AI fuels fresh rush into data streaming platforms
More tools, more chaos
Investment in data streaming is ballooning as firms chase AI dreams yet find themselves tangled in a growing thicket of platforms.
Oracle faces curse of OpenAI
Big Red’s grand AI punt keeps shredding its own valuation
Oracle’s market value has been sliding like a greased ferret since 10 September, when it trumpeted its $300bn deal with OpenAI and watched roughly $315bn vanish in the process.
Cloudflare stumble knocks swathes of the internet offline
Morning traffic surge sends major sites into a tailspin
A sudden Cloudflare meltdown on Tuesday morning left large chunks of the internet wheezing as sites from social media to retail and transport threw up baffling error messages.
Meta skates past FTC in monopoly fight
Judge bins antitrust bid to break up Facebook parent
A federal judge has tossed the latest swipe from the Federal Trade Commission at Meta, leaving the social networking giant looking rather smug.
TSMC discovers the American dream costs a fortune
Arizona Fab’s profits fall off a cliff
TSMC’s big Arizona adventure was supposed to be a landmark moment for the US chip industry, although it now looks more like an expensive lesson in why fabs prefer cheaper postcodes.