According to @LexSokolin, Oracle shifted from AI champion to an AI hedge as traders avoid shorting NVIDIA to prevent getting steamrolled, making ORCL a proxy short on the AI boom due to its sizable debt and heavy OpenAI exposure, source: @LexSokolin. He notes that this positioning reflects a preference to express bearish AI sentiment via Oracle’s balance-sheet risk and OpenAI linkage rather than via NVDA, source: @LexSokolin.