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Welcome, friends, to another big week in artificial intelligence and financial services, and we have all of the most important stories here for you in this edition of AI & Finance. Perhaps the biggest AI news of the past two weeks was MIT's look into AI pilots in business, which Greg Woolf breaks down in our AI Regs & Risk column. We also discuss the aches and pains of modern knowledge work in AI & Finance headlines column, look at the far-out world of biological computing, and Al & Ivy offer another timely podcast discussion, this one on Venezuela-it's great headphone listening for the treadmill or a long late-summer walk in the park. On the other hand, AI venture capital funding cooled off for the period around the Labor Day holiday. But, as our AI Intelligence column reveals, there was still a lot brewing, especially in some of the controversies surrounding AI... CHECK IT ALL OUT BELOW!
Sometimes we feel like we've spent too much of our life in front of a laptop computer. Welcome to AI & Finance, where, once again, we're going to get you to a nice big list of artificial intelligence in financial services stories-but first, we'd like to talk about our aches and pains. These are not the aches and pains of decades of manual labor. we have not been digging ditches, breaking rocks or harvesting crops. We've spent most of our working life in front of a computer for one reason or another and, like many people squarely in the middle of middle... CONTINUE HERE
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MIT's State of AI in Business 2025 report sent shockwaves through markets with its claim that 95% of enterprise AI pilots are failing. Investors seized on the headline. Analysts called it proof that the "AI bubble" is popping. AI-adjacent stocks like Nvidia and Palantir slid in response. But what does "failure" really mean? The study's definition was narrow: unless a company publicly reported measurable productivity or P&L impact, the pilot was counted as a bust. That's not the same as saying AI doesn't work, it's saying most organizations haven't crossed the chasm from the experimental Phase 0 into Phase 1 operational efficiencies. AI... CONTINUE HERE
Can mankind create a better computer than nature? Welcome to AI Education, where this week we're taking a step out into the weirder side of technology. We'll be exploring biological computing, where living cells, proteins and tissues are used as computers-marking another connection between high-level computing and life itself. Let's keep in mind that there's already a biological component to most computing-most computers aren't completely autonomous, there's almost always a person interfacing with the machine via a keyboard and mouse or with voice commands. We should also acknowledge first that artificial intelligence itself was born out of attempts to build machines... CONTINUE HERE
This week's more muted venture capital funding announcements are led by a single transaction exceeding the $100 million threshold. The top reported deal, per FinSMEs, came from Mexico City-based Kapital Bank, which raised a $100 million Series C in part to "accelerate the build-out of its financial ecosystem designed to maximize SMB performance across" Latin America, according to its announcement. Our second-place announcement came from the healthcare space, where New York-based Predoc brought in a $30 million Series A. The top five also included companies in the automated call center, AI inference and AI teammates sectors. Smaller funding raises that did not quite... CONTINUE HERE
This past week, AI edged further into our lives-transforming fast food, shaking up policy, and confronting raw consequences. From unsettling safety concerns to global summits and education experiments, the story of AI remains as rich and conflicted as ever. AI Back in the Drive-Thru-With a Twist-Taco Bell and McDonald's quietly reintroduced AI-powered voice ordering at drive-thrus. But after viral prank orders (like one for 18,000 cups of water), they're doubling down on human oversight to keep both service and sanity in check. Chatbot Safety Reckoning-A string of alarming incidents-including lawsuits alleging that ChatGPT encouraged tragic harm-have pushed... CONTINUE HERE
In this video, Cindy Taylor of Digital Wealth News welcomes Ryan George, CMO of Docupace, to preview their role at the Big Sky AI Forum. Ryan shares how AI is transforming wealth management's overlooked back office-reducing errors, unifying systems, and enabling scale. He also introduces Docupace's bold agentic AI platform to automate up to 80% of manual tasks... CLICK HERE TO VIEW
In this week's podcast, Al & Ivy unpack the roots and realities of Venezuela's ongoing crisis-exploring its political origins, humanitarian toll, and international dimensions. The content was generated through NotebookLM from this source: "Venezuela: The Rise and Fall of a Petrostate" published by the Council on Foreign Relations. The provided text offers a comprehensive overview of Venezuela's collapse, tracing how the nation-once one of Latin America's wealthiest oil producers-fell into political and economic freefall. It highlights the rise of Hugo Chávez in 1999, his use of oil wealth to fund populist social programs, and the centralization of power under his... CONTINUE HERE
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