Microsoft unveils Supply Chain Center software in preview to help customers track supply chains by combining data from its own programs plus Oracle and others (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Oracle reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $11.4B; total cloud revenue was up 45% YoY to $3.6B, and health data provider Cerner, acquired in June, generated $1.4B  —  Oracle Corp.’s quarterly sales jumped 18%, buoyed by the software maker’s transition to cloud computing and the acquisition of health records provider Cerner.

Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
The SEC fines Oracle $23M for allegedly bribing officials in India, Turkey, and the UAE between 2016 and 2019, the second such fine after a 2012 settlement  —  – Oracle has settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission after it was charged with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act …

Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
A look at the promise and peril of generative AI, as Microsoft plans to develop GitHub Copilot for other job categories, like security and video game design  —  The most hyped words in tech today may be “generative AI.”  The term describes artificially intelligent technology that can generate art …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Ox Security, which helps companies improve software supply chain security, raised a $34M seed from Microsoft’s M12 and others, and says it has 30 customers  —  The rise in software supply chain attacks, like the SolarWinds hack, prompted last year’s executive order from the Biden Administration …

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
The Pentagon awards Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle a cloud-computing contract of up to $9B each through 2028 under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability  —  – Of the four companies receiving cloud-computing contracts from the Pentagon, all of them had received requests for bids from the U.S. federal agency last year.

Maggie Miller / Politico:
A look at Estonia’s efforts to aid cybersecurity workers in Ukraine and coordinate with European and US allies to defend against Russia’s cyberattacks  —  TALLINN, Estonia — Ukraine has surprised the world with its ability to fend off major cyberattacks from Russia.