Industry digest: 2 November 2026

A selection of the most notable news in industry. Each story links to the original article.

AWS installs an AI accelerator every 14 seconds and eyes $1 trillion annual revenue

The Register · 30 October 2026

Before long, we could be writing about a cloud company with a retail side hustle

Oracle wants to bill you for every AI task, not just every seat

The Register · 29 October 2026

Big Red says AI units will add to subscriptions, as it juggles $90BN-plus capex, mounting debt and a $225BN revenue goal for 2030

Built to bend: Postgres’s inventor and a steward on what AI really needs

The Register · 29 October 2026

PARTNER CONTENT: Michael Stonebraker and Bruce Momjian on why enterprise AI needs a database that no one controls, and what PostgreSQL 19 says about the road ahead

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