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.
Somebody spent $96M on calls expiring in two weeks on AI stocks, and X thinks it’s Situational Awareness’ Leopold Aschenbrenner.
CoreWeave joined the prestigious Nasdaq 100 index in June, and retirement savers have been losing money on its stock ever since.
AI safety evaluator METR denies taking Anthropic money, while shared funders, free tokens, and revolving staff complicate that tidy defense.
CNBC revealed on Friday that Leopold Aschenbrenner was buying AI equities again. By Monday, every one of his six stocks was falling.
Anthropic worker Evan Hubinger, who used to work at Ripple, went viral after claiming there’s a 10% chance AI could destroy humanity.