Leopold Aschenbrenner, the Wall Street wunderkind whose hedge fund imploded in late July, placed huge bets on two AI stocks in the lead-up to the disaster. Aschenbrenner’s firm, Situational Awareness, owned a $5.7 billion stake in SanDisk and a $5.6 billion stake in Micron at the end of June, its quarterly portfolio update revealed on
In the high-flying world of AI investing, sometimes you get the bull, and sometimes you get the horns. After a long ride on the bull, Gen Z hedge-funder Leopold Aschenbrenner found out last week how quickly things can shift, even for a whiz kid once called the “Nostradamus of AI.” It’s a story that was
