IBM CEO pay pack jumps 51% for 2025 in target smash and grab
…The relatively low pay - for a tech company - indicates that much of IBM's workers are based in lower cost countries. The Reg reported years ago that IBM said about a third…
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Oracle AI obsession could mean higher prices, worse support
…Advisors in Oracle negotiations said support levels are declining, while costs might increase as discounts disappear. Others have warned of a tougher approach to contract negotiations. Oracle is aggressively expanding AI datacenter…
AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in
…You can look at cost per instance or cost per terabyte, and what you'll need to keep the business model in good shape, and perhaps you won't be entirely wrong…
AI is reshaping Britain's datacenter map away from London
…West London in particular is "beginning to reach saturation point," according to cloud and colocation biz Pulsant , with limited land and electrical grid capacity. The borough of Slough reportedly has up to…
Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics
…facilities, and operations costs, and anything that's left over is profit. "For the datacenters, inference tokens per watt translates directly to the revenues of the CSPs" (cloud service providers), Nvidia CEO…
Bad teacher bots can leave hidden marks on model students
…The process, called distillation, is driven by the fact that "developers are running out of training data, and larger models are more costly to run and take longer to respond to users…
Oracle tops up restructuring fund for FY26 by $500M
…It has since emerged that the $300 billion cloud compute contract with OpenAI alone would require Oracle to borrow roughly $100 billion over the next four years . Big Red has raised $18…
Tiny violins as Amazon execs face pay packet pinch
…Jassy’s $365,000 base salary was unchanged, and the rest consisted mainly of security costs, business travel expenses, and retirement contributions. The market value of shares or units of stock that…
Oracle taps Bloom for fuel cells to support datacenter binge
…This builds on an agreement drawn up last year, under which Bloom claims it delivered a fully operational fuel cell system to power an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) site in just 55…
Amazon security boss: AI makes pentesting 40% more efficient
…all the work." Historically, this has been a very human- and resource-intensive endeavor, costing the cloud and online retail giant "millions and millions of dollars in humans" - both AWS employees and…