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Welcome to our weekly edition of AI & Finance™!
Hello friends, to paraphrase one of my favorite characters from popular fiction, "I come to you now at the turning of the tide," and I'm talking about artificial intelligence. There's some evidence in this week's newsletter that the world is finally becoming more serious about AI, both the business world in companies' clear move to organize and modernize their use and storage of data, and in what I like to call the real world, where people are finally coming to terms with what a technology that makes the act of thinking, and organizing those thoughts, a computer-assisted, fully or partially automated task. What happens to the very human abilities to reason and think, if we have artificial intelligence to do it all, or at least most of it, for us, at what seems like it will be a very low cost? Does human intelligence have any value? We can't answer those questions here, but we can definitely help you ponder them... CHECK IT ALL OUT BELOW!
Let's talk some recent AI datapoints-and by datapoints I mean the results of mostly sponsored surveys whose results are at least somewhat debatable, if not downright unscientific. Still, they're interesting conversation fodder so we'll look at a few of them, starting with another workforce trends report... actually, this one is a "Workforce Megatrends" report from Transamerica titled "New Frontiers: Employers and the Evolving Workforce." It was the Transamerica report that found that 72% of employers are either in the process of implementing AI or plan to implement AI to "augment" their human workforce (Transamerica's language, not mine). These employers seemed to... CONTINUE HERE
If you're wondering how we stumbled into this topic, we went on a search-engine hunt through recently published AI-related papers in scientific journals and found no shortage of articles focused on different applications of deep learning algorithms, particularly within the health care and biotechnology industries. Machine learning typically involves neural networks using one or two computational layers of nodes-the filling in the artificial intelligence sandwich-to function, but machine learning is not the networks themselves, rather, the process of training AI systems with data to do something that we want them to do-to find something within the data and generate an... CONTINUE HERE
This week our announcements are led by two deals exceeding the $100 million threshold. The top reported deal, per FinSMEs, came from San Francisco-based Anysphere, the developer of automated coding assistant Cursor, which raised a $900 million round to "expand its operations and development efforts," according to its announcement. The next biggest announcement came from the agentic AI customer experience space, where Berlin-based Parloa brought in a $120 million Series C round. The top five also included companies in the maritime, lawtech and enterprise AI spaces. Smaller funding raises that did not quite make our top 5 this week included announcements from the... CONTINUE HERE
Welcome to this week's edition of AI Intelligence, where we spotlight the most viral AI developments from May 1 to May 7, 2025. From groundbreaking courtroom applications to emerging cybersecurity threats, AI continues to influence various facets of society. And we have something for everyone this week. Katy Perry made it into the top AI viral stories - another deepfake of her at the Met Gala hit the social circuit. And an "interesting" adaptation is featured this week, whereby an AI-generated image of a young man who died fatally in a road rage incident appeared in a courtroom. Visions of Tupac Shakur come... CONTINUE HERE
In this week's podcast, our dynamic AI duo - Al & Ivy - discuss the early years of investing guru Warren Buffett. The content was generated thru NotebookLM from this content source: "How Young Warren Buffett Started His Fortune" from Netnethunter.com. The content source analyzes Warren Buffett's investment strategies, particularly highlighting the discrepancy in returns between his early career and his current approach. It argues that the "cigar-butt" investing style, focused on undervalued net net stocks as taught by Benjamin Graham, yielded significantly higher percentage returns for a younger Buffett. The source suggests that while Buffett's current strategy works for managing vast sums, smaller investors have... CONTINUE HERE
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Amazon (AMZN) * Arista Networks (ANET) * AI (C3.ai) * CrowdStrike Holdings (CRWD) * Duolingo (DUOL) * iRhythm Technologies (IRTC) * Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) * NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) * Palantir Technologies (PLTR) & * Taiwan Semiconductor * Manufacturing (TSM)
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