November 2025
Article: Oracle is already underwater on its ‘astonishing’ $300bn OpenAI deal (Financial Times)
“Since September 10, when Oracle announced a $300bn deal with the chatbot maker, its stock has shed $315bn* in market value”
October 2025
Post: Oracle stock extends its decline to -6% on the day on reports that the company lost $100 million from rentals of Nvidia chips in the most recent quarter. (@tradersclub.bsky.social)
Article: OpenAI, Oracle and Vantage Data Centers Announce Stargate Data Center Site in Wisconsin (businesswire.com)
Media: Who is Larry Ellison, the billionaire Trump friend who’s part of the TikTok takeover? (npr.org)
Article: Could Barron Trump Get Seat on TikTok Board? What We Know (newsweek.com)
Article: TikTok Investor Worried About “Love and Respect for Israel” in U.S. (newrepublic.com)
“While sources say that Catz will be “nowhere near the algorithm of TikTok,” her past actions and emails paint a very clear agenda.”
September 2025
Article: Oracle’s new Gen X and Millennial CEOs get stock options worth $350 million—but they’ll have to keep the stock soaring to collect (fortune.com)
Article: Product changes likely as Oracle faces an estimated 10,000 more layoffs by year end (cio.com)
Article: TikTok deal to include new investors with ByteDance; Oracle to keep cloud agreement, sources say (cnbc.com)
“Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen to control TikTok in the US”
Article: Oracle and OpenAI Are Full Of Crap (wheresyoured.at)
Article: Paramount Skydance Prepares Ellison-Backed Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery (wsj.com)
Article: Larry Ellison briefly eclipses Elon Musk as world’s richest person, billionaires index says (nbcnews.com)
August 2025
Article: Palantir’s tools pose an invisible danger we are just beginning to comprehend (theguardian.com)
“Weaponized AI surveillance platforms threaten human rights around the world. Here’s how they work” – it’s important to highlight Palantir’s partnership with Oracle, and the September 2024 article in which Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ (businessinsider.com)
Article: Is Oracle facing headwinds? After layoffs, its 4-decade veteran Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson departs (indiatimes.com)
Announcement: Oracle to Offer Google’s Gemini Models to Customers, Accelerating Enterprises’ Agentic AI Journeys (oracle.com)
Article: Significant layoffs at Oracle, job cuts impact US and India OCI teams (datacenterdyamics.com)
“OCI laid off several hundred workers last November, with thousands more let go across Oracle more broadly this March. The company is simultaneously aggressively hiring for its AI data center expansion, which is core to OpenAI’s Stargate effort. Earlier this year, OpenAI signed a $30bn-a-year deal with Oracle.”
Article: Oracle cuts staff amid AI spending (linkedin.com)
Article: Oracle Cuts Cloud Division Jobs Amid Surge in AI Spending (bloomberg.com)
Article: xAI’s Grok models now available on Oracle Cloud infrastructure (gulfbusiness.com)
“The announcement strengthens Oracle’s AI ecosystem and expands xAI’s reach into enterprise applications through a secure, scalable platform”
Article: Oracle Gives U.S. Government Discount on Cloud and Software (wsj.com)
July 2025
Blog Post: Tech elites are turning AI into ChatGPTrump (publicnotice.co)
“All that’s asked of the AI companies themselves is to make sure their large language models (LLMs) promote a Trump-friendly view of the world.“
Article: Larry Ellison Just Quietly Became the Most Powerful Man in America (slate.com)
Article: Trump, FCC want to reshape the media landscape starting with CBS (reuters.com)
“The new owners of CBS came in and said, ‘It’s time for a change. We’re going to reorient it towards getting rid of bias,” Carr said. “At the end of the day that’s what made the difference for us. Carr’s comments suggest the FCC will ramp up efforts to rid mainstream media of what he and President Trump consider a deep and enduring liberal bias, creating an opening for more conservative views among the biggest media companies.”
