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Larry Ellison has spent the past few days exactly where he likes to be: at the center of money, power, and controversy. The single biggest storyline is his deepening role in the future of social media and surveillance tech. Fortune reports that Oracle, the company Ellison co-founded and still dominates as executive chairman and CTO, has become a critical infrastructure partner in a massive multiyear cloud deal with OpenAI, worth an estimated 300 billion dollars in compute over about five years, a staggering bet that cements Ellison as one of the principal landlords of the AI era. Fortune also notes that Oracle is tied into the larger Stargate data center project with SoftBank and OpenAI, positioning Ellison as a core player in the physical backbone of next-generation artificial intelligence, a development with clear long-term biographical significance in the same league as his original Oracle database bet.
Layered on top of that, Common Dreams and NPR report that Oracle and an investor group including Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi based MGX have secured an 80.1 percent stake in the new U.S. TikTok entity, giving Ellison’s camp control over the algorithm and data environment for roughly 170 million American users. Under the deal, TikTok’s U.S. algorithm will be retrained on American data, with content rules set by the new investor controlled board. Politically, Ellison is again in the crosshairs: Common Dreams highlights criticism from Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is questioning whether Donald Trump’s administration orchestrated a backdoor deal for a billionaire takeover of a key media platform, linking this move to earlier scrutiny over the Paramount Skydance merger led by Ellison’s son David. That political heat will likely stick to Larry’s legacy, reinforcing his image as the Silicon Valley billionaire most comfortable operating inside raw power politics.
On the media front, industry reports summarized by IMDb’s news feed describe David and Larry Ellison as preparing a potential hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, directly challenging Netflix’s already announced multibillion dollar offer. While the bid remains in the realm of high level deal speculation rather than a finalized transaction, sources quoted in trade coverage say the Ellisons believe they can outbid Netflix with an all cash proposal and are furious over what they view as a rigged process favoring Paramount and Skydance. If this gambit advances, it would mark Larry Ellison’s most aggressive move yet into Hollywood, extending the family’s reach from Skydance into a full scale studio empire.
No major verified public appearances or personal social media posts from Ellison himself have broken through in the last twenty four hours, and recent chatter about his whereabouts appears speculative rather than confirmed. What is clear, from Fortune, NPR, and the Hollywood trades, is that Larry Ellison is currently trying to own the cloud that runs your AI, the app that powers your short videos, and possibly the studio that makes your movies and shows. For a man once obsessed with databases, it is an unmistakable late life pivot into controlling culture and attention.
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Dec 20 20254 mins