KEN GRIFFIN WENT HOME "FAIRLY DEPRESSED" AFTER WATCHING WHAT AI IS DOING INSIDE CITADEL The Citadel CEO says AI productivity has hit a step change in just the last few months. Then he described what he saw inside his own firm: "Work that we would usually do with people with master's and PhDs in finance over the course of weeks or months is being done by AI agents over the course of hours or days." "These are not mid-tier white-collar jobs. These are extraordinarily high-skilled jobs being automated by agentic AI." "I went home one Friday, actually fairly depressed by this, because you could just see how this was going to have such a dramatic impact on society." "When you witness it in your own four walls, when you see work that used to be man-years of work being done in days or weeks, it's like, wow." The guy running one of the most sophisticated quant firms on earth just told you what's coming.

Ken Levine, the creator of BioShock, recently shared his views on new gaming hardware and pointed out that the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 and Valve’s new Steam Machine are not big technological jumps. “Look at, say, the Switch 2 and even the new Steam Machine coming out. Those are not massive technological upgrades. That wasn’t their strategy. I think people are realising we’re hitting a bit of diminishing returns with that,” Levine explained that his team avoids ultra-realistic graphics because it is expensive and does not age well, preferring stylized art that lasts longer like in BioShock. He believes real innovation comes from strong stories, artistic choices, and meaningful player decisions rather than raw power, and his new game Judas uses this approach, similar to the success of Baldur’s Gate 3. “If you have the right art director and the right approach, you don’t need to be on the cutting edge of technology all the time.”