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Situational Awareness AI Fund Posts 67% July Loss as Aschenbrenner Vows to Continue

8/2/2026

Single-thesis funds carry a compounding asymmetry that turns deep losses into extended recovery problems: the further a fund falls, the larger the percentage gain required just to return to the prior high-water mark.

Situational Awareness, the AI-focused hedge fund managed by Leopold Aschenbrenner, recorded a 67% drawdown in July. Aschenbrenner responded with a direct communication to investors.

The structure behind a single-month 67% loss The constraint here is straightforward: a fund built on concentrated exposure to a single sector accepts, by design, high correlation to one risk factor.

Conviction in a thesis produces large upside when the thesis plays, and produces July's kind of result when it does not.

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