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OpenAI Files Confidentially For IPO, Joining SpaceX and Anthropic In Capitalizing On AI Frenzy The rush by AI companies to go public before the window closes (i.e., "market conditions" emerge) entered its final lap late on Monday, when OpenAI joined its two mega peers in filing for a blockbuster IPO that could value the ChatGPT creator at more than $1tn as it races rival Anthropic to list its shares publicly, following an imminent offering by SpaceX. OpenAI said it had confidentially submitted a draft IPO prospectus to the US Securities and...

Situational Awareness Returns With $400M Investment After Nearly Collapsing Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, Situational Awareness, the hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, reportedly invested $400 million in a privately held company days after it nearly collapsed under margin calls. The fund invested $100 million in the same unnamed company in July, Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.  The latest investment was completed on Tuesday. Cointelegraph has approached Situational Awareness for comment. Assets at Situational Awareness fell about 78% in July, as an AI-stock sell-off triggered margin calls from Wall Street lenders. The...

The peace deal with Israel has proven quite controversial within Lebanon, with large scale protests in the wake of the announcement and fearing that it effectively does nothing about the ongoing Israeli invasion and occupation. The growing concern among analysts though is that the deal’s obligations to Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah are actually designed to […]