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A high-profile AI-focused hedge fund has unwinded after massive leverage and a momentum crash. Citadel has stepped in to acquire many of its publicly traded holdings while the fund holds private investments, including Anthropic. Regulators and investors watch for how this affects AI infrastructure bets and market risk.
An AI-focused hedge fund called Situational Awareness has reportedly lost about 67% in a month and sold most of its public portfolio to Ken Griffin’s Citadel. The fund’s debt-fuelled, highly leveraged bets on chipmakers and AI firms has forced the sale and has prompted Wall Street to reassess concentrated AI exposures.
Memory prices for DRAM and related chips have spiked as demand from AI-focused data centers, smartphones and consoles outpaces supply. Producers are locking up long-term memory supply, raising costs for consumer devices and cloud services. Apple is testing CXMT memory amid broader price pressures.
Jane Street says it has reduced risk exposure in AI-related trades after a July downturn that hit AI-heavy holdings, with the firm aiming to be more selective about risk in its portfolios.
Fujifilm has opened a new fabrication building in Japan to triple production of post-CMP cleaners used in semiconductor wafer processing, addressing supply bottlenecks triggered by global data-center expansion.
Samsung and SK Hynix shares fall more than 3% as DeepSeek says it has reduced high-bandwidth memory in its AI models, dimming investors’ optimism after July’s rebound and amid rate-hike fears.
President Donald Trump has dismissed calls from AI leaders to slow frontier development, attacked Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Truth Social and called safety concerns a "hoax" and a "sick conspiracy." His posts have coincided with a sell-off in AI-linked stocks and intensified debate over regulation and US competition with China.
Investors are recalibrating as AI executives urge caution on frontier development, sparking wide stock swings. A mix of weaker chip profits, higher oil prices and looming rate hikes are shaping a safer, slower AI era, while the potential IPOs and data-centre demand face renewed scrutiny.
Global AI semiconductor stocks have surged on AI infrastructure demand, but fresh data show a pullback in memory-chip names as CXMT’s advances raise questions about yield, scale and margins. Investors are reassessing pricing power and the durability of AI-driven demand.
Citizen Lab has published a report showing an Israeli ad-tech firm, Discover‑Tech, sold targeted ads that routed millions of devices to servers run by mercenary spyware companies including Candiru. Researchers have confirmed the technique infected 45 Al Jazeera devices in 2024–25 and have shown Discover‑Tech ads reached government, military and critical‑infrastructure networks worldwide.