Video: FCC Approves Skydance Merger with CBS, Paramount (newsmax)
Trump’s FCC chair Brendan Carr says CBS News 60 Minutes will now have a “bias monitor that reports directly to Trump” as a condition of the Paramount/Skydance merger
Article: Oracle CEO Safra Catz Declares: “We Stand With Israel” (vinnews.com)
Safra Catz said during an employee townhall in 2021 that an Oracle employee who is not satisfied with the company’s partnership with Israel has no place in the company.
April 2025
Article: Oracle’s masterclass in breach comms: Deny, deflect, repeat (theregister.com)
Article: How Trump Could Make Larry Ellison the Next Media Mogul (nytimes.com)
March 2025
Article: Oracle, Leidos stocks fall as Pentagon cancels software plan (investing.com)
Article: Fend for Yourself: Under Trump, Consumer Protection Bureau’s Probes of Big Tech and Finance Firms Freeze Up (propublica.org)
Article: Oracle is reportedly the latest tech giant to be impacted by DOGE cuts (fortune.com)
Article: Oracle has reportedly suffered 2 separate breaches exposing thousands of customers‘ PII (arstechnica.com)
Article: Oracle shares turn lower as quarterly revenue miss overshadows cloud deals (marketwatch.com)
February 2025
Article: Larry Ellison wants the U.S. to ‘unify all the national data’ and then feed it to AI (forbes.com)
Article: Larry Ellison wants to put all America’s data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study (theregister.com)
January 2025
Article: DeepSeek Billionaire Rout: Nvidia’s Huang And Oracle’s Ellison Lose Combined $48 Billion (forbes.com)
Article: EXCLUSIVE: White House in talks to have Oracle and U.S. investors take over TikTok (npr.org)
Article: Trump says he’s open to TikTok sale to Elon Musk or Larry Ellison (cnbc.com)
Article: DOL Halts Action on Federal Contractor Discrimination Cases (bloomberglaw.com)
…Some of the agency’s previous high-profile discrimination cases included disputes with Oracle America Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. Oracle ultimately defeated the OFCCP’s claims in an administrative court.
Article: Trump announces partnership that will invest $500 billion in AI infrastructure (apnews.com)
Trump is announcing a new partnership that has committed to investing at least $500 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure on his first full day in office. Trump has been joined by Masayoshi Son of SoftBank, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Larry Ellison of Oracle at the White House. He says their new entity, Stargate, will make a “tremendous investment” in what he says will be the “largest AI infrastructure project, by far, in history.” He’s calling it “a resounding declaration of confidence in America’s potential” since he won. While Trump has used similar announcements to show that his presidency is boosting the economy, there were already expectations of a massive buildout in data centers and electricity plants needed for the development of AI.
Article: He’s emboldened, he’s organized and he’s still Trump: Takeaways from the president’s opening days (wiproud.com)
Trump had the world’s wealthiest men behind him on the dais when he took the oath of office on Monday. Tesla’s Elon Musk, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and LVMH’s Bernard Arnault were all there. SoftBank billionaire Masayoshi Son was in the audience. Later in the week, Oracle’s Larry Ellison and OpenAI’s Sam Altman appeared with Son at the White House to announce an artificial intelligence investment of up to $500 billion.
Article: Oracle, Apple, Google diverge on whether to keep serving TikTok (spokesman.com)
Apple Inc. and Oracle Corp. have reacted differently to President Donald Trump’s pledge that the U.S. government won’t enforce a national security law that raised potential penalties for U.S. partners of the popular video app TikTok.
Oracle, which provides cloud services for TikTok, took Trump’s go-ahead to heart. It’s kept TikTok operational since the app briefly went offline over the weekend. Apple and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, however, which removed the app from their respective app stores to comply with the Jan. 19 ban, have held off on relisting TikTok. The app has been unavailable for the past five days.
December 2024
Article: Trump Taps Truth Social CEO To Lead Intelligence Advisory Board (barrons.com)
US President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday named loyalist Devin Nunes, who heads his social media platform Truth Social, to serve as chairman of a White House intelligence advisory board.
