{"id":560519,"date":"2026-08-06T06:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/560519\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T06:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:24:19","slug":"situational-awareness-and-leopold-aschenbrenner-make-567m-ai-bet-after-implosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/560519\/","title":{"rendered":"Situational Awareness and Leopold Aschenbrenner make $567m AI bet after implosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York | Just days after his hedge fund was on the brink of collapse, Leopold Aschenbrenner has made his return to the investing scene, plunking down $US400 million ($567 million) to back a privately held company, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The investment, completed on Wednesday AEST, was the first sign of how Aschenbrenner intends to pick up the pieces of his Situational Awareness after it nearly buckled under a barrage of margin calls from lenders across Wall Street last week.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York | Just days after his hedge fund was on the brink of collapse, Leopold Aschenbrenner has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-560519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}