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Hello, friends, and welcome to another big week for artificial intelligence in financial services, as you'll see from our exceptionally wide-reaching newsletter below. It was a week in which the debate over regulation of AI heated up, plans and projects for AI infrastructure move forward, and the technology continued to proliferate, especially into highly regulated industries. In our AI & Finance column, we ponder some recent commentary and research on AI in financial services, there's also a very active week in fundraising to report in our Top 5 VC column, while in AI Intelligence we have all of the latest U.S. and international AI news headlines. Also, we take a detour in two of our offerings this week: AI Education delves into one of AI's serious cybersecurity concerns, while this edition of the Al & Ivy podcast talks about the diagnosis of cancer, a very human topic that too many of us have faced, are facing or will have to face. ... CHECK IT ALL OUT BELOW!
January 2026 seems like a popular time to talk about artificial intelligence in financial services. Welcome to another AI & Finance, where we do have a lot of actual news to cover. In fact, for more than 60 weeks, we've been covering the proliferation of artificial intelligence throughout the financial industry, and now it seems like everyone has taken notice of what many AI-focused writers have been seeing for a long time now: AI needs to be talked about, there are too many questions and deeper issues at stake regarding how we live and relate to each other as people and citizens for... CONTINUE HERE
Today's artificial intelligence brings with it quite an interesting can of worms-especially when it comes to protecting information and ensuring that it provides the right answers and results to users. There's a huge technology topic that we've rarely-if ever-addressed so far in AI Education: Cybersecurity. Cybersecurity is a rapidly growing industry currently worth somewhere around $300 billion or so-yet we've barely touched it here it. This week, that's going to change, because we're going to talk about a type of cybersecurity breach that is unique to AI: The poisoned data attack, or data poisoning. Data poisoning is pretty much... CONTINUE HERE
2026's AI venture capital funding is in full swing now, with all five of our announcements coming in above the $100 million threshold. The top reported deal, per FinSMEs, came from Pittsburgh, Pa.-based Skild AI, which raised approximately $1.4 billion in its latest round. Skild AI, a robotic AI model developer, will use the funds to "continue scaling its model training and growing the future deployment of its technology across enterprise and commercial sectors," according to its announcement. Our second announcement is from San Francisco-based data analytics and AI infrastructure provider ClickHouse, which raised $400 million in a Series D to "accelerate global... CONTINUE HERE
This week's developments in artificial intelligence reinforced the transition from exploratory experimentation to structured deployment across government, industry, and regulatory domains. Institutions advanced governance frameworks, infrastructure investment, and workforce alignment as AI increasingly functions as core operational infrastructure rather than an auxiliary tool. Regulatory Convergence Accelerates: Governments and regulators formalized principles and oversight mechanisms for AI use in sensitive and high-impact sectors. Infrastructure Becomes Strategic: Sovereign compute, secure platforms, and regional innovation hubs emerged as long-term institutional priorities. Global Inclusion Gains Ground: International forums emphasized diversification, equitable participation, and shared AI development pathways. U.S. and European regulators introduced coordinated principles governing the use... CONTINUE HERE
The explosion of data in wealth management has outpaced advisors' ability to act on it - so some firms that have taken note are finally taking action. Prudential Advisors, the retail arm of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU) said Tuesday it has made important enhancements to its Advisor Leads programs, leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and data science to improve lead quality and increase conversion rates. For firms like Prudential Advisors with more than 3,000 advisors across the country, lead generation may no longer be a sales problem but an AI systems problem. The firm said AI is now embedded end-to-end in the Prudential Advisors... CONTINUE HERE
In this week's episode of the Al & Ivy (AI) Podcast, the hosts step away from geopolitics and markets to explore something far more intimate - and universal: how people confront meaning, identity, and the will to live when faced with cancer. Drawing from insights shared by Stanford Medicine, the conversation examines what cancer patients often grapple with beneath the clinical journey, and why existential questions can be as central as treatment itself. The episode centers on a core reality many patients describe: cancer doesn't just threaten the body - it disrupts one's sense of self, purpose, and future. When time becomes uncertain, familiar priorities... CONTINUE HERE
Source: thefinancials.com | Updated every 30 minutes, M-F during market hours
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