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• Jason Bennett, 46, moved from San Francisco to Medellín, Colombia in 2018.
• Bennett quit his job at Banana Republic to move abroad and launch two startups.
• He said Medellín offers a better quality of life than San Francisco and is less expensive.

Jason Bennett had a successful career in San Francisco

• China's stock investors and watchers are discussing the markets before they reopen.
• China released a stimulus blitz a week before the National Day break, sending downtrodden markets on a tear.
• Retail investors dominate China's trading volume.

China's investors are looking

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• AI expert Gary Marcus says OpenAI may be forced to become a surveillance company to make money.
• AI could be leveraged to supercharge surveillance efforts. It's a scenario he calls "Orwellian."
• He said the company's employees should voice their concerns.

In modern literature, George Orwell's 1984 is perhaps

• Sri Pangulur started his own syndicate while working as a sales executive in Silicon Valley.
• He parlayed that syndicate experience to transition working in to venture capital at Tribe Capital.
• Last year, he joined Mayfield to co-lead its Select/Spring Fund, targeting new Series B investments.

Sri Pangulur embraced the after-work hustle to invest in early

• Starboard Value has taken a stake in Pfizer, people familiar with the matter said.
• The drug giant's stock price has dropped significantly since its COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
• Starboard's stake in Pfizer is reportedly worth about $1 billion.

Starboard Value has its next target: pharma giant Pfizer.

The activist

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Microsoft is moving its Halo development to Unreal Engine 5, after more than a year of rumors of an engine switch following a leadership overhaul at 343 Industries, layoffs, and other changes. 343 Industries is now becoming Halo Studios as part of this engine change announcement, hoping to mark a new chapter in the

• Alphadyne Asset Management hired JPMorgan's Thomas Byuen as a commodity index portfolio manager.
• Hedge funds like Balyasny and Jain Global have poached big bank commodity traders in recent years.
• Despite losing money this year, commodity strategies have been a top performer

• Google's NotebookLM launched Audio Overviews, which quickly gained attention for its realism.
• The feature uses the information you feed it to create a "deep dive" discussion hosted by two AI hosts.
• I fed it information about a number of topics and was surprised by the quality of the podcasts.

Google's new AI tool is already