{
  "id": 19006,
  "title": "How Leopold Aschenbrenner built a $45 billion AI hedge fund — and lost most of it in days",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/07/31/how-leopold-aschenbrenner-built-a-45-billion-ai-hedge-fund-and-lost",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-07-31T20:19:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CNBC World",
    "slug": "cnbc-world",
    "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/31/leopold-aschenbrenner-situational-awareness-fund-fire-sale.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former OpenAI researcher, founded AI hedge fund Situational Awareness. The fund reached a peak of $45 billion in assets earlier this month. However, Situational Awareness experienced significant losses after forced sales of leveraged stock bets, including SK Hynix and CoreWeave, to Ken Griffin's Citadel. The fund's holdings dwindled to around $10 billion, as reported by CNBC.",
  "summary": "Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former OpenAI researcher-turned-hedge fund manager, saw a dramatic decline this week in his AI-focused fund, Situational Awareness.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": "https://urgent.news/ill/19006.png",
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        "outlet": "CNBC Technology",
        "title": "How Leopold Aschenbrenner built a $45 billion AI hedge fund — and lost most of it in days",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/07/31/how-leopold-aschenbrenner-built-a-45-billion-ai-hedge-fund-and-lost-19020",
        "published": "2026-07-31T20:19:03.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}