bet they woulda been fired even if ai was generously adopted
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Fire Larry and sell his stock and his yachts and you'll be in the black again.
Imagine failing this hard at your job and keeping it.
And I know his job is to keep the stock price high.. but 28 percent growth over the last five years in tech is still failing at your job.
“Double digit YoY or get out. Doesn’t matter how many people you have to fire or how hard to exploit the ones you keep. Double digit or GTFO.” -Shareholders
Besides the usual CEO shenanigans, they really want AI to succeed, to replace usually leftist intellectuals with a far-right AI.
Are you americans ready for the bailout? Open your wallets wide!
I too see it coming.
email/call your reps pre-emptively and say no bailouts
Devastating exititis.
"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."
...
GODDAMMIT. I just realized they're speedrunning the creation of AM.
But is it smart enough to turn to Darwin at the silicon or the molecular hardware layer, before the AI winter is here? Because it will be fimbulwinter this time.
Fuckin hopefully not dude, i don't wanna see am spring into existence. I still have a mouth to scream with and I'd prefer to keep It
Why is this news for a site like Jerusalem Post?
because everyone else already posted this 6 months ago
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.
Why does Larry Ellison give me such crazy uncanny valley vibes?!
He turns 82 next month.
He looks like an older Vincent Price.
First time I saw him I thoughr he looked like John McAfee.
New incredibly niche conspiracy theory just dropped
I think his gotee and hair just look like absolute shit. Further proof nobody cares about him.
Good. Let em burn
Imagine. Oracle not being relevant. The dream
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.
What are: 3 technologies I stopped using 20 years ago?
No matter how much I try, all I see in this picture is Mel Brooks as President Skroob sniffing Air out of a can.
I told you not to call me on this wall. This is an unlisted wall.
Fucking wild to read the article. Oracle got pissy because regulations said you can't just shove datacenter electricity costs on people.
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.
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.
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 staff
seems pretty toxic
My last day at a dumpster fire AI slop company is next week, and I can’t wait.
And this was after they fired about 30,000 employees.
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
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.
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.
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.
A prior company I worked at had a compliance division whose work was about 80% Oracle. As in, their attention over preventing Oracle JRE installs in favour of Azul Java was 4× higher than ensuring anything Microsoft - or anything else under the sun, actually - was properly licensed.
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