The Leverage Brief: Ken Griffin and the Credential Shock

Citadel’s CEO says AI is compressing finance work once reserved for master’s and PhD-level talent, which weakens one of the safest assumptions in white-collar careers.

The Waiting Economy

Everyone is waiting for rates to fall, prices to settle, and confidence to return. But waiting has a cost too.

The Leverage Brief: Claude Moves Down-Market

Anthropic’s small business release shows that the next AI battleground is not the enterprise boardroom. It is the businesses that never had an AI team in the first place.

The Leverage Brief: Claude Moves Into Legal Work

Anthropic’s new legal connectors show where AI is headed next: not just better chat, but deeper access to the systems professionals already use.

Claude Code Changed Engineering. Finance Is Next.