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WSJ: Wall Street Sniffed Out Situational Awareness Selling Anthropic Stake at 20% Discount

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Summary

The Wall Street Journal details how Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness fund tried to raise cash by shopping a slice of its $5B Anthropic stake at roughly a 20% discount, tipping counterparties that the leveraged AI-infrastructure book was in trouble. Traders quickly told the WSJ the fund was 'being hunted,' and Citadel ultimately absorbed the bulk of the public-equity portfolio.