{"id":1025746,"date":"2026-08-03T08:21:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025746"},"modified":"2026-08-03T09:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:39:20","slug":"ex-openai-researcher-built-a-45-billion-ai-hedge-fund-it-all-melted-down-during-his-wedding-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/03\/ex-openai-researcher-built-a-45-billion-ai-hedge-fund-it-all-melted-down-during-his-wedding-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-OpenAI researcher built a $45 billion AI hedge fund \u2013 It all melted down during his wedding week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEveryone is now talking about AI, but few have the faintest glimmer of what is about to hit them,\u201d wrote former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner in his 2024 career-defining essay. Irony hit him even harder this week. <\/p>\n<p>The German-born artificial intelligence researcher and investor went viral ahead of his own wedding weekend for an entirely unrelated and possibly the worst reason. The 24-year-old, who was once part of OpenAI\u2019s \u201cSuperalignment\u201d team, had become the face of an AI-themed hedge fund \u2013 named Situational Awareness \u2013 in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEveryone is now talking about AI, but few have the faintest glimmer of what is about to hit them,\u201d wrote former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner in his 2024 career-defining essay. Irony hit him even harder this week. The German-born artificial intelligence researcher and investor went viral ahead of his own wedding weekend for an entirely unrelated and possibly the worst reason. The 24-year-old, who was once part of OpenAI\u2019s \u201cSuperalignment\u201d team, had become the face of an AI-themed hedge fund \u2013 named Situational Awareness \u2013 in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025770,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025746\/revisions\/1025770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}