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Hello, friends, and welcome to an active week for artificial intelligence in the financial services industry, and a somewhat truncated version of AI & Finance. No worries, however, as we manage to cover a large amount of news in what we do have to offer this time around, starting with the AI & Finance headlines column, which kicks off with some evidence that people are psychologically ready to hand over huge decisions to AI. In our top 5 venture funding raises column, you'll find that despite no $1 billion-plus deals, we had plenty of big announcements to cover. Greg Woolf is back with his first column in 2026, a worrying look at the activity on a social network built not for people, but AI agents. We also have an AI Education piece that attempts to describe attempts to move information and perform computations at speeds approaching the speed of light. This newsletter may be a bit shorter than usual, but it still packs a big punch... CHECK IT ALL OUT BELOW!
It's nice when we find some good, juicy data to help hold together our spitballs. Did we gross you out? Well, then scroll down because you'll find a long list of appealing artificial intelligence in financial services headlines in this week's AI & Finance. We dug pretty deep and unearthed a treasure trove of news, all for you. But first, what was that about spitballs? Oh yeah. A few months ago, we introduced this column with an argument that people's willingness to accept AI into their lives on the healthcare front-and we believe people will be inclined to embrace almost any technology... CONTINUE HERE
Last month Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, published an essay titled "The Adolescence of Technology," makes a point that's easy to gloss over if you're skimming for existential doom. His concern isn't that AI suddenly becomes conscious, evil, or self-aware in a sci-fi sense. It's that AI becomes human-like in behavior long before we've built the social, institutional, and governance muscles to deal with that fact. And then, a few days later, that concern stopped being theoretical. Moltbook is a social network designed for AI agents, not people. Humans can observe, but only AI can post, comment, upvote, form communities, and message one... CONTINUE HERE
Computers keep getting faster with every passing day, but the universe has a speed limit that we can't seem to break-approximately 300,000 kilometers per second, also known as the speed of light. The question then becomes, as we accelerate our computers faster and faster, how close can we get to that universal speed limit? Welcome to another AI Education, where this week we'll talk about a technology that promises to help us approach the speed limit of physical computing power in our universe: optical computing. Optical computing is related to a few topics we've covered since taking over this column ... CONTINUE HERE
We saw a total of 9 fundraising deals come in above the $100 million threshold, continuing very strong and active venture capital activity in 2026. The top reported deal, per FinSMEs, came from Toronto-based Waabi, which raised $750 million in a Series C, to "accelerate the continued advancement of Waabi's Physical AI Platform, further accelerate its commercial progress in autonomous trucking, and support expansion into robotaxis" according to its announcement. Waabi also announced a partnership with Uber. Our second announcement is from Austin, Texas-based space and defense connectivity provider CesiumAstro, which raised $470 million in a Series C of its own to "support... CONTINUE HERE
Source: thefinancials.com | Updated every 30 minutes, M-F during market hours
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