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Larry Ellison is back: from Silicon Valley bad boy to AI kingmaker

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago09 mins

Fortune magazine wondered on its cover whether Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison might become the world’s richest person, while BusinessWeek declared Ellison is “cool again”, noting that “Silicon Valley’s bad boy is having his revenge”. Both were published 25 years ago, but they could’ve run this week. The octogenarian Ellison is back in headlines after Oracle…

Africa’s Minerals Are Being Bartered for Security – Why It’s a Bad Idea

eriinfo.com2 months ago010 mins

A US-brokered peace deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda binds the two African nations to a worrying arrangement: one where a country signs away its mineral resources to a superpower in return for opaque assurances of security. The peace deal, signed in June 2025, aims to end three decades of conflict…