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Leopold Aschenbrenner Returns to the Market After Situational Awareness' Rout With New AI Options Bets

Situational Awareness has begun buying options tied to several prominent AI and technology stocks, including Advanced Micro Devices, Bloom Energy, and CoreWeave.

International Business Times

AI Investor Plans to Buy Entire Galaxies With His AI Fortune for His Wife Despite Losing Billions

AI investor Leopold Aschenbrenner reportedly dreamed of buying galaxies with his future AI fortune. But his hedge fund has since suffered a major collapse and drawn SEC scrutiny.

International Business Times UK

SEC Probe Puts Wall Street Leverage Risk Back in Focus

SEC subpoenas Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Citigroup and Bank of America over margin lending to hedge fund Situational Awareness, which suffered a 67% drawdown amid an AI stock sell-off.

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The SEC Reportedly Wants To Know More About Wall Street Banks' Role In The Fall Of Situational Awareness

Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup and Bank of America have been contacted.

International Business Times

Citadel unloads over 80% of bets bought from Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness

Ken Griffin's Citadel has sold over 80% of acquired positions. These trades followed a steep loss in technology holdings for Situational Awareness. Citadel executed nearly one hundred block trades valued at over four billion dollars.

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Citadel Has Unwound Most Of The Risk From The Situational Awareness Portfolio It Bought At Discounted Prices: Report

Situational Awareness was forced to sell all of its public stock positions after seeing steep losses.

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Situational Awareness Bet Billions on Sandisk Before Imploding. The Supercycle Is Far From Over for SNDK Stock.

Situational Awareness’s multibillion-dollar bet on Sandisk highlights its conviction in the AI-driven memory boom, while the fund’s subsequent implosion raises broader questions about leverage, crowded positioning, and what comes next for SNDK investors.

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Forced Out of $5.6B in Sandisk, Leopold’s Bull Case Is Still Alive. Here’s How You Should Play It.

Sandisk's brutal July selloff was amplified by a forced hedge-fund unwind, but its latest results and long-term contracts suggest the underlying business is getting stronger and more predictable.

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25-year-old hedge fund manager who lost $35 billion in a month eyes fresh capital after AI stock selloff

Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI-focused hedge fund, Situational Awareness, lost around $35 billion in weeks after leveraged bets on AI stocks turned sour. Despite the sharp losses, the 25-year-old fund manager is seeking fresh capital from existing backers. The episode highlights the risks of concentrated portfolios, heavy leverage and conviction-driven investing.

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Aswath Damodaran shares 3 lessons investors can learn from rise and fall of Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI fund

Aswath Damodaran has shared three lessons investors can learn from the rise and fall of Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI-focused hedge fund, Situational Awareness. He cautioned against excessive leverage, highlighted the powerful role of market momentum and argued that humility and restraint can help investors avoid overconfidence and concentrated bets.

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Billionaire Ken Griffin Once Said 'If You Don't Like to Sell, Get Over It' - Here's What That Means for Traders Today

Here's what the Citadel boss said about the ugly side of making money, and the psychological lessons for everyday investors.

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JPMorgan's Dimon Is Warning About Leverage In The Market After Collapse Of Situational Awareness

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warned that high levels of leverage across financial markets have the potential of causing disruption in the markets in the future.

International Business Times

JPMorgan Was a Broker to AI Hedge Fund Situational Awareness— Now Jamie Dimon Is Warning About Hidden Leverage Risk: 'Margin Debt Is the Highest...'

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon warned that high leverage across financial markets could magnify disruptions, urging investors to be aware of hidden borrowing risks.

Benzinga

Novogratz Calls Aschenbrenner's AI Fund Collapse the 'Most Catastrophic Hedge Fund Blowup of Our Careers'

Galaxy Digital (NASDAQ:GLXY) CEO Mike Novogratz called the implosion of Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness fund “the single greatest, most catastrophic hedge fund blowup of our careers,” while suggesting the forced selling may have marked a bottom for parts of the AI trade.

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Citadel Bought Assets From Collapsed Situational Awareness At a Discount. Its Flagship Fund Had Its Best Month In Years

Citadel's flagship Wellington fund posted 5.9% returns in July, its largest in years, after the company bought assets from collapsed Situational Awareness at discounted prices.

Benzinga

Jim Cramer Called the Situational Awareness Blowup a 'Clearing Event:' Is That Why SNDK, NBIS Bounced?

Jim Cramer called the forced liquidation of Situational Awareness a "clearing event" that could mark a bottom for battered AI stocks.

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Billionaire Ken Griffin Just Saved Situational Awareness, But Here’s What a Rescue Call From Citadel Really Sounds Like — ‘I… Heard the Grim Reaper’s Scythe’

Getting rescued by Griffin comes with a steep cost, according to hedge fund manager Cliff Asness.

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Ross Gerber Invokes the Tortoise and the Hare to Explain Difference Between Investing and Betting Amid AI Fund Collapse: 'It Is About Understanding Risk'

Investor Ross Gerber said Sunday that the collapse of former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner‘s AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness was a lesson in the dangers of excessive leverage rather than a failure of the artificial intelligence investment thesis.

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With Situational Awareness AI deal, Citadel's Griffin rides to the rescue again

Citadel's founder this week reprised his role as one of Wall Street's rescue buyers, stepping in to salvage California hedge fund Situational Awareness as it buckled under souring bets on artificial intelligence stocks.

The Economic Times

AI bubble gone bust? Once a billionaire, how AI investor Leopold Aschenbrenner lost most of his hedge fund’s fortune in days

Aschenbrenner's fund, Situational Awareness, massively grew to as big as $45 billion at the beginning of July before big losses took hold, CNBC reported citing sources. The fund began to see massive losses in recent weeks as its heavyweight AI holdings like SK Hynix sharply crashed, while its short positions…

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The power couple of AI is getting married in Carmel, days after groom Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund nearly blew up

Leopold Aschenbrenner sold the bulk of his firm, Situational Awareness, to Citadel at a discount, then offered investors one-on-one calls during his honeymoon.

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A Situational Awareness Selloff, a Fed Inflation Blunder and Everything Else Moving Stocks, Bonds, and the U.S. Dollar Now

Let’s break down this week’s events in the stock, bond, and currency markets, and I’ll include my bias on price direction for each in the coming weeks.

International Business Times UK

Citadel Acquires Bulk of Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI Stock Portfolio Following Brutal Hedge Fund Sell-Off

Citadel acquires most of Situational Awareness' public equity portfolio after the hedge fund suffers losses during an AI stock downturn, highlighting the volatility in AI investments.

Benzinga

'Leopold Just Stopped Taking Calls': Inside the Week That Gutted Wall Street's Hottest AI Fund

On July 24, Leopold Aschenbrenner sent investors a letter touting returns of 439% for the year through June and 1,551% since inception.

International Business Times UK

Who Is Leopold Aschenbrenner? Ex-OpenAI Researcher Behind the $20B AI Hedge Fund's Sudden Sell-Off

Leopold Aschenbrenner's $20 billion AI hedge fund, Situational Awareness, faced a dramatic reversal, selling its public equity portfolio to Citadel amid a sharp AI market correction.

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