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Oracle has cut jobs across its cloud division, striking teams in the US, India, and Canada while pushing ahead with massive AI data center expansion. In Seattle, more than 150 employees lost their roles, including engineers and AI/ML specialists. At the same time, Oracle is hiring aggressively to support multi-billion-dollar contracts with OpenAI and others, underscoring tech’s tough balancing act: cutting staff while scaling AI infrastructure at breakneck speed.

CoreWeave’s Q2 revenue surged 207% to $1.21B, but heavy infrastructure spending pushed debt beyond $25B and net losses to $290.5M. The GPU-focused cloud provider is racing to meet AI demand, targeting 900MW capacity by year’s end. Yet, reliance on a few major clients—Microsoft and Nvidia among them—raises questions over the sustainability of its rapid expansion.

RAKsmart has opened a self-owned datacenter in São Paulo, aiming to slash latency for businesses across Brazil and Latin America. The facility offers customizable server configurations, optimized network routes, and enterprise-grade infrastructure to support industries from e-commerce to gaming. Positioned in Brazil’s commercial hub, the expansion gives local and global companies faster, more stable connections while meeting regional data compliance requirements.

Microsoft is piloting Windows 365 Reserve, a service that shifts employees to temporary cloud PCs when their primary machines fail. Businesses can run these Azure-hosted desktops for up to 10 days and manage them through Intune. The service still requires users to have a secondary device, and major outages could strain capacity. The gated beta gives selected companies up to 12 weeks of no-cost access.

DigitalOcean has upsized its convertible senior notes offering to $550 million, set to mature in 2030, after strong investor demand. Proceeds will refinance $1.13B in 2026 notes, fund capped call transactions, and support corporate needs. The move comes as the cloud provider deepens its AI footprint with GPU-powered services and its Gradient platform, positioning itself to compete in specialized cloud and AI markets.

Cloudways, part of DigitalOcean, has launched Copilot, an AI-driven hosting tool aimed at preventing and fixing website issues before they escalate. Unlike AI assistants focused on building sites, Copilot targets post-launch problems like DDoS attacks, slow queries, and disk space errors—often resolving them in minutes. Early users report major time savings, signaling a shift in managed hosting from reactive support to proactive, automated intervention.