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Oracle Pauses Long-Term Release Update (LTRU) Program. What This Means for Your 19c Patching Strategy If you’ve been relying on Oracle’s Long-Term Release Update (LTRU) program to ease the patching burden on your Oracle 19c environments, it’s time to pay close attention. As of May 1, 2026, Oracle has officially paused the LTRU program, and the implications for

Oracle Sounds the Alarm: The AI-Driven Vulnerability Era Has Arrived On July 14, 2026, Oracle’s Database security team published what may be the most urgent patching advisory in the company’s history. The message is unambiguous: prepare to deploy the July 21, 2026 Release Update immediately upon availability – no delays, no exceptions, across your entire database estate. The

AWS Brings Oracle’s AI-Native Database to Its Fully Managed RDS Platform — Complete with Foundation Model Access In a move that bridges the gap between enterprise database management and generative AI, AWS announced on July 7, 2026, that Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Database 26ai — Oracle’s latest Long Term Support Release. But the headline feature

Oracle Brings Its Most Automated Database Service to AWS and No Exadata Required On June 17, 2026, Oracle crossed a significant threshold in its multicloud journey: Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless (ADB-S) is now generally available as part of Oracle AI Database@AWS. For the first time, customers can provision a fully self-managing Oracle AI Database directly from the

Oracle Data Science Agent Reaches General Availability: Conversational Machine Learning Comes to Autonomous AI Database 26ai Oracle has reached an important milestone for its AI and database platform. On June 23, 2026, the Oracle Data Science Agent became Generally Available for Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless 26ai, bringing a conversational machine learning assistant directly into the database. No

Oracle Proves True Cache Can Slash LLM Costs and Latency with Semantic Caching on AI Database 26ai If you’ve been building AI-powered applications on Oracle and wondering how to tame the cost and latency of large language model (LLM) API calls, Oracle just gave you a compelling answer — and it doesn’t involve Redis, Memcached, or a custom

Oracle Deep Data Security: Identity-Aware Data Access Control for the Agentic AI Era As enterprises race to deploy autonomous AI agents across their data estates, a critical question has emerged: who is actually authorized to see the data these agents retrieve? Oracle’s answer arrives in the form of Oracle Deep Data Security — a new database-native authorization framework

Oracle Delivers a Major Upgrade to Its No-Code Agentic AI Platform, Signaling That Enterprise AI Agents Have Moved Beyond the Demo Stage For years, the promise of AI agents in the enterprise has been tantalizing but frustratingly incomplete. Demos looked impressive. Production deployments? Not so much. With the release of Oracle AI Database Private Agent Factory 26.4 on

Oracle Database 26ai Arrives with Over 200 New Features and a Bold AI-Native Vision Oracle has officially announced the general availability of Oracle Database 26ai, marking the next major leap forward from Oracle Database 23ai and cementing the company’s strategic vision of making artificial intelligence an inseparable core function of the database engine. With over 200 new features