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In today’s Daily Report:

• 🏦The AI-Focused Hedge Fund That Manages $1.5 Billion

• 🦺Stopping Factory Accidents Before They Even Start

• 🛠Trending Tools

• 🥪Brief Bites

• 💰Funding Frontlines

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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AI & INVESTING

🏦The AI-Focused Hedge Fund That Manages $1.5 Billion

A 23-year-old former OpenAI researcher has reportedly raised more than $1.5 billion for his new hedge fund focused on AI-related investments.

Key Details:

• Leopold Aschenbrenner was part of OpenAI’s Superalignment Team. He focused on Weak-to-Strong Generalization (W2SG): when a less powerful AI model (i.e., “weak supervisor”) guides a more powerful AI model (i.e., “strong supervisor”) to ensure alignment with human values.

• He was fired for voicing his concerns about OpenAI’s safety practices and leaking sensitive internal documents to colleagues for feedback on how to address those concerns.

• Despite having no professional investing experience, he launched Situational Awareness LP (“SALP”): a San Francisco-based hedge fund that now manages over $1.5 billion.

• His strategy involves investing in industries poised to benefit from AI developments, which include the semiconductor, infrastructure, and power sectors. He also makes small bets against companies that might suffer from AI advancements, such as stock media giant Shutterstock.

Why It’s Important:

• “SALP” achieved 47% gains in the first half of this year, even after management fees and performance costs. In that same period, the S&P 500 Index rose roughly 6.2%, with dividends included.

• “SALP” massively outperformed the stock market. The hedge fund’s early success signals how seriously corporations, institutions, and governments are taking AI disruption. However, it’s crucial to understand that current market conditions play a significant role. These strong gains are partly because we’re in a bullish market.

🩺 PULSE CHECK

ARCHETYPE AI

🦺Stopping Factory Accidents Before They Even Start

Archetype AI is shaking up manufacturing by turning mountains of sensor data into smart, speedy, and actionable insights that keep factory floors safer.

Key Details:

• Manufacturing facilities run on sensor data: information collected by a sensor. For example, a microphone collects sound information. Millions of sensors operate across factory floors, capturing everything from vibrations, temperature, and humidity to equipment performance.

• Humans have a unique ability to connect what we sense (e.g., sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch) with the situation around us to quickly understand what’s happening.

• AI Systems struggle with this, and it only becomes more challenging as the number of sensors, locations, and events increases. For example, an AI System with just two binary sensors generates 1,536 possible scenarios, and adding just one more binary sensor increases that number to 24,576 possible scenarios.

• “Newton AI” is an AI System that predicts how physical objects move by learning complex physics principles from sensor data. In simpler terms, it learns how different signals from multiple sensors relate to each other across time and space, allowing it to understand what’s happening and predict what might happen next.

• “Lenses” converts the raw data from “Newton AI” into practical, user-friendly findings for specific scenarios. For instance, it can analyze factory floors to predict potential safety risks and trigger alerts or alarms to intervene.

Why It’s Important:

• Operational excellence in manufacturing is dependent on maintaining safe working conditions and preventing costly equipment failures. Despite this, up to 90% of sensor data collected from factory floors goes to waste.

• If factories can leverage this sensor data to prevent accidents and reduce machine malfunctions, it means safer workplace conditions, better quality products, and faster delivery times for consumers.

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🛠TRENDING TOOLS

📸Shotva turns your screenshots into works of art.

🛒X-Design is an AI-powered photo editing studio for marketing.

🌶️Pepper AI organizes your meetings and manages your schedule.

🗄️Finlens helps founders and accountants with financial workflows.

💻YouWare lets you build, share, and get feedback on your vibe code.

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🥪BRIEF BITES

Roblox open-sourced “Sentinel,” which helps detect and filter inappropriate messages to prevent child endangerment.

Microsoft released “Copilot 3D,” a new AI-powered tool that converts static images into 3D creations suitable for rendering, printing, or incorporating.

Google developed “Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant (CMO-DA),” which aims to assist NASA’s astronauts with medical procedures during extended space missions.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman held a “Reddit Q&A” following the polarizing rollout of GPT-5, which featured technical glitches, low usage rate limits, and the abrupt removal of the beloved GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”).

💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

• Tracelight raised a $3.6M Seed Round to make you superhuman within Excel.

• Perle secured a $9M Seed Round to train data you can trust, at the speed you need.

• Datumo closed a $15.5M Series B to provide high-quality, labeled datasets to build smarter AI.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• Roblox (San Mateo, CA): Software Engineer Intern, Summer 2026

• NVIDIA (Westford, MA): ASIC Design Engineer, Entry-Level

• TikTok (San Jose, CA): Frontend Engineer, Ads Platform, Mid-Level

• Anthropic (Seattle, WA): Capacity Engineer, Compute, Senior-Level

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