AI is coming for complexity … and trading depends on it
While AI may be able to recreate interfaces, the value is in messaging networks, low-latency data, and unique information flows.
What happens when some smart arse rebuilds a functional equivalent of a $24,000-a-year Bloomberg Terminal using Perplexity Computer for roughly $200 a month? Cue mass disruption hysteria. Investors and middle-aged men and women were glued to their trading screens across Wall Street, trembling at the thought of yet another nimble AI upstart taking on an entrenched incumbent.
Let’s slow down. Bloomberg is deeply embedded in the plumbing of global finance, and it generates tens of billions in
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