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The verified spine (CNBC, 2026-07-30)

• Situational Awareness (Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund) sold its entire public stock book, marketed prior to Thursday's (07-30) open, reportedly to a single large investment firm (identity unknown).
• Peak AUM ~$45B at the start of July (from ~$225M at late-2024 launch); ~$20–24B cited by mid-July reports.
• Longs named: SK Hynix, Nebius, SanDisk, Micron, CoreWeave — "all four [of the Q1 top holdings] down more than 35% this month." Shorts named: Adobe and other software — moved sharply against the fund as software rallied.
• Prime brokers BofA, Goldman, JPMorgan working with the fund to meet margin calls / unwind in an orderly way; GS and JPM reported issuing margin calls to funds with concentrated AI positions.
• FT (via Bloomberg): the fund is seeking to raise fresh capital; some LPs offered a chance to buy assets directly. Anthropic private stake disposition unclear; fund still operating, "situation fluid."

Weaker-sourced figures (secondary aggregators — use with attribution only)

• Leverage "as high as 4x" (Crypto Briefing — not corroborated by CNBC/FT text we could read).
• "+439% net since inception through June" CORRECTED same day (2026-07-30-paradislabs-situational-awareness-arc verifica