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Lotta apt comparisons from financial history being made around Situational Awareness, but it also reminds me quite a bit of SoftBank's shortlived supernova of an internal hedge fund Northstar www.ft.com/content/197c...
SoftBank liquidates most of portfolio at ‘Nasdaq whale’ trading unitJapanese tech group’s shortlived SB Northstar fund had racked up $6bn to $7bn in losseswww.ft.com
Haters doubt the power of the new AI economy, but we're now capable of letting a 24-year old kid speedrun Long-Term Capital Management www.ft.com/content/5fb4...
Citadel buys large portion of Situational Awareness equity holdingsLeopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund suffered steep losses in recent days from tech sell-offwww.ft.com
Really sad news. He was really well thought of by colleagues at the FT and was incredibly helpful to many of us over the years. My thoughts are with his family. bondvigilantes.com/blog/2026/07...
Jim LeavissWe are very sorry to share the news that Jim Leaviss passed away on 23 July 2026, aged 55.bondvigilantes.com
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Robert SmithLouis Theroux, whose production company Mindhouse made the poorly reviewed documentary HOW TO GET FILTHY RICH: WITH GARY STEVENSON, has a surprising new podcast guest: Gary Stevenson! During the episode, Stevenson opens up about the heavy burden of being able to consistently predict the future.
