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The losses came from exposure to Situational Awareness, the AI-focused hedge fund run by the former OpenAI researcher, and to tech names in the same selloff. Situational Awareness fire-sold most of its equity portfolio to Citadel after the drawdown triggered margin calls. Jane Street still shows more than $40B in net trading revenue year to date, already exceeding its full-year 2025 revenue, and at least one outlet disputes the loss framing against that record. CNBC
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