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There is a lot more to the Oracle layoffs than what meets the eye. Trump stood at the White House in January 2025 and said Stargate would create "100,000 American jobs almost immediately." Larry Ellison was standing next to him. This morning, Oracle -- not just a Stargate partner, but the primary builder and physical operator of every Stargate data center -- sent the first of 30,000 of its own workers a termination email at 6 a.m. No manager was looped in. System access was cut on delivery. The email was signed "Oracle Leadership." Here is the part worth sitting with: The 100,000 jobs Trump announced are construction workers. Concrete. Steel. Cooling systems. Temporary site labor across Texas, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Michigan. Real jobs, yes, but they end when the buildings are done. The 30,000 fired today are software engineers, cloud architects, SaaS operators, healthcare IT workers. The people who built the systems those data centers are being built to run. Permanent careers. Gone in a single email before sunrise. Oracle is not struggling. It posted $6.13 billion in profit last quarter. Up 95% year-over-year. It is cutting workers because it owes $248 billion in data center lease commitments that do not appear on its balance sheet. It is cutting workers because it committed to $50 billion in AI infrastructure spending this fiscal year alone. It is cutting workers because the $300 billion OpenAI contract it signed -- the one that made Ellison briefly the richest person on earth -- does not generate revenue until 2027. Bloomberg reported three weeks ago, citing internal Oracle sources, that the cuts targeted "roles the company expects AI to make redundant." The termination email said "broader organizational change." Oracle told 30,000 employees: organizational change. Oracle told Bloomberg: AI. Oracle told investors: the plan is working. Oracle told America: 100,000 jobs. All four are technically true. Oracle's stock was up 5% while the emails were still landing.

BREAKING: Rockstar North has spent over $2.1 BILLION on salaries and wages since 2019, an official UK government document reveals. GTA 6 is set to be even more expensive than previously thought, it will likely cost over $3 billion in total.

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BREAKING: The once-iconic Need for Speed racing franchise appears to have been indefinitely shelved by Electronic Arts. This decision is underscored by the reassignment of developer Criterion Games, who created the latest entry, NFS Unbound, to focus entirely on the Battlefield series. The apparent commercial underperformance of Unbound, combined with the subsequent shutdown of the EA-funded car culture site Speedhunters, points to a complete halt in future development. Although EA has not officially declared the series canceled, these major internal shifts strongly suggest a long-term hiatus for the venerable racing brand. Given the franchise’s history and popularity, is this the final pit stop for Need for Speed, or could it make a comeback with a different developer someday? Drop me your thoughts below!