Traders think Leopold Aschenbrenner just bet $96M on AI options
Somebody spent $96M on calls expiring in two weeks on AI stocks, and X thinks it’s Situational Awareness' Leopold Aschenbrenner.
Aaron Wise
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Amazon’s $190B Anthropic stake has links to SBF
Amazon has $190B on its balance sheet with historical ties to effective altruism and one of its influencers, Sam Bankman-Fried.
CoreWeave down 32% since joining the Nasdaq 100
CoreWeave joined the prestigious Nasdaq 100 index in June, and retirement savers have been losing money on its stock ever since.
Celsius sues BitMEX over trades Alex Mashinsky said never happened
A $495M lawsuit against BitMEX by Celsius debtors concerns trades that CEO Alex Mashinsky claimed never happened.
Quants are paying $4,000 a month to front-run Solana trades
MEV bots by quant traders can read Solana trades before blocks exist, thanks to validators selling insider access to transaction data.
US 20-year bond auction just had its worst showing ever
Hours after Scott Bessent hailed two "successful" debt auctions, America sold 20-year bonds at their worst rate since 1986.
Viral report alleges Anthropic’s AI safety watchdog conflicted
AI safety evaluator METR denies taking Anthropic money, while shared funders, free tokens, and revolving staff complicate that tidy defense.
Strategy copycat Satsuma crashed 99%, liquidated treasury
Mark Moss’ Satsuma Technology sold all 669 of its BTC and will return £30.7M after the company crashed 99% from its 2025 peak.
— AI, Hedge funds
Leopold Aschenbrenner is back to losing money in AI stocks
CNBC revealed on Friday that Leopold Aschenbrenner was buying AI equities again. By Monday, every one of his six stocks was falling.
— Stocks
Public company insider sells outweighed buys 10-to-1 in August
Executives and insiders at US-listed companies sold $10 for every $1 worth of stock they bought in the month of August.