Enterprise software giant that acquired PeopleSoft in a hostile takeover, catalyzing Dave Duffield to found Workday.
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- ✋ Slowing it down
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“Approximately $18 billion in bank loans for an Oracle data center campus recently slid into stressed territory.”
Source→“Oracle, Nebius, and Dell also fell as concerns over tech-sector debt intensified.”
Source→“an increasingly far-reaching power broker whose influence now spans Oracle's risky AI infrastructure push, his son's Hollywood empire, the U.S. operations of TikTok, and relationships with Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Tony Blair.”
Source→“You match this across other documents, and then you push this back to SAP Oracle, like a very clear process.”
Source→“Oracle's acquisition of Cerner as earlier examples.”
“the massive spend, the CDSs at Oracle, some defaults on data centers”
Source→“decision to spend nearly $10 million on eight homes in a gated Florida community about 30 minutes from his $173 million oceanfront compound.”
Source→“There's a nearly $1 trillion gap between spending from the hyperscalers — Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle and SpaceX — and the revenue they've taken in from AI since 2024.”
“A nearly $1 trillion gap between spending from the hyperscalers — Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle and SpaceX — and the revenue they have taken in from AI since 2024.”
“Oracle's massive Project Jupiter data-center development in New Mexico is running into power, permitting, and financing problems, prompting the company to invoke a force majeure clause that could delay full rent payments for up to three years even as lenders face an estimated $1.8 billion paper loss on the project's debt.”
Source→“They gave agents four kinds of memory: working, semantic, episodic, and procedural. In their tests, agents scored almost 94% on LongMemEval and used a tenth of the tokens after 80 turns.”
Source→“I believe in Oracle's business model and ability to execute... a whole lot more than United States government”
Source→“Hyperscalers like Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle collectively invest nearly $800 billion this year, fueling a vast AI market projected to hit $52.8 trillion by 2035.”
Source→“Larry Ellison scrapped plans to sell up to $7.5b of Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) stock, just one day after Oracle disclosed the plans.”
“Larry Ellison — Referenced via Senra's framing about customers ignoring software that solves their exact problem”
Source→“Oracle went to market in the 1980s, Larry Ellison, with another technology taken from IBM... And they're like, you don't want to be locked into IBM. Relational database, you could run anywhere. Come with us. Because the reason this is a joke is because Oracle locks you in more than anyone.”
Source→“Nine major companies have roughly $3 trillion in mostly AI-related off-balance-sheet commitments, led by Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle”
Source→“That was it. They didn't give me any details... It was like 'Tonight we're having meat loaf, and, by the way, you're adopted.' In an instant, the narrative of life that stood beneath his feet was ripped away.”
Source→“"It was like 'Tonight we're having meat loaf, and, by the way, you're adopted.'"”
Source→“"In an instant, the narrative of life that stood beneath his feet was ripped away."”
Source→“After raising a combined $108 billion in all of 2025, these four companies [Oracle, Meta, Alphabet, Amazon] have, as of July 7, already raised $194 billion this year.”
Source→“Unsurprisingly, spreads are rising, and 86% of the bonds issued this year are already trading at higher yields than at issuance. Cover for recent issuance has fallen to less than 2x, from 5x in February.”
Source→“Oracle's AI triumph is more fragile than it seems. Co-founder Larry Ellison has pushed the company to lead in the AI race, but much of the efforts hinge on debt.”
Source→“Larry Ellison at Oracle is going for — I guess it'll be a half century soon.”
Source→“The New York Times examines Larry Ellison's debt-fueled effort to turn Oracle into an AI infrastructure giant – including its role in the $500 billion Stargate project”
“By the middle of June, the trackers had logged between 150,000 and 184,000 tech jobs cut in 2026, depending on whose methodology you trust... This year is running closer to a thousand cuts every working day, and the first quarter alone was the worst since early 2023. The reason given, again and again, is artificial intelligence.”
Source→“The Pentagon awarded Oracle a nearly $7 billion, up-to-10-year contract to consolidate software licenses across the military, Coast Guard, and intelligence community”
Source→“The five largest US hyperscalers Collectively committed $660B–$725B in capex for 2026, close to double 2025 levels — the primary drivers of the $10T infrastructure buildout.”
“Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle have amassed an estimated $1.65 trillion in off-balance-sheet AI commitments on top of roughly $1.35 trillion in recorded debt, as data-center leases and GPU and server contracts make their true financial exposure harder to assess.”
Source→“AI executives are increasing personal-security measures as backlash to the technology intensifies, with some traveling with armed guards, companies discouraging logo-wearing, Anthropic running round-the-clock security, and Palantir, Oracle, and Salesforce sharply increasing executive-protection spending.”
Source→“GitHub Copilot is failing, Microsoft Copilot is still crap... They were going to be the largest infrastructure company in the world by a factor of 2x... they're losing grasp on OpenAI, their internal model efforts are failing spectacularly... Azure is losing a lot of share to Oracle and CoreWeave and Google.”
Source→“Companies like CoreWeave and Oracle, because they're tapping capital markets, can raise way more than 20 to 30% CapEx.”
Source→“Larry Ellison at Oracle... went on a rant, a multi-year rant about how enterprise software was so stupid because everybody customized it... most enterprise people were like, A, you're just talking your book because your software only does 80% of what I need.”
Source→“We got CoreWeave and Crusoe and Nebius and Oracle and Microsoft and Amazon and Google and OpenAI to contribute to us compute... We've got over $50 million of hardware donated to us. Once we launched TPUs and Tranium, it would actually be over $100 million of hardware... Maybe about 15 different chip types, all running these benchmarks every single day on all the latest models.”
Source→“Oracle reduced its workforce in fiscal 2026 by 13% – or about 21,000 employees – as the cloud computing company restructured its business and adopted more AI across its operations.”
Source→“A major Trump donor who's helping to finance the WBD takeover. His Jewish identity and ties to Israeli President Netanyahu are cited by Paramount as a factor in opposition.”
“In 30 days, we went from not being an AI hyperscaler to being number four. And we passed a lot of companies, including Oracle. CoreWeave is a huge business.”
Source→“Five companies — Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle — have already raised $255.34 billion in 2026, more than double what was raised in all of 2025. By year-end, they plan to spend $750 billion on AI data centers.”
Source→“Oracle...has been on a borrowing binge to fund its AI ambitions, facing skepticism from Wall Street.”
Source→“Situational Awareness, an influential hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, has turned sharply bearish on the AI infrastructure trade with more than $1.5 billion in put options against Nvidia and multibillion-dollar bearish bets against semiconductor and AI infrastructure companies including Oracle, Broadcom, AMD, TSMC, and ASML.”
Source→“The pattern: pick an industry where Workday, SAP, or Oracle still rule, then automate the human layer sitting on top.”
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