A TradingView snapshot shows the US 10-year government Bond yield The annual return a bond pays at today's price; rising yields mean borrowing is getting dearer. (US10Y) at 5.183%.
That is up 1.046 points, or 25.28%, over the past year.
The one-year line trends upward and finishes at its high point on the chart.
5.183%
US 10-year government bond yield (US10Y)
+1.046
Change over the past year, which the chart labels +25.28%
Why it matters The source is a price snapshot only and gives no explanation or forecast. It sits alongside today's other stories, which are about debt-funded AI build-outs: the FT reports $18bn of construction debt on Oracle's Project Jupiter, and Business Insider says Oracle has racked up tens of billions of dollars in debt.
Watch next Whether the yield holds above the 5 line marked on the chart. The source makes no prediction.
Oracle has issued a force majeure notice on power supply to the project developer, a unit of Blue Owl Capital, after permitting delays amid rising local opposition, according to people cited by the FT.
Under the contract, Oracle must still pay a carry cost in lieu of rent for up to three years if the project misses its first-phase deadline.
Construction is under way on the 1,400-acre campus in Doña Ana County; the FT says Bloomberg first reported the notice.
$300bn
Oracle's contract to provide computing power to OpenAI; Jupiter is at its centre
$18bn
Construction debt from a consortium of more than 20 banks
Up to 3 yrs
Oracle's liability for a "carry cost" in lieu of rent if the site isn't ready
H1 2027
Deadline for the first phase to start operating
Why it matters Jupiter is the keystone of Oracle's plan to become an AI data centre player. The fee Oracle must pay would cover debt holders' interest in full plus a certain equity return for Blue Owl funds. The banks — led by BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, MUFG and SMBC — saw efforts to offload the debt to a broader group of institutional investors stall amid concerns over Oracle's creditworthiness, and the loans have been quoted at under 90 cents on the dollar. The four-year debt is priced at 2.5 percentage points over SOFR, with an optional two-year extension.
Watch next A second person told the FT there is disagreement over whether force majeure can be triggered before a scheduled completion date. Oracle said the notices do not establish a delay and that Project Jupiter "remains on our planned schedule." A Blue Owl spokesperson said the notice does not change the financial commitments.
Business Insider obtained a document listing the job titles and ages of 546 employees laid off from Oracle's America Cloud Infrastructure organisation.
Software developer III was the hardest-hit title, followed by program manager IV and principal core infrastructure engineer; developers made up around 17% of cuts.
41 roles came from data center support services, including that division's vice president; Oracle said the document was provided to comply with federal age discrimination laws.
57
Software developer III, the hardest-hit title
128
Roles containing "manager", around 23% of cuts
~16%
Of those affected were 60 or over; most were over 40
~$2.8bn
2026 Restructuring Plan after a ~$700M top-up (Final Round AI)
Why it matters The cuts land in the unit whose quarterly revenue Oracle reported up 121% year over year, as the company expects to spend $90–$95 billion this year on new data centers (Business Insider). Final Round AI reports that Oracle's September 11 SEC filing raised its restructuring plan by about $700 million to roughly $2.8 billion, primarily employee severance, and names adoption of AI technologies among the plan's aims. Both sources say Oracle's workforce fell by 21,000, or 13%, in fiscal 2026, to about 141,000.
Watch next Oracle has not said how many people it laid off in total, and Business Insider could not determine whether the document lists everyone. Final Round AI reports WARN filings covering 359 Washington and 441 California roles, effective November 13, 2026, and cites a TD Cowen estimate of a further 20,000–30,000 cuts that Oracle has not confirmed.
Google says Project Suncatcher is scheduled for its first orbital test, with the first TPUs going into orbit next week.
A prototype satellite built with partner Planet will fly on SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare.
The test will evaluate how Google's Tensor Processing Units perform in space.
Up to 8×
More solar power in low Earth orbit than on Earth, per Google
2027
Next milestone: two satellites to test laser links
Up to 10 g
Launch loads; individual chips can see 50–100 g
5 years
Trillium TPUs survived a radiation dose greater than a five-year mission's (initial results)
Why it matters Suncatcher is a long-term research moonshot exploring whether space could one day host scalable machine-learning infrastructure. Ground tests included shaking the satellite on three axes and running AI workloads in a proton beam at UC Davis's Crocker Nuclear Laboratory. Cooling is a key open problem: in a vacuum there is no airflow, so heat can only be shed through radiators.
Watch next How the new TPU cooling system performs in orbit, and the 2027 test of high-bandwidth, short-range laser links between two satellites.