Vanity Fair publishes a reported portrait of Larry Ellison’s reach across Oracle, Lanai and beyond

Vanity Fair’s new Larry Ellison profile portrays Oracle’s AI data-center push as one part of a broader reported web spanning Lanai, media and politics. Reporter Tom Dotan said he spent a year talking to people close to an “increasingly reclusive” Ellison, while the story says Oracle’s expansion has raised debt, turned free cash flow negative and deepened its dependence on OpenAI.