A profile of Leopold Aschenbrenner, who worked for SBF and OpenAI before launching Situational Awareness; Aschenbrenner married Dario Amodei's chief of staff
A 24-year-old investor was hailed as a visionary and attracted billions—before turning into Wall Street's latest cautionary tale
Sources: Situational Awareness offered part of its $5B Anthropic stake at a 20% discount and gave a 12-hour deadline as it scrambled for cash at the end of July
From whispers of an Anthropic stake sale to strange options moves, traders sensed trouble and swung into action
Sources: investor interest in Situational Awareness surged after it nearly blew up on leveraged positions; the fund says it's not accepting new capital for now
Also leveraged ETF momentum, GameStop's eBay bid, event contract tick sizes and private equity boyfriends. — Situational Awareness
Sources: Situational Awareness invested $500M, including $400M this week, into Source Foundry, a startup that plans to develop new AI chip manufacturing tools
Investment marks the latest known private-company bet by Situational Awareness after quick sale of its stock portfolio.
Sources: Situational Awareness invested $500M, including $400M this week, into Source Foundry, a startup that plans to develop new AI chip manufacturing tools
Investment marks the latest known private-company bet by Situational Awareness after quick sale of its stock portfolio.