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…
A 24-year-old hedge fund manager known as "AI Jesus" lost 78% of his $45 billion fund in six days after secret 5x leverage triggered margin calls, according to George Hahn on The Prof G Pod. The colla…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's $45 billion hedge fund, Situational Awareness, collapsed in late July after a sharp downswing in AI stocks triggered margin calls, forcing a fire sale of most of its publicly t…
Citadel's Wellington multistrategy fund gained 5.9% in July after acquiring approximately $16 billion in AI stocks from Situational Awareness, the collapsed hedge fund run by former OpenAI researcher …
Leopold Aschenbrenner's $45 billion AI hedge fund, Situational Awareness, collapsed in late July 2026, triggering a 75% volatility spike in semiconductor stocks (SOX Index), the third such instance af…
A new essay argues that the AI race is not a prisoner's dilemma, challenging the common 'arms race' framing used by figures like Leopold Aschenbrenner and Hunter Ash. The author, a philosophy teacher,…
AI and semiconductor stock sell-offs in July 2026 hit stockpicking hedge funds, with Whale Rock Capital's flagship fund down 21.7% in the month, cutting its 2026 gains to 35.1% from 72.5% through June…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness lost 67% in July 2026, falling from $45 billion to $10 billion in assets under management, after concentrated bets on AI hardware and semicondu…
Citadel CEO Ken Griffin acquired Situational Awareness, the AI hedge fund founded by former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner, after the fund suffered significant losses. The Wall Street Journal's…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI fund, Situational Awareness, collapsed amid turmoil driven by leverage, according to a discussion between Ed Elson and Michael Green, chief strategist at Simplify Asset Mana…
Leopold Aschenbrenner, former OpenAI researcher and founder of AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness, suffered a 67% one-month loss and was forced to sell his stock portfolio to Citadel, but mar…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness lost roughly 67% of its value in July, forcing it to sell a $16 billion public equity portfolio to Citadel at a 10% discount to meet…
South Korea's Kospi index closed 5% lower on Monday, with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix both falling 9%, after a historic July selloff that left the benchmark roughly a third below its June peak. T…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund, Situational Awareness LP, collapsed from $45 billion to about $10 billion in six trading days after margin calls forced it to sell nearly its entire public stock po…
Leopold Aschenbrenner, founder of the AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness, saw his $45 billion portfolio collapse days before his wedding in Carmel, California, after heavy borrowing to make m…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness lost 67% in July as leveraged AI bets unraveled, forcing the fund to sell most of its public holdings to Citadel and remove all leverage. The f…
Hedge fund Situational Awareness, founded in 2024 by former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner, lost 67% in August 2025 and was forced to sell most of its public holdings to Citadel after debt-fuel…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness, which reportedly fell 67% last month due to leveraged bets on chipmakers and AI firms, sold most of its portfolio to Ken Griffin's …
Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former OpenAI researcher, predicts in a June 2024 essay that artificial general intelligence (AGI) could arrive by 2027, with machines surpassing many college graduates by 202…