Oracle co-CEO Clay Magouyrk shares the stage with Sam Altman at Oracle AI World

Oracle co-CEO Clay Magouyrk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared together on October 27 at Oracle AI World 2026 in Las Vegas. Their joint session started at 12:40 p.m. ET, a few hours after Magouyrk wrapped a solo keynote. The pairing was not a courtesy booking. Oracle used the conference to announce a wider partnership with OpenAI, one that plants ChatGPT and Codex inside Oracle’s enterprise applications and databases. What Oracle and OpenAI announced Oracle AI World ran from October 25 to 28. Magouyrk took the main stage at 9:00 a.m. on October 27 to lay out how AI could be applied across development, data security, and infrastructure. The headline business news was the expanded deal. Under the new arrangement, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Codex will be integrated into Oracle’s business applications and its database products. Oracle is also upgrading the hardware side of its cloud. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, or OCI, is adding support for Google TPUs, OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip, and Cerebras systems. Oracle is pitching the integrations at sectors such as healthcare and finance. The stated aim is better operational efficiency, without forcing businesses to rip out and rebuild their existing sy...