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Wind Farms Back, Palantir Soars, and Tech CEO Pushes Son to Code Amid Job Uncertainty

Tech Sector Sees Volatility Amid AI Boom and Energy Consolidation

The technology and energy sectors experienced a week of notable developments, ranging from court decisions impacting renewable energy projects to significant mergers and evolving job prospects in the age of artificial intelligence.

A U.S. court overturned an executive order from the Trump administration that had blocked permitting for offshore wind and some land-based projects, according to Hacker News. The court deemed the order "arbitrary and capricious," paving the way for the restart of offshore wind construction projects. The previous administration had also targeted five offshore wind projects already under construction, temporarily halting two of them.

Meanwhile, Palantir Technologies reported strong quarterly results, leading CEO Alex Karp to proclaim, "We are an n of 1 in the artificial intelligence software market," according to Fortune. The company's stock surged nearly 8% in late trading after the announcement. Karp described the results as "one of the truly iconic performances in the history of corporate performance or technology," emphasizing that Palantir's performance was "stellar, unusual, and sublime" for a company at its stage of development.

Oracle also made headlines, initially rising 2% after announcing plans to raise up to $50 billion in debt and equity during the 2026 calendar year to fund additional data center capacity for its cloud customers, Fortune reported. The market's initial reaction suggested confidence in Oracle's plan to address its roughly $100 billion debt load. However, the stock closed lower after the company reminded investors that the infrastructure would be used for the Nvidia-OpenAI deal.

In the energy sector, Devon Energy announced it would acquire Coterra Energy for nearly $26 billion in an all-stock merger, creating a domestic oil and gas juggernaut, Fortune reported. The combined entity will trail only Exxon Mobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips in production volumes. Analysts noted that dealmaking in the energy sector slowed down last year due to falling oil prices and tariffs, but is now making a comeback as crude oil prices stabilize. The merger creates the largest oil and gas producer in the western lobe of the Permian Basin, specifically the Delaware Basin in west Texas and south.

Amid the AI boom, concerns about the future of jobs in the tech industry have emerged. Yamini Rangan, the CEO of HubSpot, a $15 billion software company, admitted she doesn't know what jobs will look like in an AI-enabled future, even in as little as two years, Fortune reported. "As things evolve every decade, new jobs will emerge," Rangan said on the Silicon Valley Girl podcast. "You cant even plan for a job that will be there 10 years from now, or 20 years from now, or ev." This uncertainty comes as computer programming employment in the U.S. is at its lowest level since 1980, with companies increasingly automating tasks and some, like Anthropic, using AI for 100% of coding.

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