The Week of Oct. 26-30: What Happened, What Matters, What's Next
InformationWeek, Friday, October 30th, 2026
InformationWeek's Oct. 26-30 roundup: tech selloff, Oracle's AI chip partnerships, Palo Alto firewall exploits and Alibaba Cloud's Dutch region.
For Oct. 26-30, the roundup highlights four developments.
Tech stocks fell on Friday, putting the Nasdaq 100 on course for a loss of more than $1 trillion after disappointing Amazon and Intel earnings, with Amazon reporting a $42.4 billion trailing free cash flow deficit driven by AI infrastructure spending.
Oracle expanded its AI chip partnerships, Alibaba Cloud opened its first public cloud region in the Netherlands, and attackers exploited vulnerabilities in Palo Alto Networks firewalls to gain deep access.
It frames these as infrastructure spending coming under scrutiny while threats persist.