Posted by Alumni from Substack
May 21, 2026
' Hey, Linas here! Every day, I break down 3 stories shaping the future of FinTech & Artificial Intelligence - plus the money movements and trends worth tracking. First time here' 380k+ FinTech and AI leaders get this daily. Join them: Three weeks ago, I published a deep dive on Leopold Aschenbrenner and Situational Awareness LP, the $225M-to-$5.5B AGI-infrastructure hedge fund that quietly became the most intellectually coherent portfolio in public markets. The thesis, in one line, is this: buy the bottlenecks of the AGI buildout, short what AI eats. Gross notional jumped from $5.52 billion to $13.68 billion, a 148% expansion in 90 days. The book went from 29 to 37 disclosed positions across 29 distinct tickers (eight names are now held on both sides simultaneously). For the first time in the fund's history, the disclosed book is net short: 38.1% long, 61.9% short. The short side is a wall of single-name puts on every Tier-1 name in the semiconductor stack: NVDA, AVGO, AMD, MU,... learn more