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Oracle shares surged more than seven percent in premarket trading Friday after first quarter results showed meaningful artificial intelligence cloud growth and a tighter cash burn profile. The stock had been down more than twenty one percent on the year heading into the print, so bulls are treating this as a meaningful reset of the narrative around Oracle's competitive position in enterprise cloud.
Shifting to the broader tech landscape, the case for Alphabet and Amazon is getting louder despite persistent concerns about capital expenditure levels. Amazon's server investments are reportedly paying back in under three years, a timeline that reframes what looked like a spending problem into a capital efficiency story. That framing matters when rate sensitivity is still a live conversation.
And on this twenty fifth anniversary of September eleventh, cities across the country are pausing to remember. New York's Ground Zero ceremony remains the anchor moment, but tributes stretch coast to coast, including the Tribute in Light above lower Manhattan. The NYPD's canine unit, whose founding members worked search and rescue operations at Ground Zero, are among those being recognized for their service in the immediate aftermath.
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