[ad_1] September was life-changing for 81-year-old billionaire entrepreneur Larry Ellison and his family. After announcing that his flagship database software company, Oracle, had a backlog of orders amounting to nearly $100 billion on red-hot demand for artificial intelligence, as well as announcing several other multi-billion-dollar contracts with companies including OpenAI, …

[ad_1] Firefly Aerospace on Sunday said it had agreed to buy defense analytics firm SciTec for about $855 million in cash and stock, paving the path to its goal of becoming a significant player in the national security market. Firefly will pay around $300 million in cash and $555 million …

[ad_1] A stop sign is seen in front of the US Capitol — where talks to repoen the federal government have seen little progress. Photo: Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP/FileSource: AFP The US government shutdown entered its second week on Monday, with no sign of a deal between President Donald Trump’s …