Oracle have laid off 30k employees today. They did it to personal email accounts at 6am 🫡 saying they needed the money to spend on GenAI instead. https://thenextweb.com/news/oracle-layoffs-march-2026

Oracle’s share price since they went GenAI nuts:

Oh hey, good policy! New Canadian Bill-C25 formally bans donations by cryptocurrency.

"Violators who knowingly accept crypto donations face fines reaching twice the value of the offending contribution. Corporations involved in these activities face an even stiffer penalty: an automatic $100,000 fine in addition to the double-value penalty."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/canada-moves-shut-crypto-election-161238948.html

#cdnpoli #crypto

Well there you go, a company is explicitly offering FLOSS licensing math-washing as a service:
https://malus[.]sh/

> Our proprietary AI robots independently recreate any open source project from scratch. The result? Legally distinct code with corporate-friendly licensing. No attribution. No copyleft. No problems.

Congratulations to anyone in the FLOSS community still supporting and promoting genAI "revolution".

#FLOSS #AI

Fighting back the male gaze by Yuko Shimizu

#Art

"Microsoft 365 has more than 450 million paid commercial seats. After roughly two years on the market, Copilot has converted approximately 15 million of them into paying users. That's a 3.3% conversion rate, at $30 per user per month, generating roughly $5.4 billion in annual revenue. That's less than what Microsoft spent on infrastructure in a single quarter (3)."

None of the numbers make economic sense.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/nadella-paid-650m-recruit-ai-170000361.html?guccounter=1

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