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By Katherine Burton, Sridhar Natarajan, Todd Gillespie, and Nishant Kumar
July 30, 2026 at 7:59 PM EDT
Updated on July 30, 2026 at 11:45 PM EDT
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He was hailed as the “Nostradamus” of AI — a young oracle with a bold prophecy for the future.
“Before long, the world will wake up,” Leopold Aschenbrenner, tech-seer-turned-hedge-fund-manager, predicted in 2024. This week, it did — but not in the way Aschenbrenner had foreseen.
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