Five Minute Briefing - Oracle
October 1, 2025
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News Flashes
OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank are announcing five new U.S. AI data center sites through the Stargate partnership, OpenAI's overarching AI infrastructure platform. The combined capacity from these five new sites—along with the flagship site in Abilene, Texas, and ongoing projects with CoreWeave—brings Stargate to nearly 7 gigawatts of planned capacity and over $400 billion in investment over the next three years.
Oracle Financial Services announced that Oracle Banking Payments has been validated as a Swift Compatible Application—empowering financial institutions to feel confident in leveraging Oracle's solutions to help meet Swift standards for payment security, interoperability, and regulatory compliance, while benefitting from modern, AI-enabled payment messaging processing.
A group of three investors, including Oracle, and private-equity firm Silver Lake, will take a roughly 50% stake in TikTok U.S., capping off months of talks regarding efforts to extract TikTok's U.S. assets from the global platform, line up American investors, and win approval from the Chinese government.
Quest IOUG Database & Technology Community News
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, businesses can no longer afford the long timelines and heavy budgets that come with traditional application development. Organizations need to innovate faster, deliver secure apps at scale, and keep pace with evolving user expectations—all without ballooning costs or resources.
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, businesses can no longer afford the long timelines and heavy budgets that come with traditional application development. Organizations need to innovate faster, deliver secure apps at scale, and keep pace with evolving user expectations—all without ballooning costs or resources.
Quest IOUG Database & Technology Community News
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, businesses can no longer afford the long timelines and heavy budgets that come with traditional application development. Organizations need to innovate faster, deliver secure apps at scale, and keep pace with evolving user expectations—all without ballooning costs or resources.
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, businesses can no longer afford the long timelines and heavy budgets that come with traditional application development. Organizations need to innovate faster, deliver secure apps at scale, and keep pace with evolving user expectations—all without ballooning costs or resources.