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Griffin Changes View: AI Cuts Finance Verification to Hours

7/10/2026

Summary

Story summary

Ken Griffin, who dismissed AI as garbage, said a system reproduced finance papers in hours, reshaping his view.
At Citadel’s Apex Symposium on June 2, Griffin told Raj Mahajan the AI tool cut verification time from weeks to hours.
Having not cut any jobs, Citadel’s July 4 note said AI lowers barriers for small firms, noted AI claims are merely machine-learning or optimization tools, and urged investors not to bet against America.

History

Historical Context

When the NASDAQ stock market launched in 1971, it replaced floor trading with electronic quotes, slashing trade execution from days to seconds. The SEC’s 1975 Regulation NMS mandated price-priority routing, and by 1985 the exchange processed over 1 billion orders annually, cutting costs roughly 30 %. Today, Citadel’s Apex Symposium echoes that shift as Ken Griffin cites an AI tool compressing finance-paper verification from weeks to hours, mirroring electronic market speed gains. The precedent suggests that, as with 1970s digitization, AI could reshape investment workflows, prompting regulators and firms to reassess risk controls and market access.

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Story summary

Ken Griffin, who dismissed AI as garbage, said a system reproduced finance papers in hours, reshaping his view.
At Citadel’s Apex Symposium on June 2, Griffin told Raj Mahajan the AI tool cut verification time from weeks to hours.
Having not cut any jobs, Citadel’s July 4 note said AI lowers barriers for small firms, noted AI claims are merely machine-learning or optimization tools, and urged investors not to bet against America.

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