November 2024
Article: Oracle CEO: “If we continue on our current trajectory, reaching a valuation of a trillion dollars is inevitable” (calcalistech.com)
CEO Safra Catz reveals in an interview how the company’s aggressive investments and strategic expansions are poised to accelerate its financial ascent and why she’s convinced Israel will be flooded with investments after the war.
September 2024
Article: Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ (businessinsider.com)
“Skydance—the company that just bribed Trump for the Paramount merger—is owned by David Ellison. David Ellison is the son of Larry Ellison, the second richest person in the world and founder of Oracle. Larry Ellison is part of the anti-democracy, surveillance state camp with Peter Thiel & Palantir.”
August 2024
Article: Why is Oracle assembling a secret database of Trump loyalists? (sfchronicle.com)
…Oracle’s public-facing financial disclosures, its exhaustive customer index and searchable media releases do not mention its purported contract to build a secretive personnel database of politicos willing to implement Project 2025, a radically conservative agenda designed for a second Donald Trump term.
Article: The Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans (propublica.org)
July 2024
Article: HorrOracle: The Tech Giant Embedded in Our NHS (corporatewatch.org)
The company’s software and systems are used for biased facial recognition technology and the invasive surveillance of workers. It also trades in detailed portfolios of people’s personal data without their consent.
April 2024
Article: Billionaire Larry Ellison is moving Oracle headquarters from Austin to Nashville (dallasnews.com)
The Austin HQ was short-lived, lasting only from December 2020 to April 2024 before Oracle scuttled plans for leading the organization out of Texas.
January 2024
Article: During war visit, Oracle CEO affirms commitment to open second data center in Israel (timesofisrael.com)
Article: Oracle Taps Former Trump Official Seema Verma to Lead Cerner Business (finance.yahoo.com)
December 2023
Article: Tech companies like Google and Meta made cuts to DEI programs in 2023 after big promises in prior years (cnbc.com)
December 2022
Article: Pentagon splits $9 billion cloud contract among 4 companies (apnews.com)
October 2022
Article: Tech Billionaire Larry Ellison’s Record Political Giving Funds Election Deniers In Midterms (forbes.com)
May 2022
Article: Oracle founder Larry Ellison joined call about contesting Trump’s election loss
Article: ‘This is false!’ Elon Musk denies claim by boss of Donald Trump’s Truth Social network that he was ‘quietly encouraged’ to buy Twitter by former president (dailymail.uk)
In a filing on Thursday, Musk said his friend the Oracle Corp co-founder Larry Ellison’s trust will invest $1 billion towards the $44 billion buyout.
July 2021
Article: From Amazon to Big Ass Fans, these 31 corporations have hired former Trump administration officials (businessinsider.com)
Oracle: Hired Josh Pitcock, former chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence, as vice president of government affairs.
January 2021
Article: Oracle employees say Safra Catz and Larry Ellison don’t talk about their Trump ties internally. After the US Capitol siege, some want action: There’s ‘blood on their hands’ (businessinsider.com)
Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison and CEO Safra Catz, two of Trump’s biggest supporters in the tech industry, have been silent since Wednesday’s siege of the US Capitol.
