By Stephen Nellis and Akash Sriram

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -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 announced a clutch of cloud computing deals that rocked the tech world and sent its stock up 35.9%, putting Ellison’s fortune close to $400 billion, second globally only to Elon Musk.

Then on Thursday, news broke that Paramount, the media conglomerate Ellison’s family now controls, is preparing a bid to buy out the storied Warner Bros Discovery, threatening overnight to dom

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