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☑️ Oracle’s Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump’s loss - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/20/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-election-challenges/

Oracle’s Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump’s loss
The billionaire GOP donor, the biggest backer of Elon Musk’s attempted Twitter takeover, participated along with Fox’s Sean Hannity and Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to court filings and a participant.

The GSA says Oracle is giving the US government a 75% discount on its license-based software and a "substantial" discount on its cloud service through November (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…

How to take our country back: The America you grew up in is under attack from technologies that we ourselves invented.
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How to take our country back
The America you grew up in is under attack from technologies that we ourselves invented.

Liebe #Orgel-Übende, Fuß aufs Herz: Wie endet bei Euch das bachsche Pedal-Exercitium?
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Color Distance Oracles and Snippets: Separation Between Exact and Approximate Solutions
Noam Horowicz, Tsvi Kopelowitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04578 htt…

Color Distance Oracles and Snippets: Separation Between Exact and Approximate Solutions
In the snippets problem, the goal is to preprocess text $T$ so that given two patterns $P_1$ and $P_2$, one can locate the occurrences of the two patterns in $T$ that are closest to each other, or report their distance. Kopelowitz and Krauthgamer [CPM2016] showed upper bound tradeoffs and conditional lower bounds tradeoffs for the snippets problem, by utilizing connections between the snippets problem and the problem of constructing a color distance oracle (CDO), which is a data structure that …

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SEC filing: Oracle signed multiple large cloud agreements, including one that is expected to contribute $30B in annual revenue starting in FY28; ORCL jumps 5% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/30/oracle-orcl-stock-cloud-deal.html

Oracle stock jumps after $30 billion annual cloud deal revealed in filing
Oracle shares have jumped more than 33% this year, benefiting from cloud growth and the rise of artificial intelligence models.

Sources: SoftBank purchased Foxconn's EV plant in Ohio for $375M, a move aimed at kickstarting its $500B Stargate data center project with OpenAI and Oracle (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-08/…

A deep dive into Oracle's data center strategy and its emergence as an AI computing powerhouse, amid questions about the sustainability of the GPU business (SemiAnalysis)
https://semianalysis.com/2025/06/30/how-oracle-is-winning-the-ai-compute-…

How Oracle Is Winning the AI Compute Market
Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure business is firing on all cylinders and is greatly outpacing expectations. All eyes are on the high-profile Stargate JV and the massive Abilene, Texas datacenter…

The US GSA says AWS has agreed to provide federal agencies with up to $1B in discounts for cloud adoption, modernization, and training through 2028 (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/amazon-aws-federal-discounts.html

Amazon's cloud business giving federal agencies up to $1 billion in discounts
The GSA has also reached deals with cloud provider Oracle and OpenAI to give federal agencies access to ChatGPT at a discount.