December 2020
Article: Oracle relocates Redwood City headquarters to Austin, Texas (ktvu.com)
November 2020
Article: Here’s Where Top Women CEOs Are Putting Their Political Dollars (msmagazine.com)
With large contributions to Trump, Oracle CEO Safra Catz is an outlier when it comes to political giving among female S&P 500 CEOs
Article: Oracle finally releases detailed diversity numbers, and they aren’t great (marketwatch.com)
After years of battling the release of detailed information about employee demographics, Oracle Corp. has joined other Silicon Valley tech giants in being more transparent about numbers that show a largely white and male workforce. For the first time, the company published diversity figures that included numbers of new hires by race/ethnicity and gender, as well as its EEO-1 report breaking down workforce and leadership demographics, which companies are required to file with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
October 2020
Article: Oracle founder donated $250,000 to Graham PAC in final days of TikTok deal (theverge.com)
September 2020
Article: How Oracle Became the Trump Administration’s Favorite Tech Company (slate.com)
Article: Trump’s TikTok showdown is poised to reward his Silicon Valley political allies (cnn.com)
Article: Trump says he gives Oracle-TikTok deal his ‘blessing’ (seekingalpha.com)
August 2020
Article: Trump administration reportedly offers Oracle cheap end to $400m wage discrimination case (theregister.com)
July 2020
Article: The most liberal and conservative tech companies, ranked by employees’ political donations (cnbc.com)
Oracle employees showed the biggest swing to the left among big tech companies. Larry Ellison, Oracle’s co-founder and chairman, is a Trump supporter, and CEO Safra Catz was on his presidential transition team in 2016. Four years ago, just over half of employee money went to Republicans, and just under half in 2018. But employees are now favoring Democrats in a big way. Sanders, Warren and Biden are the leading recipients of money from Oracle employees, and McGrath leads among Senate candidates.
March 2020
Article: Unions move to defend anti-bias agency from Oracle’s legal challenge (reuters.com)
The Communication Workers of America and United Steelworkers unions on Wednesday moved to intervene in Oracle America Inc’s lawsuit claiming the U.S. Department of Labor lacks the power to prosecute discrimination cases against government contractors.
February 2020
Article: Larry Ellison is doing an unthinkable thing for a tech titan: Hosting a fundraiser for Donald Trump (vox.com)
Article: Some Oracle employees plan to walk off the job to protest Larry Ellison’s Trump fundraiser (vox.com)
Oracle activists are calling the Thursday plan: “No Ethics / No Work.”
Article: Larry Ellison joins Peter Thiel in Trump’s camp (latimes.com)
June 2000
Article: Oracle Hired a Detective Agency To Investigate Microsoft’s Allies (nytimes.com)
July 2019
Article: Oracle-created document claiming AWS conspiracy over JEDI reaches Trump’s desk (datacenterdynamics.com)
A document written by Oracle lobbyists claiming a vast conspiracy by Amazon and the DoD to award AWS the $10bn JEDI cloud contract reached President Donald Trump’s desk.
January 2019
Article: H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of U.S. colleges over American grads, feds allege (mecurynews.com)
Article: Feds Also Say That Oracle Underpaid Women and Minorities (wired.com)
November 2018
Article: Nunes appoints Safra Catz to Artificial Intelligence Commission (intelligence.house.gov)
April 2018
Article: Trump reportedly ordered the Justice Department to hire a controversial aide previously ousted from the White House (businessinsider.com)
Cohen-Watnick drew public scrutiny when it was revealed last year that he briefed Rep. Devin Nunes on classified intelligence concerning the Obama administration’s incidental surveillance of Trump transition officials.
March 2018
Article: Is Devin Nunes just dangerous, or is he dirty? (jacksonsun.com)
February 2018
Article: The Silicon Valley Giant Bankrolling Devin Nunes (thedailybeast.com)
October 2017
Article: Oracle executive denounces Trump immigration policies (foxbusiness.com)
Oracle Corp Co-Chief Executive Mark Hurd on Monday said he does not understand Trump administration immigration policies that make it difficult for foreigners to work in the United States after earning an education here.
September 2017
Article: Ousted NSC Official Takes Job at Oracle (justsecurity.org)
Ezra Cohen-Watnick, who was fired from the National Security Council in August, has landed a new job at the Washington, D.C. office of Oracle, the Silicon Valley software giant, according to two sources with knowledge of his move.
August 2017
Reddit Megathread: Trump Ends CEO Advisory Council (reddit.com)
February 2017
Article: Oracle employees start petition urging company to oppose travel ban (usatoday.com)
January 2017
Article: OFCCP Sues Tech Giant Oracle Alleging Discrimination in Compensation and Hiring Practices and Failure to Produce Requested Records and Data (workforcebulletin.com)
December 2016
Article: Oracle CEO Safra Catz Joins Trump’s Executive Committee (wccftech.com)