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Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs, SEC filing blames AI
Oracle's workforce dropped by roughly 21,000 employees to 141,000 as of May 2026, a 13% reduction. Unusually, the company's SEC filing explicitly attributes the cuts to AI adoption across its operations — a rare instance of a major tech firm stating in a regulatory document that AI is replacing workers rather than complementing them. The deepest cuts hit Oracle Health (formerly Cerner), with 8,000–10,000 jobs lost, while AI and cloud infrastructure teams were largely spared or grew. Oracle spent $55.7 billion on data centre capex in fiscal 2026, up 162%, resulting in negative free cash flow of $23.7 billion. Cloud Infrastructure revenue grew 93% to $5.8B in Q4, and remaining performance obligations jumped to $638 billion. The pattern mirrors moves by Meta, Microsoft, and others converting payroll into AI infrastructure spending, but Oracle's candour in its SEC filing sets it apart.
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