Press digest: Wall Street Journal — October 8
ORCL•The Wall Street Journal’s top stories include Oracle, Broadcom and SpaceX pursuing AI hardware financing deals potentially worth tens of billions of dollars each, alongside reports on OpenAI safety, Ripple, healthcare spending, tariffs and the CDC.
1. AI financing deals
Oracle, Broadcom and SpaceX are pursuing major financing deals for AI hardware, with Apollo, Blackstone and Goldman Sachs among lenders discussing transactions potentially worth tens of billions of dollars each.
2. Other stories
Three fired OpenAI employees called on the company to work with outside safety auditors and preserve the ability to monitor increasingly sophisticated AI models. Ripple is expanding into Wall Street by providing swap financing to leveraged exchange-traded funds. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said Democrats would seek to reverse healthcare spending cuts and challenge President Donald Trump’s tariff and Iran policies if they win control of the chamber. Newly installed CDC Director Erica Schwartz said she wants to reduce paternalism at the agency, explain recommendations more clearly and listen more closely to Americans’ concerns.
