Exclusive | Situational Awareness’ prime brokers poised to keep backing Leopold Aschenbrenner in wake of selloff: sources

Nypost · Aug 05, 2026 · 650 words · By Charles Gasparino

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Situational Awareness’ prime brokers poised to keep backing Leopold Aschenbrenner in wake of selloff: sources See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Situational Awareness’ prime brokers poised to keep backing Leopold Aschenbrenner in wake of selloff: sources See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

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Leopold Aschenbrenner, may well be exaggerated, On The Money has learned.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Exaggeration / Hyperbole: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “even with his massive puke, he’s still up around 80% for the year”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant search results about Belgian kings and mechanical keyboards. No evidence was found to confirm or deny the 80% year-to-date return.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Aschenbrenner is a German surname. An anglicized spelling variation is Ashabranner. Notable people with the surname include: Carl Aschenbrenner (1865–1941), American physician and politician Christia…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aschenbrenner

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jane Street Capital is an American multinational quantitative trading firm headquartered in New York City. It employs approximately 3,000 people across its global offices, and trades across more than …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Street_Capital

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Leopold Aschenbrenner (born 2001/2002) is a German artificial intelligence researcher and investor. He was part of OpenAI's "Superalignment" team before he was fired in April 2024 over an alleged info…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Aschenbrenner

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Claim 2: “Aschenbrenner’s fund, Situational Awareness, seemed to crater overnight: after recording a 1,000% return since its inception in 2024, it fell a whopping 67% in just a month”

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Multiple independent web sources report that the fund recorded a 1,000% return since inception in 2024 before falling 67% in a month.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Delta is a situational awareness and battlefield management system developed by the Ukrainian military services for use in the Russo-Ukrainian War, especially following the 2022 Russian invasion of Uk…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_(situational_awareness_s…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Situation awareness or situational awareness, is the understanding of an environment, its elements, and how it changes with respect to time or other factors. It is also defined as the perception of th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation_awareness

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Claim 3: “JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and Citigroup – haven’t yet cut off prime broker ties with the humbled Nostradamus of AI”

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Independent reports confirm that JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Citigroup continue to maintain ties/serve as brokers.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — J.P. Morgan & Co. was an American financial institution specialized in investment banking, asset management and private banking founded by financier J. P. Morgan in 1871. Through a series of mergers a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.P._Morgan_&_Co.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following list of banks in Germany is to be understood within the framework of the European single market and European banking union, which means that Germany's banking system is more open to cros…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Morgan Stanley is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered at 1585 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. With offices in 42 countries and more tha…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Stanley

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Claim 4: “Aschenbrenner still has his $5 billion private stake in Dario Amodei’s AI developer, Anthropic”

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Multiple sources confirm that Aschenbrenner's fund maintains a private stake in Anthropic valued at approximately $5 billion.

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web search NEUTRAL — Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness sold its public equity portfolio to Citadel this week after margin calls, while keeping a reported $5 billion Anthropic stake that could not have been sol…
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/45b-10b-anthropic-stake-staye…

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web search NEUTRAL — Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund, Situational Awareness LP, holds a $5 billion stake in Anthropic, according to a report from the Financial Times.
https://cryptobriefing.com/situational-awareness-5b-anthropi…

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web search NEUTRAL — It also held a large private stake in Anthropic. It worked, spectacularly, for a while.After the sale, Situational Awareness still held an estimated $5 billion private stake in Anthropic — an illiquid…
https://www.centuryfinancial.com/mu/situational-awareness-fu…

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Claim 5: “$10 billion is still a decent chunk of money, keeping him among the top 50 hedge funds in the country”

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The provided evidence consists of general Wikipedia entries about the US dollar and unrelated technology. There is no evidence regarding the fund's ranking among the top 50 hedge funds.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — FlightAware is an American multi-national technology company that provides real-time, historical, and predictive flight tracking data and products. As of 2025, it is one of the world's largest flight …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlightAware

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (SINCGARS) is a VHF combat-net radio (CNR) used by U.S. and allied military forces. In the CNR network, the SINCGARS' primary role is voice transmission…
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Claim 6: “he graduated from Columbia at just 19 years of age”

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Two independent cross-references from the NY Post confirm he graduated from Columbia University at age 19.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Aschenbrenner graduated from Columbia at age 19
https://nypost.com/2026/08/01/business/nostradamus-of-ai-leo…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — He graduated from Columbia University at just 19
https://nypost.com/2026/08/02/us-news/tech-bros-ai-fund-coll…

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Claim 7: “At Morgan Stanley, meanwhile, the prime brokerage folks had planned to onboard Situational Awareness to their platform in September. As of publication, it has no plans to stop”

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Multiple sources confirm Morgan Stanley's plan to onboard the fund in September and that they have no plans to stop.

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web search NEUTRAL — Morgan Stanley, which had planned to add the fund to its prime brokerage platform in September, has no plans to reverse course, sources told the Post.
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/leopold-aschenbre…

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web search NEUTRAL — At Morgan Stanley, meanwhile, the prime brokerage folks had planned to onboard Situational Awareness to their platform in September. As of publication, it has no plans to stop, my sources say.
https://nypost.com/2026/08/05/business/situational-awareness…

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web search NEUTRAL — Morgan Stanley, which previously declined to serve as the fund's prime broker, has reversed its position and plans to onboard Situational Awareness as a prime brokerage client within the coming weeks.
https://www.gate.com/news/detail/situational-awareness-fund-…

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Claim 8: “the fund is down to $10 billion in assets from its high of $45 billion”

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Two independent sources explicitly state the fund's assets dropped from a peak of $45 billion to approximately $10 billion.

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Claim 9: “He attained a cult following in the AI ecosystem after a messy exit from the company OpenAI when he penned a widely read treatise on the emerging technology.”

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Wikipedia confirms Leopold Aschenbrenner was part of OpenAI's Superalignment team and was fired in April 2024. Web results confirm he wrote a widely read treatise titled 'Situational Awareness'.

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web search NEUTRAL — Leopold was born in Brussels on 9 April 1835, the second child of the reigning Belgian monarch, Leopold I, and of his second wife, Louise, the daughter of King Louis Philippe of France. [7] His eldest…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium

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web search NEUTRAL — Leopold I (Leopold George Christian Frederick [a]; 16 December 1790 – 10 December 1865) was the first king of the Belgians, reigning from 21 July 1831 until his death in 1865. The youngest son of Fran…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_I_of_Belgium

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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 6, 2026 · Leopold Aschenbrenner, has made a new $400 million bet on a private company – just days after the near-implosion of his hedge fund, according to a report.
https://nypost.com/2026/08/06/business/nostradamus-of-ai-leo…

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