Larry Ellison may have hijacked every power lane in America

Larry Ellison seems to have hijacked every power lane in America (tech, politics, and Hollywood) all at ￰0￱ 81-year-old billionaire, Oracle’s co-founder and current CTO, became the richest person in the world for a day last week after Oracle shares exploded on the back of massive AI ￰1￱ key driver? A huge new partnership with OpenAI, plus over $455 billion in signed contracts tied to cloud and artificial ￰2￱ earnings report triggered Oracle’s biggest single-day gain since 1992. Larry, who owns around 40% of the company, shot up to a net worth of $363 billion, briefly overtaking Elon Musk, as Cryptopolitan previously ￰3￱ he’s doing it all with Donald Trump’s ￰4￱ a White House event in January, Trump appeared with Larry to announce Stargate, a $500 billion AI data center venture between Oracle, OpenAI, and ￰5￱ stood on stage next to Trump, Sam Altman, and Masayoshi ￰6￱ told former ￰7￱ Minister Tony Blair at a Dubai summit in February, “AI is a much bigger deal than the Industrial Revolution, electricity and everything that’s come before.” Larry moves into media, Trump wants him to buy TikTok Right after that Oracle earnings bombshell, The Wall Street Journal reported the Ellison family is now preparing a majority-cash bid for Warner ￰8￱ would combine Paramount Global, already taken over by Larry’s son David Ellison, with another entertainment giant, creating a new super-conglomerate controlling Paramount+, HBO Max, and two of Hollywood’s biggest ￰9￱ is running Skydance Media, which merged with Paramount to form this new ￰10￱ it’s Larry who controls the entities that own ￰11￱ same week the Warner ￰12￱ leaked, it also came out that David is pursuing an acquisition of the Free Press, the digital news site founded by Bari ￰13￱ are underway to give Bari a leading editorial role at CBS News, which Skydance now owns under its new ￰14￱ has also installed Trump ally Kenneth Weinstein as CBS News ombudsman, tightening his grip on the editorial ￰15￱ himself called David “a great man” after reaching a $16 million legal settlement with CBS over a “60 Minutes” ￰16￱ Larry was once a supporter of Bill Clinton, he now sits comfortably in Trump’s ￰17￱ 2020, he even hosted a fundraiser for Trump at his estate, but didn’t show up ￰18￱ TikTok angle is just as loud.

Larry’s been circling TikTok since 2020, when Trump tried to force its Chinese parent ByteDance to sell off ￰19￱ signed a TikTok ban in 2024, but Trump returned to office and paused enforcement while trade talks with China ￰20￱ the White House event in January, Trump was asked about Elon buying ￰21￱ said, “I’d be fine with that… I’d like Larry to buy it, too.” Larry stays in control at Oracle and builds his personal empire Even after handing over the CEO title, Larry’s still running ￰22￱ inside Oracle say he leads weekly development meetings and keeps a tight partnership with CEO Safra ￰23￱ 2024, it bought health-data company Cerner for $28.3 billion, and Larry used that to explain his long-term strategy.

“Healthcare was the only big problem Elon left us,” he said at the Oracle Health ￰24￱ doesn’t hide his admiration for Elon Musk, often calling him an ￰25￱ Elon needed investors for the $44 billion Twitter buyout, Larry texted him offering “a billion… or whatever you recommend.” His Ellison Institute of Technology is directly inspired by Elon’s company ￰26￱ institute is working with Oxford University researchers using Oracle tech to find profitable solutions for climate change, food security, and more. Larry’s obsession with control goes back decades, as Cryptopolitan detailed in an Op-ed by the same ￰27￱ 2000, during Microsoft’s antitrust scandal, he admitted to hiring investigators to dig into Microsoft’s ties to lobbyists and ￰28￱ called it his “civic duty.” In the early 2000s, Larry got sued by shareholders after dumping $900 million in Oracle stock before earnings ￰29￱ didn’t admit guilt but settled and donated $100 million to ￰30￱ started all this after dropping out of college twice, getting a job at Ampex, and working on a CIA database project named “Oracle.” He liked the name so much, he used it for his own startup in ￰31￱ went public in 1986, and by the ’90s, he was a ￰32￱ smartest crypto minds already read our ￰33￱ in?

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