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The #WarnerBrosDiscovery board last week rebuffed Paramount’s latest $108 billion bid to acquire the company, sticking with its deal to sell a large portion of its business to #Netflix for $83 billion. #Paramount on Monday said it would nominate directors who would “exercise WBD’s right under the Netflix Agreement to engage on Paramount’s offer & enter into a transaction with Paramount.”
#WBD #Billionaires #DavidEllison #LarryEllison #Oracle #RightWing #media #antitrust #law
#Paramount files lawsuit against #WarnerBrosDiscovery & threatens a #proxy fight in its latest attempt to acquire the entertainment company
#WBD #Billionaires #DavidEllison #LarryEllison #Oracle #RightWing #media #antitrust #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/business/media/paramount-warner-bros-discovery-board-fight.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Then there’s the whole southern plantation / Scottish Highlands crofting chimera that #LarryEllison has going on with #Oracle in Lānaʻi, Hawaii.
#LarryEllison was also accused of conspiring to ethnically cleanse #Palestinians from #Israel-occupied territories, committing #WarCrimes, & funding #genocide. Though the lawsuit was dismissed.
#billionaires #Plutocracy #money #power #media #StateMedia #FreePress #censorship #antitrust #WarnerBrosDiscovery #WBD #Paramount #Oracle #law
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/palestinians-lawsuit-in-us-vs-adelson-others-is-revived-idUSKCN1Q826S/
Just a reminder — #LarryEllison participated in #Trump’s #coup attempt.
Larry Ellison, #billionaire co-founder & chairman of the software company #Oracle & the biggest backer of #ElonMusk’s #Twitter takeover, participated in a call shortly after the #2020election that focused on strategies for contesting the “legitimacy” of the vote, acc/to court documents & a participant.
#law #billionaires #ElectionInterference #media #StateMedia #FreePress #censorship #antitrust
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/20/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-election-challenges/
To counteract that critique, #Paramount said #Oracle founder #LarryEllison – the father of Paramount CEO #DavidEllison – will guarantee all $40.4 billion of the equity he’s putting up to finance the $78 billion deal. That’s a big guarantee, putting Larry Ellison on the hook for about a sixth of his roughly $250 billion net worth if something falls through.
#billionaires #media #StateMedia #FreePress #censorship #antitrust #WarnerBrosDiscovery #WBD #Netflix #law
After signing deals to buy hundreds of billions of dollars in computing power from the chipmakers #Nvidia & #AMD & the #cloud #computing company #Oracle, #OpenAI has reached a multibillion-dollar agreement with #Amazon.
OpenAI said on Monday that it had agreed to purchase $38 billion in cloud computing services from Amazon over the next 7 years. The additional computing power will help OpenAI build & deploy its #ArtificialIntelligence technologies, including the #ChatGPT #chatbot.
#tech #AI #law
#OpenAI Signs $38 Billion #Cloud Computing Deal With #Amazon
After signing agreements to use computing power from #Nvidia, #AMD & #Oracle, OpenAI is teaming up with the world’s largest cloud computing company.
#tech #AI #law #antitrust #technocracy #plutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/technology/openai-amazon-cloud-computing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The plans call for the first #supercomputer called #Lux to be constructed & come online within the next 6 months. It will be based around AMD's MI355X #ArtificialIntelligence chips, & the design will also include central processors & networking chips made by #AMD. The system is co-developed by AMD, #HewlettPackard Enterprise, #Oracle Cloud Infrastructure & Oak Ridge National Laboratory (#ORNL).
#science #law #EnvironmentalLaw #AI #tech #energy #electricity #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
#Oracle will also invest in the new #US #TikTok, as will the private #equity firm #SilverLake, another senior official said.
It will be “secured” in the US outside the control of TikTok’s Chinese owner, #ByteDance, one of the officials said. The U.S.-run TikTok will work to retrain the copy on #users’ #data in the US, & #China will not have access to the data, the officials added.
The software giant #Oracle will oversee the #security of #US #data & monitor changes & updates to #TikTok’s powerful recommendation #technology under a new deal to avert a ban of the service, acc/to a senior #Trump White House official.
A copy of the #algorithm, the recommendation engine that powers the app’s #addictive feed of short videos, will be licensed from China to a US *investor group* [#billionaires] that will oversee the app in the US, the official said.