TNB Tech Minute: Oracle Plans to Raise Up to $50 Billion to Build Out AI Infrastructure
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I think the potential of Agenic is to rethink how work gets done overall. It challenges all sorts |
| 0:06.5 | of traditional orthodoxies around how organizations execute the work at hand. That's Jason Gersatus, |
| 0:12.6 | CEO of Deloitte U.S., talking about the transformational potential of A.Gentic AI. Join him later |
| 0:18.6 | to learn why agents are a game changer for businesses across industries. |
| 0:24.3 | Here's your morning, TNB Tech Minute, for Monday, February 2nd. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:31.0 | Oracle plans to raise between $45 billion this year to fund its AI infrastructure buildout. The cloud services giant said it |
| 0:40.0 | expects to raise the money through a combination of debt and equity. So it can meet demand. It's |
| 0:45.0 | already contracted from clients like Nvidia, Meta, TikTok, OpenAI, XAI, and AMD. Oracle stock |
| 0:52.1 | saw a 36% increase last September after it announced a strong quarter for |
| 0:56.8 | bookings. But investors have since started to question the sustainability of AI spending commitments |
| 1:02.5 | from tech giants and Oracle's capital-intensive business model that concentrates a large chunk of |
| 1:08.3 | future revenue on a few large customers. |
| 1:15.0 | Disney's streaming profits surged in the December quarter. |
| 1:20.4 | The entertainment giant said operating income for its Disney Plus and Hulu streaming services grew 72% from the same quarter a year ago to $450 million, well above Wall Street estimates. Meanwhile, Disney's non-streaming |
| 1:30.3 | entertainment operating income plummeted 55% last quarter to $650 million. Disney's board of |
| 1:37.4 | directors is expected to vote this week on who will succeed Bob Eiger as CEO. The company's next |
| 1:43.2 | CEO will be charged with continuing its shift |
| 1:45.8 | towards streaming while managing traditional TVs expected continued decline. And Bitcoin sold off |
| 1:52.9 | sharply over the weekend, as investors broadly shift away from risky assets such as tech stocks. |
| 1:58.7 | In overnight trading, Bitcoin hit around $74,500, its lowest |
| 2:04.3 | intraday level since April last year when President Trump's Liberation Day tariffs were shaking |
| 2:09.3 | markets. The digital token recently regained a little ground to trade at roughly $78,000. |
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