AI INVESTOR LEOPOLD ASCHENBRENNER FORCED TO UNWIND PUBLIC STOCK POSITIONS AFTER STEEP LOSSES

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Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund, Situational Awareness, was reportedly forced to sell its public equity portfolio after leveraged bets on AI infrastructure stocks and shorts against software companies moved sharply against it. Citadel agreed to acquire the public positions as the fund's prime brokers worked to raise cash and meet margin requirements, marking a major test of Aschenbrenner's concentrated AI investment thesis.