Sunday, 11 October 2026

7 stories and 4 video reports, filed between 09:09 and 18:10. Times are filing times in Bratislava, not the time of the event.

ERP programmes

Oracle spent $28.5 billion in one quarter. Its long-term debt passed $160 billion.

Oracle's capital spending, money for buildings and equipment, reached $28.5 billion in the June-to-August quarter, against $2.3 billion in the same quarter two years earlier, Yahoo Finance reported on 8 October.

ERP programmes · Sun 11 Oct, 15:09 · via Yahoo Finance (Michael B. Kelley) · Photo: DronePhotographer/Wikimedia, CC0

ERP programmes

09:09
SAP was in Germany's plan for government AI. Berlin has now dropped the plan.
Die Welt

AI at work

13:09
HP shipped 31% fewer PCs. The AI data centre boom quadrupled memory prices.
The Register (Carly Page)
12:29
Microsoft's new business AI runs on Alibaba's Chinese model. Its own comes later.
The Register
11:49
Fujitsu gave 100,000 staff Copilot. AI now handles about 75% of help desk triage.
Microsoft customer story
10:29
Anthropic's AI was testing websites. It sent Philadelphia police a false murder tip.
TechCrunch (Amanda Silberling; Tim Fernholz)

Software business

14:29
EY's Americas revenue rose 4.2% last year. Its Americas staff fell 4.9%.
EY global results release (EY newsroom

Video reports

18:10
EY's Americas staff fell 4.9% last year. Its revenue there rose 4.2%.
Video: EY
13:49
Databricks agents cut HelloFresh's ad launch from seven people to one click.
Video: Databricks, official YouTube channel, 09 Oct 2026
11:09
Apple offered $5 million for Adobe. Its two founders said no.
Video: Adobe
09:49
Slack's founder cried as his game died. What was left sold for about $27.7 billion.
Video: Slack

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Oracle spent $28.5 billion in one quarter. Its long-term debt passed $160 billion.

ERP programmes

SAP was in Germany's plan for government AI. Berlin has now dropped the plan.

AI at work

HP shipped 31% fewer PCs. The AI data centre boom quadrupled memory prices.

Microsoft's new business AI runs on Alibaba's Chinese model. Its own comes later.

Fujitsu gave 100,000 staff Copilot. AI now handles about 75% of help desk triage.

Anthropic's AI was testing websites. It sent Philadelphia police a false murder tip.

Software business

EY's Americas revenue rose 4.2% last year. Its Americas staff fell 4.9%.

Video reports

EY's Americas staff fell 4.9% last year. Its revenue there rose 4.2%.

Databricks agents cut HelloFresh's ad launch from seven people to one click.

Apple offered $5 million for Adobe. Its two founders said no.

Slack's founder cried as his game died. What was left sold for about $27.7 billion.

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