Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness LP, a hedge fund he grew from $225 million to about $45 billion, lost most of its value in about four weeks in July 2026 after a 439% net return in the fi…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness lost 67% in July after its portfolio was 56% invested in SanDisk and Micron, which fell 56.5% and 39.1% respectively between June 25 and July 2…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness hedge fund lost roughly $30 billion in July after its two largest bets, a $5.7 billion stake in SanDisk and a $5.6 billion stake in Micron Technology, plu…
Jane Street, the New York-based quantitative trading firm, lost approximately $15 billion in July, its largest monthly loss on record and first negative month since 2016, driven by exposure to the AI-…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness AI hedge fund lost approximately 67% of its value in July 2026 after margin calls forced it to sell its public portfolio, despite having returned 439% in …
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness held $5.7 billion in SanDisk and $5.6 billion in Micron at the end of June, accounting for 56% of its $20 billion US stock portfolio, before th…
Jane Street, the New York-based quantitative trading firm, lost approximately $15 billion in July 2026, its first monthly loss in nearly a decade, driven by volatility in AI-related stocks and a conce…
More than 80 AI billionaires worth a collective $2.9 trillion appear on Forbes' annual ranking, with 45 joining in the past year, as San Francisco-based Anthropic plots an IPO at a valuation of $1 tri…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness AI hedge fund lost 67% of its value in July 2026, after nearly 50% of its US equity portfolio was invested in SanDisk and Micron, according to SEC filings…
China's rookie fund managers are suffering heavy losses in an AI-fueled tech sell-off, with first-time Caitong Fund Management manager Yuan Zeqiang seeing his two inaugural portfolios plunge 36% and 3…
China's rookie portfolio managers faced steep losses as AI-related tech stocks tumbled during a 50-day market turmoil, with Yuan Zeqiang's two debut funds at Caitong Fund Management falling 36% and 33…
Jane Street took a $15 billion hit in July from its exposure to AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness and other tech stocks battered by the market selloff, according to two people familiar with …
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund, Situational Awareness LP, lost $20 billion this week, according to a Wall Street Journal report, after Citadel bought its stock portfolio following big losses in AI…
Leopold Aschenbrenner, the 24-year-old founder of hedge fund Situational Awareness, saw his $45 billion AI-focused fund unravel after excessive borrowing left him vulnerable when his bets faltered, fo…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund, Situational Awareness, which bet heavily on AI, lost more than two-thirds of its public equity holdings' value in four weeks and was forced to liquidate, with Citad…
Leopold Aschenbrenner, a 24-year-old German AI researcher and hedge fund manager, lost approximately $35 billion of investors' money in leveraged bets on AI infrastructure stocks during a July tech se…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's prediction of AGI by 2027 faces skepticism as scaling laws show diminishing returns, with the jump from GPT-3 to GPT-4 being a seismic shift but later iterations offering only …
Situational Awareness, the AI-focused hedge fund run by Leopold Aschenbrenner, invested an additional $400 million in Source Foundry, a California chip manufacturing startup founded in 2025 by Stanfor…
AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness invested $400 million in Source Foundry, a stealth chip startup founded by Stanford researchers, bringing its total investment to $500 million. The fund, fo…
Situational Awareness, the hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, made a US$400 million investment in chip manufacturing startup Source Foundry, backed by Sequoia Capita…