Wedding Day Crash: Internet Mocks Aschenbrenner's $45B AI Fund Collapse
ctjlewis · x · 2026-08-01
Polymarket revealed that Leopold Aschenbrenner’s $45 billion AI fund began collapsing just as guests arrived for his wedding in California.
Internet users found the situation hilarious, specifically mocking the choice to write the amount out as $45,000,000,000.00 with all the zeroes, forcing readers to manually count them to grasp the scale.
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