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Luria: Three-year GPU depreciation would drastically cut Oracle and CoreWeave profits
“If you told Amazon and Microsoft, and certainly if you told companies like Oracle and CoreWeave, no, no, no, no. These chips will only generate meaningful revenue for three years. Their profitability would decline very dramatically. So again, from Microsoft, A…”
Heitzman: Circular revenue deals between AI giants are a warning sign
“Well, it depends on who you are, and that kind of goes to the recycling or the circularness of some of these things. Obviously, the OpenAI, Microsoft, or OpenAI Oracle, goes back to the OpenAI Oracle deal. And, you know, I'm gonna give you money that you're go…”
Ranjan Roy compares the OpenAI-Oracle deal to the dot-com fiber buildout
“I think for the market to have reacted that positively, it just, I don't know, it feels like in, you know, the internet bubble, there was so much that happened around fiber build fiber capacity build out that seems to start to echo this, that it this I don't k…”
Bosworth: Consumers will soon treat AI models like invisible database infrastructure
“The model itself isn't the value. And I think we're going to get to a world very soon where consumers, they don't care. They don't want to specify the model they're using. They don't want to, they don't care if it's 4.7 or 4.8. Like you don't care what Oracle,…”
Kantrowitz: Microsoft and Oracle Pipelines Heavily Depend on OpenAI Commitments
“Microsoft had four, has 49% Of its 62, six hundred twenty seven billion future backlog tied to OpenAI. Oracle is 54% of its five hundred and fifty three billion pipeline, depending on OpenAI alone.”
Roy: AI will see major breakthroughs alongside a 2026 financial washout
“Twenty-twenty-six is gonna be both the best and worst year for AI. What I mean by that is, I think we're gonna see much more widespread adoption, major breakthroughs, but also I think the kind of like financial Arrangements that have been built and kind of tha…”
Cramer: Oracle's $300B RPO Commitment Is a Bridge Too Far
“When you come up with that RPO number, 300 that was the bridge too far.”
Luria: OpenAI promised $1.4 trillion across Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon, CoreWeave
“OpenAI promised me three hundred billion. They also promised Microsoft two hundred billion, Amazon thirty eight billion, CoreWeave twenty five billion. In total, 1.4 trillion dollars.”
Roy: AI Infrastructure Will Top Out at 20-30% Margins, Not 70%
“In reality, like, there's no reason that the margin profile should change over time. Like, maybe it starts to improve, but it's incremental. Maybe you get to 20, 25%. Maybe you squeeze out 30%. But in reality, like, this is a different business than the sleepy…”
Oracle Lost Nearly $100 Million Renting Nvidia Blackwell Chips in Three Months
“In the three months that ended in August, Oracle lost nearly a hundred million from the rentals of NVIDIA's Blackwell chips.”
Kantrowitz: AI market exuberance is a red flag amid slow enterprise adoption
“Like this exuberance in the stock market is based off of infrastructure spend and not revenue. It's all based off of revenue projections. And those rep revenue projections are extremely aggressive, especially when you consider the fact that enterprises are mov…”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI signed a $300 billion cloud contract with Oracle
“OpenAI signed a contract with Oracle to purchase 300 Billion dollars in computing power over roughly five years, a massive commitment that far outstrips the startup's current revenue.”
Morris: OpenAI redefined Stargate to include any rented data center
“Part of the reason they're able to claim Stargate is off the ground is because they changed the definition of it. Previously, it had to involve open AI, Oracle, the data center provider, SoftBank, the financier and MGX, which is a huge New sovereign wealth or …”
Suleyman: All OpenAI Inference Runs on Microsoft, With No Partnership Slowdown
“All of their inference comes through us, and so we, there's no slowdown in our you know, relationship with them. We sell them as much as we want to offer them, and then if there's any extra demand that they have, particularly on the, you know on the Oracle sid…”
Kantrowitz: 2026 will bring an AI infrastructure shakeout and chaos
“I also think the shakeout is coming in a way. Like, to me, I think, twenty-twenty-six is really going to be a year of chaos. I mean, we're already starting to see some of this happen with Oracle and some of the other infrastructure builders, and the bets have …”
Roy: Infrastructure headwinds hitting Oracle will also hit Broadcom and Google
“I still think whatever hits Oracle and open AI will hit a Broadcom and a Google, at least in the, in terms of how people are pricing in the infrastructure side of things.”
Report: Oracle delays some OpenAI datacenter deliveries from 2027 to 2028
“Oracle, there's a report out today that Oracle's gonna delay some of its data centers to open AI by, from 27 to twenty-twenty-eight.”
Oracle Credit Default Swaps Hit Highest Intraday Level Since April 2009
“This week, the Oracle CDS hit the highest intraday level since April, two, 2009.”
Kantrowitz: Oracle's $100B debt makes it the most indebted big tech company
“Oracle's debt. Outstanding debt load surpassed a hundred billion, making it the most indebted big tech company with an investment grade rating. It is burning cash and will still need to borrow billions more to meet its dividend and capital spending commitments…”
Siegler: Oracle's Abilene site is only active Stargate data center build
“So like Oracle famously controls the one right now in Abilene, Texas, that's the only one that's actually being built right now in the process of being built while the others are still just sort of being signed and squared away.”
ChatGPT will stay on Azure despite OpenAI's external infrastructure partnerships
“Is ChatGPT, by the way, going to stay on Azure, even though OpenAI is making these partnerships with NVIDIA and Oracle?
[2466] Scott Guthrie: Yes.”
The Stargate data center corporate entity hasn't even been formed
“The Stargate entity does not exist. They haven't formed it yet.”
Patel: Frontier AI cluster costs have scaled from $100M to $10B
“For GPT-IV, it was a few hundred million dollars and it's one building full of GPUs, too. GPT-IV 4.5 and the reasoning models, like, oh, one, oh, three were done in a, in three buildings on the same site, and, you know, billions of dollars to, hey, these next …”
Roy: Oracle's credit default swap spread skyrocketed to three-year highs
“There, the CDS spread for them skyrocketed today for the first time. It was like the highest in over three years, but the scale of the move had a lot of people talking about it.”
Kantrowitz: Oracle carries $82B in debt with 450% debt-to-equity ratio
“Oracle is already high, highly leveraged. The company has a long-term debt of about Long-term debt of about eighty two billion at the end of August, and its debt to eight equity ratio was about 450%. By contrast, Google parent Alphabet debt to equity ratio was…”
Gomez: Cohere Powers Over 50 Applications in Oracle Enterprise Suite
“So there's some good examples of that with our partner Oracle, which they have this suite of applications, which basically power enterprise, HR, supply chain all of these sorts of back office functions. And we're powering over 50 different applications within …”
Roy: Oracle has dropped 65% from September 2025 peak
“Oracle is down 65% from the peak up back in September.”
Saint-Marc: Cisco created Linux Foundation project Agency with Google, Oracle, Dell
“To back all this effort, we've actually created an open source project called Agency. And this, you know, became a Linux Foundation project with the backing of a few large formative members. Google, Oracle Red Hat were with us and Dell as well.”