to deploy and execute AI models and agents on its cloud platform with global edge coverage.
Amazon Web Services becomes official AI and cloud partner for the FIA, providing infrastructure and machine learning capabilities across all levels of motor sport from club racing to Formula 1.
Quake AI, a newly rebranded neocloud provider, positions itself as infrastructure for AI agents rather than human users, operating 22,000 GPUs.
NVIDIA and Oracle have made AI computing resources, including Vera CPUs and Rubin systems, available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with plans to scale capacity further.
Oracle announces availability of Google's TPU AI accelerators and Cerebras and OpenAI inference chips through its public cloud platform.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announces AWS computing capacity is largely sold out through 2027, with commitments extending into 2028, driven by AI infrastructure demand.
Broadcom signed a 10-year agreement with NTT DOCOMO to provide VMware Cloud Foundation, supporting private cloud and AI workloads.
Nvidia has committed over $170 billion toward neoclouds and major customers as demand surges, according to filing analysis by The Information.
Leidos wins a $95M five-year contract to add AI automation and cloud tools to the Pentagon's logistics tracking system (ELMS), which manages over $140B in government property.
European cloud companies raised €5.9 billion in H1 2026, with the UK dominating via infrastructure plays; Nscale led with $4.19B for AI computing infrastructure powered by renewable energy.
A Google datacentre outage in London cascaded across banking, court systems and NHS services, highlighting UK vulnerability to failures in infrastructure controlled by a few dominant cloud providers.
Daytona, a cloud infrastructure platform for AI agents, raised $60M in Series B funding at a $1B valuation, led by FirstMark with backing from founders at Stripe, Quora, Shopify, Datadog, Perplexity and Zoom.