Iain Dunning

Recent appearances

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  Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn | Odd Lots

  June 05, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Podcasts

  Today's episode, which was recorded at our recent live show at New York's City Winery, follows up on a conversation we had with Iain Dunning, head of AI at Hudson River Trading, last year, in which we talked about how his firm uses AI. Now, some seven months later, we follow up on how one of the biggest market makers around is deploying this technology. We talk about the price of memory, bottlenecks in compute, how much HRT employees are actually spending on tokens, why the firm might develop its own chips, as well as AI-induced delirium. Chapters: 00:00:00 - GPU Infrastructure Constraints…

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  Bloomberg Invest: Hudson River Trading's Iain Dunning on AI Upskilling

  March 03, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Podcasts

  Iain Dunning, Hudson River Trading Head of AI, discusses how the firm is using AI to look for and generate alpha, upskill workers, improve effiency, and more. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Tim Stenovec and Carol Massar from the Bloomberg Invest conference in New York City.  Disrupting jobs, fueling a data center boom, even killing off this em dash—artificial intelligence is the conversation policymakers, and the rest of us, just can’t escape. That’s especially the case in Washington, where spending on federal AI influence hit an all-time high last year. Lobbying firms reported a record $37.2 mill…

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  How Hudson River Trading Actually Uses AI | Odd Lots

  October 31, 2025 · 📺 Bloomberg Podcasts

  Unfortunately, it doesn't seem as though you can get great stock picks just by going to ChatGPT and asking it to recommend some investments. And yet financial firms of all sorts — including trading firms — say they're increasingly using AI. But are the tools actually being deployed? And how do these tools differ from traditional machine learning or algorithmic approaches to trading, the likes of which have been used by quant firms for decades now. On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Iain Dunning, the head of AI research at Hudson River Trading, a major US market maker. We discuss the…

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