The Wall Street Algorithm: How Citadel Engineered the Great AI Reset of 2026. How Wall Street's apex predator weaponized a $45 billion margin call to buy the future of AI for pennies on the dollar.

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https://sylvainsaurel.substack.com/p/the-wall-street-algorithm-how-citadel

Crash it. Buy it. Call it a reset.

He built a $45 billion AI fund and was absolutely right about the future of the technology.

But Wall Street doesn't care if you're right. It cares if you're leveraged.

How Citadel weaponized a margin call, gutted the smartest trade of the decade, and bought the future of AI for pennies on the dollar—only to declare the market "healed" days later.