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Billionaire hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller, who runs the Duquesne Family Office, made a number of interesting portfolio moves during the second quarter. Among them, the firm sold some of its Sandisk(NASDAQ: SNDK) stock and piled into three other AI-related companies: Taiwan Semiconductor (NYSE: TSM), Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL), and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN).

Social media comments by Tobias Lütke, the right-wing CEO of the Canadian online shopping site Shopify, in which the multi-billionaire attacks universal suffrage have been met with outrage in Canada and internationally.

As the founder of Appaloosa Management, David Tepper built his reputation through a keen eye for distressed assets, including debt instruments trading at steep discounts, and deep-value stocks that most other investors overlooked amid temporary turmoil.

The George Soros protégé ran his own fund, Duquesne Capital, for three decades, from 1981 to 2010, with no down years, and reportedly generating average annual returns of 30%, which is unheard of.

Over the last two decades, the company has grown into Russia’s largest e-commerce platform, with nearly 95,000 pickup points across the country and more than half of the nation’s population making purchases at least once a month.

Over the past week, a flurry of 13F filings have revealed the portfolio moves institutional investors made during the second quarter. The shifts from one such billionaire investor, Stanley Druckenmiller, captured my attention.

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One Gen Z high school dropout with two tech businesses to his name has just become Europe’s youngest self-made billionaire following a breakout investing round—before even turning 30. James Dacombe, the 25-year-old serial entrepreneur behind AI chipmaker Olix and brain monitoring startup CoMind, just hit a personal net worth of over $1 billion. 

On August 14, 2026, Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group (OTC:SFTBF) disclosedortfolio into a single name: Intel (NASDAQ:INTC | INTC Price Prediction). The position, held as of June 30, 2026, totaled 86,956,522 shares valued at $12,141,739,167. For a fund of SoftBank’s scale, that level of single-stock concentration is a directional bet on an American semiconductor turnaround

Ray Dalio has long stood as an influential sounding board for investors. As the founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, Dalio’s reputation is supported by his ability to dissect economic cycles with unusual clarity. His outlook often serves as a guide for both institutional and individual investors.