
Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness resurfaces in the options market with bets on AI-linked names
Hedge fund Situational Awareness, led by AI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, has re-entered public markets via options in AMD, Bloom Energy, CoreWeave, SK Hynix, SanDisk and the Roundhill Memory ETF, after assets collapsed from over $45B to about $10B in July. It’s unclear whether new money is coming in or if the activity uses remaining capital, and private stakes like Anthropic remain amid the AI-driven stock rout and a fire-sale unwind to Citadel.













