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Oracle shares surged seven percent in after-hours trading after the enterprise software giant posted an earnings beat that caught Wall Street's attention. The headline driver was cloud infrastructure revenue, which more than doubled year over year, and management's revenue backlog figures came in well ahead of expectations, signaling strong demand momentum heading into the next fiscal year.
Pivoting to Silicon Valley, Meta is quietly walking back one of its more aggressive management cuts. The company is now asking certain employees in its Applied AI division whether they'd like to step back into manager roles, a partial reversal of a reorganization that had specifically targeted middle management for elimination. It's a telling signal that leaner doesn't always mean faster, especially when you're scaling complex AI operations at speed.
And over at Nvidia's chief executive Jensen Huang took the stage at a Goldman Sachs technology conference and made a remark that raised more than a few eyebrows. Huang suggested that AI-driven cybersecurity concerns could themselves generate new commercial opportunities, noting, quote, what better way to create demand than to create a problem. Whether that was candor or provocation, it landed squarely in the middle of an ongoing debate about AI risk and who profits from it.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
