Situational Awareness' 13F Reveals an $11 Billion AI Bet That Unraveled in Under a Month

Situational Awareness sold its Anthropic stake at a 20% discount

Situational Awareness lost roughly $30bn in July. The desk reported that three weeks ago. What happened inside those six days has not. Gregory Zuckerman, Juliet Chung and Peter Rudegeair have reconstructed it for the Wall Street Journal, and the sequence is stranger than the number. The phone call that gave it away David Mann runs […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Situational Awareness' 13F Reveals an $11 Billion AI Bet That Unraveled in Under a Month

On CNBC this morning, Leslie Picker walked viewers through the newly released Q2 13F filing from Situational Awareness, the AI-focused hedge fund run by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner. The filing reveals a point-in-time snapshot as of June 30, 2026, capturing the fund’s holdings at the top of a concentrated, levered wager on the memory ... Situational Awareness’ 13F Reveals an $11 Billion AI Bet That Unraveled in Under a Month

Investor dubbed the ‘AI stock god’ had 56% of his hedge fund invested in these two stocks before the July blow-up

At the end of the first half of 2026, on the cusp of a major correction in the sector, more than three quarters of the Situational Awareness fund was betting on just five stocks, all of which were, in essence, one big bet on AI.