Why Circular AI Deals Among OpenAI, Nvidia, AMD Are Raising Eyebrows

Re:Why Circular AI Deals Among OpenAI, Nvidia, AMD Are Raisi... by liendolucas on Thursday October 09, 2025 @05:08AM (#45525264)

So it's free... Until is not. My take on this would be that if Oracle makes any change to that "free" tier and you do not take proper action you might be automatically charged hefty amounts from your credit card. No, thanks. It's way way safer to spend few bucks a month in other VPS options than get a big surprise on your credit card.

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Re:Why Circular AI Deals Among OpenAI, Nvidia, AMD Are Raisi... by pjc50 on Thursday October 09, 2025 @08:12AM (#45526538)

I know Oracle are notorious for scummy license enforcement, but in practice their Always Free tier is superior to Amazon's precisely because they will cut off your service rather than bill you arbitrary (huge) amounts.

The big limitation is the 10mbit egress bandwidth, but you can work around that with (free) Cloudflare.

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Re:Why Circular AI Deals Among OpenAI, Nvidia, AMD Are Raisi... by Eliezer on Thursday October 09, 2025 @07:01AM (#45525985)

Privacy.com has always been a working general solution to this, for me. Disposable CC aliases with spending caps.

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Re:Why Circular AI Deals Among OpenAI, Nvidia, AMD Are Raisi... by overfeed on Thursday October 09, 2025 @01:18PM (#45530517)

Privacy.com won't provide lawyers to you when Oracle sends letters of demand to you for unpaid invoices.

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