Get all your news in one place.
100's of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Bruno Ferreira

Oracle reportedly set to axe thousands of jobs and freeze hiring as AI data center bets ignite financial perfect storm — cuts in cloud division to be backfilled with AI

Oracle Larry Ellison.

The job reaper of AI has visited many a home in the past year alone, and this time it's knocking at Larry Ellison's door. According to a Bloomberg report citing inside sources, the database and cloud service giant is preparing to fire thousands of people across multiple divisions.

These layoff plans are still private, but Bloomberg's sources expect they'll happen this calendar month. As for a reason for the cuts, two informants said they'll happen in job categories that Oracle expects to effectively backfill with AI. This new wave of cuts is also reportedly not within the scope of the firm's usual layoff cycle.

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100's of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.