Top Stories — Wednesday, September 10, 2025
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- Oracle pops 22% on cloud growth projections even as earnings miss estimates — CNBC
- Apple's creator-centric iPhone 17 Pro will make the vlogging camera obsolete — TechCrunch
- Israel Orders Total Evacuation of Gaza City, Threatening Full Invasion — nyt News
Oracle pops 22% on cloud growth projections even as earnings miss estimates
Source: CNBC • Published: 9/10/2025, 2:04:53 AM
Oracle shares spiked 22% in extended trading on Tuesday after the database software maker indicated hefty growth prospects due to new cloud contracts, even as earnings and revenue missed estimates.
Here's how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus:
Revenue increased 12% from $13.3 billion a year earlier during the quarter, which ended on Aug. 31, according to a statement. Net income was about flat at $2.93 billion, or $1.01 per share, compared to $2.93 billion, or $1.03 per share, in the same quarter last year.
Oracle said its remaining performance obligation, a measure of contracted revenue that has not yet been recognized, now stands at $455 billion, up some 359% from a year earlier. During the quarter OpenAI said it signed an agreement with Oracle to develop 4.5 gigawatts of U.S. data center capacity.
Alongside larger cloud providers such as Microsoft, Oracle has been one of the big winners of the artificial intelligence boom, due to its cloud infrastructure business and its access to Nvidia's graphics processing units (GPUs) needed for large workloads. CEO Safra Catz said in the statement that the company signed four multibillion-dollar contracts with three different customers in the quarter.
Also in the quarter, Oracle said cloud rival Google's Gemini AI models would become available on Oracle's cloud infrastructure.
Oracle's generated $3.3 billion in revenue from cloud infrastructure, up 55% from a year earlier. The growth rate was 52% in the fiscal fourth quarter.
According to the statement, Oracle now sees $18 billion in cloud infrastructure revenue in the 2026 fiscal year, according to the statement. That suggests 75% growth from the $10.3 billion total in fiscal 2025. The company called for the sum to reach $32 billion, $73 billion, $114 billion and $144 billion in 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 fiscal years.
The shares hit a record last month and are up 45% in 2025 as of Tuesday's close, while the S&P 500 index has gained 11%.
A gain of 22% or better on Wednesday would represent the best day for the stock since the dot-com boom of 1999 and its third-sharpest rally ever. It would also lift the company's market cap past $800 billion.
Executives will discuss the results and issue guidance on a conference call starting at 5 p.m. ET.
This is developing news. Please check back for updates.
— CNBC's Ari Levy contributed to this report
Apple's creator-centric iPhone 17 Pro will make the vlogging camera obsolete
Source: TechCrunch • Published: 9/10/2025, 1:48:25 AM
The iPhone camera has long checked all the boxes for anything that a casual user might need, making a digital camera obsolete for most consumers. But for millions of content creators — an industry encompassing an estimated 200 million potential customers — it has remained necessary to buy handheld video cameras from companies like Canon, Sony, Panasonic, Nikon, and Fujifilm. Some of these camera brands have spun up entire product lines marketed as "vlogging cameras," featuring pop-out displays to record selfie videos, as well as compatibility with the common dimensions used for social media.
But the iPhone 17 Pro could finally be the device that makes content creators' other video cameras collect dust.
At a glance, a key difference here is that the new iPhone 17 Pro's camera sensor is 56% larger than the iPhone 16 Pro's. The size of a camera sensor impacts most aspects of a camera's performance, like low-light capabilities, depth of field, and resolution — so, basically, the specs are simply just better on the new device.
But under more scrutiny, the specs remain impressive for a pocketable camera that weighs half a pound. (It still clocks in a tad lighter than the Ricoh GR IIIx, a tiny camera I've been eyeing for everyday street photography.) The iPhone 17 Pro's main, ultra wide, and telephoto lenses are all 48MP fusion cameras, making optical zoom possible at 0.5x, 1x, 2x, 4x, and 8x. The telephoto lens is a huge improvement from the iPhone 16 Pro's 12 MP lens, while the selfie camera also improves from 12 MP to 18 MP.
"The wider field of view in higher resolution are particularly useful when recording yourself speaking directly to the camera, making our Pro models the absolute best choice for content creators," said Patrick Carroll, manager of iPhone camera architecture, during Apple's presentation.
But most important for creators is the phone's video capabilities — like the previous model, the iPhone 17 Pro supports 4K 120 fps video recording in Dolby Vision, but it's the new, creator-focused video features that come baked into the phone that make it stand apart.
Though also included in other iPhone 17 models, the dual front and back camera recording is bound to be a hit with creators. The whole product line also supports Center Stage mode on the front camera, which lets users capture both horizontal and vertical orientations without rotating the phone. These features will be better on the Pro, since it improves on the basic device's video capabilities with ultra-stabilized video at 4k 60 fps, which is a boon for creators on the go.
When it comes to editing and compatibility with professional film setups — something central to creators' workflow — the iPhone 17 Pro takes a big leap.
For creators who record videos or livestream in a home studio, the iPhone 17 Pro supports Genlock — a setup that allows multiple cameras to easily work together in sync — with an API available for developers to create custom filming setups.
In conjunction with the release of these new iPhones is Final Cut Camera 2.0, an upgrade to Apple's free app that makes more professional-level video editing possible on the device. With the updated app, creators can film in Apple's ProRes RAW format, which Apple says will speed up exports and make files smaller without sacrificing quality.
"The update also introduces open gate recording, which uses the full camera sensor to capture a wider field of view at resolutions greater than DCI 4K," Apple said in a press release. "This gives editors ultimate flexibility to reframe shots, stabilize footage, and set final aspect ratios, all without compromising image quality or performance."
It makes sense that iPhones have historically left a bit to be desired for professionals. The iPhone, unlike other cameras, has to do so much more than just take photos and video — Canon, for example, doesn't have to dedicate any of its hardware budget to GPUs that run complex AI models on-device.
But the bottom line is, the iPhone 17 Pro is a phone. For many creators, carrying one device in an iPhone, as opposed to a phone and a separate camera, is already appealing enough.
Amanda Silberling is a senior writer at TechCrunch covering the intersection of technology and culture. She has also written for publications like Polygon, MTV, the Kenyon Review, NPR, and Business Insider. She is the co-host of Wow If True, a podcast about internet culture, with science fiction author Isabel J. Kim. Prior to joining TechCrunch, she worked as a grassroots organizer, museum educator, and film festival coordinator. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and served as a Princeton in Asia Fellow in Laos.
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Israel Orders Total Evacuation of Gaza City, Threatening Full Invasion
Source: nyt News • Published: 9/10/2025, 1:47:09 AM
The Israeli military issued a sweeping evacuation order for Gaza City on Tuesday, signaling that it was moving ahead with its full-scale invasion of the largest city in northern Gaza.
The order will force hundreds of thousands of people to decide whether to risk staying in the city or to flee south to areas that are already overcrowded. Many of those areas are also in ruins.
Alaa Haddad, 29, a resident of Gaza City, said that he and his family were planning to stay in their home for now because they did not know where to go and they could not afford to pay the hundreds of dollars to transport their belongings.
"Where can we go?" he asked. "Even if there is a place, we don't want to be displaced again because it is degrading and humiliating."
For weeks, Israel has been preparing to take over Gaza City, intensifying its military offensive there and calling up an additional 60,000 reservists. Israeli officials say that Gaza City is one of the last remaining Hamas strongholds in Gaza.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has pushed for a wider offensive on Gaza City, even as senior Israeli security officials have expressed reservations about the plans. International aid agencies and some longstanding allies have also condemned them.
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