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Despite wildly different 2026 stock performances, analysts project Broadcom, Marvell, and Oracle could all deliver 50% gains in 2027. Broadcom’s AI revenue is set to double, Marvell’s growth is accelerating, and Oracle’s valuation is depressed despite massive cloud infrastructure expansion.
OpenAI’s annualized revenue has surged to nearly $70 billion, a sharp increase from the $40 billion reported in August. This growth is driven by enterprise subscriptions, the Codex coding tool, and a rapidly expanding advertising business. The milestone coincides with OpenAI’s DevDay conference in San Francisco. Meanwhile, rival Anthropic is preparing for a public listing, with its own run rate reaching $65 billion by July. Investors are watching Oracle and Microsoft as proxies for these private giants, as both companies have significant financial ties to the AI leaders.
The AI industry faces a severe financial squeeze as capital expenditures outpace revenue. Hyperscalers require $308 billion in annual AI revenue to break even on 2026-2027 spending, but currently generate only $183 billion, with 64% dependent on just two clients. Rising interest rates have made existing debt significantly more expensive, with Oracle and CoreWeave facing billions in additional interest costs. A new 'doom loop' links rising debt costs to hardware inflation, while a Brookings report warns the total AI build-out could reach $10.3 trillion by 2032, risking a financial collapse comparable to 2008.
Oracle sent a force majeure notice to Blue Owl Capital regarding its $18 billion New Mexico data center, Project Jupiter, to delay payments if the facility is not operational by 2028. The move, reported by Bloomberg and confirmed by CNBC, follows regulatory delays and local opposition. Oracle maintains the project is on schedule, but the notice highlights financial risks in AI infrastructure buildouts.
Oracle granted nearly $1 billion in stock options to co-founder Larry Ellison and new co-CEOs Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia in fiscal 2026, but all awards are now underwater due to a 53% stock decline. While cloud revenue surged 39% to $34 billion, heavy capital spending on AI data centers led to negative free cash flow and record debt insurance costs. New CFO Hilary Maxson fared better by choosing restricted stock units over options, whereas Ellison and the co-CEOs received cash bonuses despite their equity losses.
Oracle has invoked a force majeure clause to shield itself from financial liability regarding the stalled $18 billion Project Jupiter data center in New Mexico, a critical component of the Trump administration’s $500 billion Stargate AI initiative. The move, reported by Bloomberg, follows the failure to secure necessary development permits and a previous pivot to untested solid oxide fuel cells. Financial analysts view the notice as an attempt to avoid upcoming payments if the facility is not completed by 2028, signaling severe strain on the broader AI infrastructure megaproject.
Oracle shares fell over 3% after sending a 'force majeure' notice to Blue Owl Capital regarding its New Mexico data center, Project Jupiter. The move aims to delay payments if the facility does not come online by 2028. Despite the setback, Oracle reaffirms its commitment to the project and its 2.4 GW fuel cell deal with Bloom Energy, which also saw shares drop 3%.
Oracle shares fell 3.47% after the company sent a 'force majeure' notice to Blue Owl Capital regarding its New Mexico data center project, known as Project Jupiter. The move allows Oracle to delay payments if the facility does not come online by 2028, amid ongoing regulatory hurdles and local opposition. While Oracle maintains the project is on schedule, the notice highlights growing financial risks associated with massive AI infrastructure investments.
A leaked document shows Oracle laid off 546 employees in its America’s Cloud Infrastructure division—about 7.6% of that group—hitting software developers, program managers, and data-center staff, with older workers disproportionately affected. The cuts come as Oracle doubles down on expensive AI-focused data-center expansion, planning roughly $90-95 billion in new builds, after a broader 13% reduction in its fiscal 2026 workforce.
Top Wall Street analysts spotlight Oracle (ORCL), Rocket Lab (RKLB) and Meta Platforms (META) as enduring growth bets: Guggenheim sees Oracle as a decade stock with AI-enabled cloud upside and a $400 target; Raymond James’ Brian Gesuale assigns RKLB an $80 target, noting it will become cash-flow positive post-Iridium deal and benefit from backlog growth and margin expansion; J.P. Morgan’s Doug Anmuth upgrades META to Buy with a $820 target, highlighting frontier AI models, Muse and AI-enabled products as catalysts for multi-year growth.
Oracle’s latest round of layoffs comes with an internal FAQ detailing a severance plan capped at 26 weeks (four weeks’ base pay plus one week per year of service), cancellation of all unvested stock options and RSUs, forfeiture of future corporate bonuses, and an ending of the employee stock purchase plan at termination. Eligible staff may have three months to exercise vested options, with some exceptions, while accrued vacation is paid out and unused sick leave is not, depending on policy and law. Commissions and certain bonuses may still be payable only as defined by plans. The moves come amid Oracle’s debt-fueled push to expand AI infrastructure and extensive prior layoffs; the company emphasizes simplifying spending and prioritizing impact in its cost-cutting,”bot_challenge":false} } Wait format must be proper JSON. I added a mistake. Let's redo carefully.```) Correction: The first field title I created has a typo:
Oracle’s internal AI rollout lagged behind its external deployments, with co-CEO Clay Magouyrk acknowledging that last year the company hadn’t yet made generative AI broadly useful for employees. After rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex with guardrails and cost visibility, adoption reached about 80% in three months, boosting code generation but creating new bottlenecks in testing, validation, and release. Faster coding hasn’t translated into faster product delivery yet, and the company is balancing AI costs and governance, including security tooling with Anthropic Mythos (which flagged more vulnerabilities but produced many false positives).
OpenAI is reported to be seeking funding that could value the company at over $1.2 trillion, easing concerns for Oracle and CoreWeave which have large AI data-center and cloud contracts. With OpenAI signaling a slower path to an IPO due to safety concerns, a fresh round of funding could reassure partners and sustain AI spending, supporting the stocks of Oracle and CoreWeave amid recent volatility.
Oracle is increasing the expected cost of its fiscal 2026 restructuring by about $700 million to roughly $2.8 billion as it accelerates its AI-driven cloud expansion, with costs including severance and other exit expenses. The move follows Oracle’s report of more than $30 billion in new AI cloud contracts and a backlog of $664 billion, with about half expected to convert to revenue over the next 36 months. While the AI push could improve efficiency and long-term growth, near-term earnings and cash flow remain pressured, and the company plans to finance ongoing capital expenditure—potentially up to $40 billion through debt and equity—despite continued large cash burn.
Oracle's new CFO Hilary Maxson says 'doing more with less' isn’t the answer, urging simplification of processes and smarter allocation of resources to deliver better customer outcomes, as the company continues layoffs to fund AI and data-center expansion, maintains a hefty capex plan, and emphasizes growth amid financial discipline.