How a 24-Year-Old Blew Up a $45 Billion AI Fund
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 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 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'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's hedge fund Situational Awareness LP collapsed from $45 billion to roughly $10 billion in four trading days after margin calls forced liquidation, with Citadel buying its levera…
Citadel acquired approximately $16 billion in public equity holdings from Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness LP after margin calls from Bank of America, Goldman Sachs,…
Leopold Aschenbrenner, a 24-year-old former OpenAI researcher and founder of hedge fund Situational Awareness LP, was forced to sell all public stock holdings after the fund posted large losses from d…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI-focused hedge fund, Situational Awareness LP, sold nearly all its public equity portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel after heavy losses in the AI stock sell-off, according to …
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund, Situational Awareness LP, has sold most of its AI-related holdings after losses, including its stake in Anthropic, signaling a shift from his previous aggressive AI…
Citadel, Ken Griffin's $71B hedge fund, acquired a $5.5B portfolio of AI-related stocks from Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness LP on July 30, including roughly $1B in Bitcoin mining stocks…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness LP hedge fund liquidated its entire $16 billion public equity portfolio of AI stocks to Citadel in a single block trade after leveraged bets cratered, wit…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI-focused hedge fund, Situational Awareness LP, saw its assets under management drop to roughly $10 billion after being forced to liquidate the bulk of its public stock portfo…
Citadel Securities paid $10 billion to acquire the public equity holdings of Situational Awareness LP, the AI-focused hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, after the fu…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI hedge fund Situational Awareness LP (SALP) liquidated its entire public equity portfolio around July 30, 2026, after margin pressure from losses in key positions like SK Hyn…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund, Situational Awareness LP, holds a $5 billion stake in Anthropic, representing roughly one-fifth of the fund's $20 billion in assets under management. The fund has g…
Citadel, Ken Griffin's hedge fund giant, has acquired a stock portfolio from Situational Awareness LP, the AI-focused fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, after the fund suf…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness LP, an AI-focused hedge fund that managed roughly $20-24 billion, liquidated its entire public equity book after margin calls from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness LP liquidated its entire public equities portfolio in a margin-fueled fire sale, offloading all holdings to a single buyer on or around July 30. The AI-fo…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness LP hedge fund, which grew from $225 million to $20 billion on a pure AGI bet, is seeking fresh capital after the July 2026 semiconductor rout hammered its…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness LP hedge fund has reached a $20 billion valuation, driven by returns exceeding 1,000% since its late 2024 launch and a 270% gain year-to-date in 2026. The…
Nebius Group shares surged approximately 10% after a regulatory filing revealed that Situational Awareness LP, an investment firm led by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, acquired a 5.5%…