Right about AI, wrong about leverage: The fall of Leopold Aschenbrenner’s situational awareness

The 24-year-old AI researcher-turned-hedge fund manager was forced to sell nearly his entire public equities portfolio to Citadel after heavily leveraged AI infrastructure bets triggered margin calls. His private holdings, including a significant stake in Anthropic, remain untouched.

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