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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Wednesday, September 11th. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

Oracle arrived late to cloud computing and its trailed competitors,

Microsoft, Amazon, and Google in the space.

But in the artificial intelligence boom,

that delayed entry could be the key to its success.

We're going to tell you why.

And then, to get into Elon Musk's orbit two investors have

essentially committed their venture firm to serving him. Our reporter

Burber Jin will bring us that story and tell us what it says about Silicon Valley investing.

But first, Oracle built its name on relational database software.

Its future could be more about AI.

That's because the 47 year old tech giant has carved out a place for itself,

providing cloud services to companies

training AI models. These include notable players in the space like open AI and

ex-AI. Here to tell us more is our reporter Tom D'Tan.

Tom Oracle was behind other big players in building out its cloud computing business,

but you're reporting that may have given the company a late mover advantage.

How so?

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