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Bill Ackman has stepped into Microsoft in a meaningful way, disclosing positions across both his hedge fund and his newer closed-end vehicle. Ackman pointed to Microsoft three sixty five and Azure as the structural pillars of his thesis, effectively arguing that Microsoft holds two of the most durable on-ramps into enterprise AI adoption.
That AI theme is reshaping entire industries well beyond tech. The major consulting firms — McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte, EY, and the rest — are retooling from the inside out, hiring more technical talent, building proprietary AI tools, and rethinking how consultants are trained and evaluated. The old model of billing hours for slide decks is under serious pressure.
Meanwhile, geopolitical risk is back in the energy picture. The UAE is fast-tracking a second West-to-East oil pipeline designed to route crude around the Strait of Hormuz, which remains severely constrained. That move signals Gulf producers are no longer treating Hormuz disruption as a tail risk — they are engineering around it as a baseline assumption, which carries real implications for global supply pricing.
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