Steve Eisman is warning that stress in private credit may be the early stage of a broader liquidity problem, drawing parallels to the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. In a new episode of the Real Eisman Playbook, the Big Short investor addresses reports that Blue Owl Capital is banning redemptions from one of its private credit funds. Blue Owl is an asset management firm that provides massive loans to companies that don’t want to deal with traditional banks. Says Eisman, “There was some very negative news in the world of private equity and private credit this week. There were…
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The hedge fund managed by billionaire Bill Ackman unloaded more than a billion dollars in Alphabet (GOOGL), while splurging on one mega-cap tech name. Pershing Square Capital’s 13F filing shows that it dumped $1.30 billion worth of Alphabet’s Class A shares (GOOGL) in Q4 2025 to trim its holdings by 86%. The hedge fund sold 4,165,676 GOOGL shares last quarter, cutting its exposure to 678,297 shares valued at $212.306 million. The firm also unloaded $50.3 million in Alphabet’s Class C shares (GOOG) in the same quarter, selling 160,160 shares to bring down its ownership to 6,163,871 shares. Looking at the…
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban is pushing back on the idea that artificial intelligence will automatically replace human workers, noting that the economics are far more complicated than headline-grabbing claims suggest. In a new post on X, Cuban lays out a practical framework for comparing the real cost of AI agents to the fully loaded cost of a human employee. According to Cuban, employers must take into account the aggregate token cost of AI agents as well as developer and maintenance costs to see whether the expenses justify the replacement of a human worker. “This is the smartest counter I’ve seen…
Billionaire investor Ray Dalio is endorsing a bipartisan effort in Congress to cap the federal budget deficit at 3% of gross domestic product, calling it a necessary step to avoid a long-term debt crisis. In a new post on X, the founder of Bridgewater Associates points to legislation introduced by Representatives Bill Huizenga and Scott Peters that would reduce and maintain the federal deficit at or below 3% of GDP. He says the proposal is one of the few areas where lawmakers across party lines appear aligned. “I love and endorse the bipartisan 3% of GDP Budget Deficit Solution. In…
Microsoft says a bug in Microsoft 365 Copilot caused the AI assistant to summarize emails labeled confidential, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies relied on by enterprise customers. The issue was first detected on January 21st and tracked internally under CW1226324, BleepingComputer reports. It affected the Copilot “work tab” chat feature, which incorrectly read and summarized emails stored in users’ Sent Items and Drafts folders, including messages protected by sensitivity labels. Microsoft acknowledges the problem in a service alert. “Users’ email messages with a confidential label applied are being incorrectly processed by Microsoft 365 Copilot chat. The Microsoft 365 Copilot…
Microsoft is widening its artificial intelligence stack again, this time by bringing Elon Musk’s xAI into its Copilot ecosystem. CEO Satya Nadella says on X that Grok 4.1 Fast is joining Copilot Studio’s model lineup, expanding the range of systems developers can use to build custom AI agents. “With Copilot Studio, we are focused on adding more choice and flexibility for anyone building custom agents. Great to add Grok 4.1 Fast to our multi-model lineup.” The addition places xAI alongside OpenAI and Anthropic inside Microsoft’s enterprise builder environment, reinforcing the company’s push toward a multi-model strategy rather than reliance on…
Two of the most influential leaders in AI are warning that the technology’s next phase could concentrate unprecedented intellectual power inside data centers, raising profound geopolitical and societal questions. At the AI Summit Impact in India, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman outlines a future in which machine intelligence may eclipse human capacity on a global scale. He says the projection is uncertain but urgent enough to demand serious debate. “If we are right, by the end of 2028, more of the world’s intellectual capacity could reside inside of data centers than outside of them. This is an extraordinary statement to make,…
Brad Gerstner’s tech-focused investment firm is close to abandoning a premier data center play while deploying hundreds of millions of dollars into three AI names. Altimeter Capital’s latest 13F filing shows that the firm dumped $247 million in Broadcom (AVGO) shares in Q4 2025. The investment firm sold 712,647 AVGO shares to slash its stake by 96%. As of December 31st, 2025, Altimeter holds 32,129 shares in AVGO valued at $11.119 million. In Q4, Altimeter dumped 100% of its position in Alibaba (BABA), selling 969,100 shares to recoup $152 million in capital. The firm also dropped all of its holdings…
A veteran trader is drawing a direct line between the early days of the subprime crisis and a sudden freeze in private credit, warning that what just happened may be the first domino. In a new post on X, legendary investor George Noble invokes a scene from The Big Short, recalling how the 2007 bankruptcy of New Century Financial signaled the beginning of something far larger. “They flip on CNN and see it: New Century Financial – the second-largest subprime lender in America – has filed for bankruptcy. ‘It’s starting.’ That was April 2, 2007. New Century wasn’t the crisis.…
Michael Burry is escalating his attack on Palantir’s (PLTR) valuation, noting that the company’s core business model may be fundamentally broken beneath its artificial intelligence surge. In a new post on Substack, the Big Short investor scrutinizes Palantir’s net dollar retention (NDR) data and ties it to former employees’ accounts of how the software actually operates in practice. Burry says NDR is the structural backbone of Palantir’s strategy, laid out in its 2020 S-1 prospectus as an “Acquire, Expand, Scale” model designed to steadily increase revenue from existing customers. “If Palantir’s business model is working, that NDR should never be…