[Leopold Agreed to Sell $3.5 Billion in Anthropic Equity Amid Margin Pressure, but the Deal Was Withdrawn the Next Day] According to The Wall Street Journal, the AI hedge fund Situational Awareness, managed by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, agreed on Wednesday night to sell approximately $3.5 billion in Anthropic equity to investors led by Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital amid margin call pressure. However, the deal was withdrawn the following morning. Ultimately, the fund chose to sell most of its public stock portfolio to Citadel to repay leverage while retaining private equity holdings such as Anthropic.