{"slug": "leopold-aschenbrenner-medias-ai-golden-boy-investor-unloads-all-public-stock-to", "title": "Leopold Aschenbrenner, media’s AI golden boy investor, unloads all public stock to Citadel after facing margin calls", "summary": "Leopold Aschenbrenner, the 24-year-old founder of hedge fund Situational Awareness and former OpenAI employee, sold all of the fund's public stock to Citadel after facing margin calls amid a market correction for AI companies. The fund, which had grown to $45 billion, retains a stake in Anthropic, where Aschenbrenner's wife Avital Balwit serves as chief of staff to CEO Dario Amodei.", "body_md": "There’s no bigger hype machine that the business media, who are wont to anoint twenty year olds as the “[next Steve Jobs](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/04/elizabeth-holmes-from-next-steve-jobs-to-convicted-fraudster)” (Elizabeth Holmes) or the “[next Warren Buffett](https://www.wsj.com/finance/being-the-next-warren-buffett-sounds-like-an-honor-it-is-more-of-a-curse-b071c4bb?st=UVEnv2&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink)” (Sam Bankman Fried).\n\nNext up is Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former OpenAI employee turned hedge fund founder of Situational Awareness, who just last week was featured in the Wall Street Journal:\n\nIn June, the Wall Street Journal called him the “** 24-year-old AI Wiz**.”\n\nThe hedge fund was reportedly on a tear on AI-related investments, expanding in value to [$45 billion as reported by CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/30/leopold-aschenbrenners-hedge-fund-is-facing-steep-ai-losses.html).\n\nBut Situational Awareness reportedly faced margin calls from its brokers due to the recent market correction for AI-related companies. That forced Aschenbrenner to sell off all the fund’s stocks in publicly traded companies to Ken Griffin’s Citadel.\n\nSituational Awareness [still has a stake in Anthropic](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/30/leopold-aschenbrenners-hedge-fund-is-facing-steep-ai-losses.html), however. CNBC reports that Aschenbrenner is married to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s chief of staff, Avital Balwit.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/leopold-aschenbrenner-medias-ai-golden-boy-investor-unloads-all-public-stock-to", "canonical_source": "https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2026/07/31/leopold-aschenbrenner-medias-ai-golden-boy-investor-unloads-all-public-stock-to-citadel-after-facing-margin-calls/", "published_at": "2026-07-31 12:33:40+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-31 12:37:21.967758+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Leopold Aschenbrenner", "Situational Awareness", "OpenAI", "Citadel", "Ken Griffin", "Anthropic", "Dario Amodei", "Avital Balwit"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/leopold-aschenbrenner-medias-ai-golden-boy-investor-unloads-all-public-stock-to", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/leopold-aschenbrenner-medias-ai-golden-boy-investor-unloads-all-public-stock-to.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/leopold-aschenbrenner-medias-ai-golden-boy-investor-unloads-all-public-stock-to.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/leopold-aschenbrenner-medias-ai-golden-boy-investor-unloads-all-public-stock-to.jsonld"}}