Oracle

Global – October 28, 2026 -- Snowflake and Oracle plan to offer Snowflake's AI Data Cloud as a native, first-party service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), with customers buying and being billed directly through Oracle. The companies describe the offering as planned, not committed, and no launch date has been given.

Snowflake on OCI would bring AI, analytics, data engineering, transactions, applications and collaboration workloads closer to enterprise data held in Oracle databases, Oracle applications and OCI services.

Oracle would sell and bill Snowflake directly through OCI

Customers would contract with Oracle, be billed through OCI and could pay with Oracle Universal Credits. Accounts would be provisioned through the OCI control plane. Customers would then manage warehouses, databases, data pipelines and access controls with standard Snowflake tools.

LAS VEGAS – October 27, 2026 -- Oracle will roll out AI-generated business ontologies, a semantic reasoning engine and an AI agent registry within the next 12 months as part of its AI Data Platform, and has launched a services offering to move enterprise AI projects into production. The company announced the moves at Oracle AI World.

AI Discovery agent drafts ontologies from schemas and documents

Oracle's AI Discovery agent generates business ontologies by analyzing database schemas, semantic models, application and API documentation, and business knowledge held in unstructured documents. Domain experts review and refine the output before approving it as the shared foundation for all AI solutions. The platform also monitors how agents use the ontologies and recommends updates for expert approval.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- An enterprise running 9,000 AI agents can still miss measurable business outcomes if those agents handle tasks that structured workflows could run more efficiently, according to AppsTek Corp, which builds enterprise AI on Oracle platforms.

Workflows run predictable rules while agents handle uncertainty

A workflow executes a predefined sequence of business logic, while an AI agent decides parts of that sequence as work progresses. Workflows move invoices, validate records, route approvals and trigger integrations. Agents interpret context, select tools and retrieve knowledge once uncertainty enters a process. Choosing the highest level of autonomy every time usually raises cost without raising value, AppsTek argues.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- Oracle AI Database can now run across five environments: OCI, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and supported on-premises setups. It can also run on Oracle-managed infrastructure inside the customer data center. Migration is therefore an architecture decision before it is a data-movement exercise, according to guidance from Oracle services provider AppsTek.

NEW YORK – October 19, 2026 -- The four largest hyperscalers plan more than $700 billion of capital spending this year, and Egan-Jones Ratings expects mainstream support from both US parties to keep the AI buildout going despite public opposition to local data centers.

Gallup poll shows 71% of Americans oppose a local AI data center

Egan-Jones cites Gallup data showing 71% of Americans oppose a local AI data center, against 53% for a nuclear plant. Its commentary draws a parallel with drug makers, which have stayed unpopular for years yet kept bipartisan backing while leading all other industries in federal lobbying almost every quarter since 2010.

AI has also gained ground at the ballot box. The pro-AI super PAC network Leading the Future has raised $140 million for the midterms.

Global – – October 19, 2026 -- The ShinyHunters extortion gang claims it has stolen data from 300 Oracle PeopleSoft instances across more than 100 organizations, BleepingComputer reported on 10 June 2026. The group says it is targeting both cloud and on-premises deployments of the enterprise suite, which large organizations use for HR, payroll, finance, supply chain, procurement and student administration.

Education sector bears most of the attacks

Most affected organizations are in education, and many were previously extorted by the same actor. ShinyHunters confirmed Nottingham University as a victim and has already published its data on the group's leak site. The university has acknowledged a cybersecurity incident in a statement.

Raleigh – October 13, 2026 -- Ledger Run, a clinical trial financial management provider, has appointed former Cytel and Oracle product executive Anne Pelz as Vice President of Product and is increasing R&D spending to build an AI-powered, end-to-end financial platform.

Pelz brings more than two decades of life sciences technology experience

Pelz began her career in product management at PHT Corporation, later acquired by Clario, where she led development of what became Clario's cornerstone mobile tool. She then moved to Parexel, managing medical imaging software development and working as a solutions consultant for its eCOA division. As vice president of product at Cytel, she helped build and launch a clinical trials management platform, before taking a similar executive role at Oracle. She holds an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Yale University and an MBA from MIT Sloan.

Austin – October 02, 2026 -- Oracle has committed to subscribing to a portion of electricity generated by the Point Beach Nuclear Plant in Wisconsin, a move expected to save utility customers approximately $300 million in fuel costs. The commitment is designed to shield more than 1 million Wisconsin utility customers from the plant's rising operating costs while preserving carbon-free baseload power for the state grid.

Oracle absorbs rising nuclear fuel costs to protect household electricity bills

Point Beach has supplied dependable, carbon-free power to Wisconsin for more than 50 years. By subscribing to a share of the plant's output, Oracle intends to cover increases in fuel costs that would otherwise be passed on to ratepayers, according to Mahesh Thiagarajan, executive vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Menlo Park, Calif. – September 24, 2026 -- MyOme, Inc. has made its predictive genomic insights platform and testing services available worldwide by running them on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), the companies announced.

MyOme joins Oracle PartnerNetwork to widen healthcare distribution

The clinical whole-genome analysis firm has also joined Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), enabling distribution of its capabilities through the Oracle ecosystem and Oracle Marketplace to a broader base of healthcare organizations.

Austin, Texas – September 24, 2026 -- Oracle has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Trade Finance Systems 2026 Vendor Assessment, a report that evaluated 12 vendors serving corporate banks. The recognition cites Oracle Banking Trade and Supply Chain Finance for running five documented AI agents in live production across letter-of-credit workability, guarantee validation, corporate advisory, supply chain finance program creation, and management functions.