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Billionaire activist investor and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, known for high-profile hedge fund bets and public market commentary.
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Cathie Wood cites 99.99% annual falls in AI inference costs against Bill Ackman's warning that the Fed's September hike won't slow AI spending. Her figures price AI's output and his worry is demand for its inputs, so both can hold at once.
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Precision Neuroscience raised $250 million at just over a $1 billion valuation, $42.5 million of it from Bill Ackman's Pershing Square and his institute. The other $207.5 million came in undisclosed amounts, so the round names its generalist investors without showing what they paid.
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The pause itself runs twelve months, which any vendor with a balance sheet can wait out. The tool-by-tool procurement review running alongside it is what decides whether the seats are still there afterwards.
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The memo promises to remove layers at a company that already turns a billion dollars a quarter, and the arithmetic says the savings are earmarked for spending rather than margin, which is roughly why the stock moved less than 1%.
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The Ackman Oxman Institute is anchored in Pershing Square stock, housed in discounted Manhattan lab space, and structured to hire the researchers elite universities can no longer hold.
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Mark Cuban and Ro Khanna spent a weekend arguing on X about California's Proposition 40. The operative question for founders is where the cash comes from.
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A one-time 5% tax on billion-dollar net worths was certified for November 2026 and would reach back to residency on January 1. Counsel has already put the departure threat in writing.
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