[2][3][5] In the email he also stated he didn't feel a "palpable sense of urgency" on the trading floor and mentioned that investors were wondering if staff joined the firm "so they can enjoy not working too hard".

Balyasny Asset Management and Citadel LLC were hedge fund rivals as they were both based in Chicago at the time and spent a lot of money in a talent war where they would both try to poach each other's employees.

[10] In June 2023, the firm released its own version of ChatGPT to its employees, and in January 2024, it was reported that the hedge fund was building an AI equivalent of a senior analyst.

The firm sent a letter to investors reassuring them that no improper activity had been discovered, and that it had decided to close the satellite office and terminate the individual involved.

[15][16] In 2010, it was reported that Balyasny Asset Management had been added to a group of firms being examined in a wide-ranging investigation into insider trading led by the government, relating to the Galleon case.

[17] Mark Adams, an analyst at the firm, was suspected of passing on insider information about EMC Corporation to Steven Fortuna, a money manager who pled guilty in the Galleon Group case.