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Hello, friends, we spent another week watching a wave of momentum build in artificial intelligence news, particularly in the financial services sector, as you'll see in a very long rundown of AI & Finance headlines below. Some late-breaking news moved us closer to fully compliant, robust generative financial AI, but in our Regs & Risks column, Greg Woolf warns that regulators aren't yet comfortable with industry adoption of cloud-based AI. We also have the scoop on another huge batch of AI venture capital fundraising announcements led by two deals exceeding the $1 billion mark, a look at embodied AI in our AI Education column, and, as usual, Al & Ivy wrap things up with a highly relevant discussion on U.S. government shutdowns, which maybe is not as much fun as their "banana ball" discussion last week, but as we sit on this Friday morning more than two days into the current shutdown, it is as timely as can be... CHECK IT ALL OUT BELOW!
Growing financial companies might want to consider making artificial intelligence technology their next big hire. Welcome to AI & Finance where we're going to run down an active week of artificial intelligence in financial services headlines, but first, we'd like to discuss the strong argument that the best way to grow and scale a financial business right now is at least partially through more and better technology rather than merely expanding headcount. In the headlines below, you'll see many huge businesses and institutions innovating with AI and applying it to solve some of the financial world's biggest challenges. However, AI is also available... CONTINUE HERE
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Before financial institutions can fully embrace generative AI, regulators are sending a clear warning: not so fast. The Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, and FINRA have all raised concerns about the risks of sending sensitive financial data into external, cloud-based AI models. This isn't just about compliance checkboxes. It's a fundamental reassessment of risk and control that is reshaping how firms think about AI adoption. Cloud-based AI platforms such as OpenAI or Google Gemini deliver remarkable performance. But regulators are increasingly concerned that these systems introduce risks that financial institutions cannot fully mitigate. As MIT's Dr. Sandra Black has documented, the black box... CONTINUE HERE
It's October, the month where everything starts to get creepy, so why not talk about bodies. No, that's not a comment on our physical appearance, and we're not taking a trip to the morgue-we're curious about these mounds of flesh that we all animate with thoughts and feelings. Well, what if we were to animate something body-like with artificial intelligence? Welcome to another AI Education, where today, we're going to talk about embodied AI, which is not exactly what you might expect from our introduction. To us, at least, and at first blush, embodied AI sounds like we're putting artificial intelligence into... CONTINUE HERE
This week's venture capital funding announcements accelerated from recent momentum, with all five transactions in excess of the $100 million threshold, and two crossing the $1 billion mark, including one record-breaking funding round. The top reported deal, per FinSMEs, came from Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Cerebras Systems, which raised a massive $1.1 billion Series G in part to "expand its technology portfolio with continued inventions in AI processor design, packaging, system design and AI supercomputers," according to its announcement. Both of our top funding raises occurred in the AI infrastructure space. In fact, it was a tie for first place, and our second announcement comes... CONTINUE HERE
This week's AI wave rippled across media, marketing, and monetization-with creators, platforms, and regulators all scrambling to keep pace. From Meta's remix-friendly video feed to OpenAI's new content push, tensions over IP, data, and influence framed the debates. Meta leans all in on generative video with its new Vibes feed of AI-made clips, fueling fresh debates over content quality and creative agency. OpenAI launches Sora, a short-video app blending AI generation and social sharing-and triggering outcry from studios over opt-out copyright rules.Meta will mine AI chats for ad targeting, starting December, linking conversational data into its content and advertising graph. Disney... CONTINUE HERE
In this week's spotlight, we turn to Washington and the risks of a looming U.S. government shutdown-how political gridlock could ripple through workers, markets, and the broader economy. Synopsized here as an overview of the new Al & Ivy podcast episode "Navigating the 2025 U.S. Government Shutdown Risks," the discussion explores why the stakes are higher this year and what history can teach us about market and policy reactions. The analysis, based on TD Economics ("U.S. Government Shutdown Risks: 2025 Edition"), explains that shutdowns occur when Congress fails to pass the twelve annual appropriation bills or a continuing resolution by October 1st... CONTINUE HERE
Source: thefinancials.com | Updated every 30 minutes, M-F during market hours
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