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A 25-Year-Old AI Investor’s Hedge Fund Implodes
Citadel bought most of the fund’s public stocks at a discount after AI bets fell 67% in July and triggered lender demands.
- Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund, Situational Awareness, sold the bulk of its public equities portfolio to Citadel after facing margin calls, with billionaire founder Kenneth Griffin sealing the rescue deal in an early morning phone call.
- Situational Awareness grew from less than $1 billion in early 2025 to $45 billion by July, but Goldman Sachs, one of the fund's larger lenders, demanded loan repayment when AI stocks plummeted, forcing a fire sale.
- Over 30 hours, the fund offloaded roughly $20 billion in stocks to meet lender requirements, claiming to sell distressed hedges despite holding monster bets against Adobe that appeared stronger than ever.
- Aschenbrenner vowed to "learn the necessary lessons from this experience" in a letter to investors after the fund suffered a 67% loss in July, promising to fight another day.
- Roughly $8 billion remains of the fund's assets, down from $30 billion at July's start, and Wall Street views the subsequent market rally as a temporary reprieve rather than proof the broader financial fallout will be contained.
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The case of Situational Awareness and its investments in Artificial Intelligence companies is a good lesson about risk.
·Lisboa, Portugal
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According to one report, Leopold Aschenbrenner, known as the “Nostradamus of the AI”, has made a new $400 million bet on a private company, just a few days after the near collapse of his hedge fund.
·Guayaquil, Ecuador
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5,000 investors still copy the AI trader who blew up
The AI trade blew up its own poster child last month, and thousands of people decided to keep betting on him. More than 5,000 retail investors are still mirroring Leopold Aschenbrenner’s stock portfolio, Business Insider reported, even after his hedge fund nearly imploded. They do it through Autopilot, an app that builds portfolios from the […] This story continues at The Next Web
·Amsterdam, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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Total News Sources23
Leaning Left3Leaning Right6Center5Last UpdatedBias Distribution43% Right
Bias Distribution
- 43% of the sources lean Right
43% Right
L 21%
C 36%
R 43%
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