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Hello, friends, welcome again to our AI & Finance newsletter, where we fit a full week of AI and financial services news into one little email in your inbox. Not bad! This week, we start out with a look at the latest on the internet's legitimacy crisis, which doesn't even take into account the tidal wave of AI-generated content. AI Education looks in on how we're teaching businesses-and technology-to make better decisions, more efficiently. It took a venture capital round of at least $200 million to crack our Top 5 this time around, and we also have a bigger-than-usual technology news week covered in our AI Intelligence column. Our newsletter is rounded out by some wealth management recruitment commentary from the ever ebuillient Jeff Nash, and then we challenged ChatGPT to write a longform (for the internet, anyway) column about Jamie Dimon's recent media appearances in which he said that, moving forward, J.P. Morgan would probably favor hiring technology and technologists over traditional bankers. There's a lot of material to get to... CHECK IT ALL OUT BELOW!
What would Holden Caulfield think of the internet of 2026? It's full of phonies! Welcome to another AI & Finance, where we're once again addressing the growing struggle with authenticity and value in the face of a generated digital reality. Exhibit A this week is Lane Brown's "The Feed is Fake," which appeared last week on Vulture. Brown, citing several examples, paints a picture of an internet and social media landscape that is overwhelmingly, perhaps 90% fake-and not because of artificial intelligence. In fact, AI doesn't really come into play in Brown's piece until the last paragraph. Instead, Brown focuses on the... CONTINUE HERE
As a schoolchild, there were many afternoons where we would come home asking ourselves why we made the decisions we had made that day. Especially after making some really, really bad ones. Like the underground newspaper we distributed that printed columns making fun of the high school principal's manhood alongside recipes from the Anarchist's Cookbook. Not our best idea in the world, even though our publishing career was off to a rousing start. We somehow avoided expulsion thanks to a more lenient pre-Columbine world. We don't worry so much about our decisions these days-but a whole host of organizations are revisiting how... CONTINUE HERE
This week our overall AI venture capital activity accelerated yet again from prior weeks, with all five of our announcements coming in over $200 million. The biggest announcement, per FinSMEs, came from London-based Recursive Superintelligence, which raised a $650 million round to "secure large-scale compute infrastructure, expand its global research operations, and deploy its first "Level 1" autonomous training system ahead of a public launch in mid-2026," according to its announcement. Recursive Superintelligence creates AI that automates machine learning research, independently altering its own neural network, refining training algorithms and managing evaluation without human oversight. Our second-place announcement was from Palo Alto, Calif... CONTINUE HERE
The artificial intelligence industry experienced another transformative week as frontier model developers, semiconductor firms, cloud providers and policymakers accelerated the global race for AI dominance. This week featured major developments involving OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and the Trump administration, highlighting growing tensions between innovation, infrastructure demand, commercialization and regulation. Massive fundraising rounds, government debates over AI oversight, breakthroughs in reasoning systems and escalating compute competition all underscored how quickly AI is reshaping technology, finance and geopolitics. Anthropic reportedly entered discussions to rent server infrastructure powered by custom AI chips designed by Microsoft, a potentially major shift in the AI hardware market. The move... CONTINUE HERE
In 2025, over 11,000 experienced financial advisors (those with 3-plus years in the industry) switched firms. This represents a 16% increase from the previous year, and I believe it is likely an indication of future trends as attrition from the wirehouse channel in favor of the independent model continues apace. Whether introducing new affiliation options, business models and deal structures or leveraging capital infusions from PE backers to build out infrastructure and develop proprietary tech, independent firms, particularly RIAs, are proving to be more nimble, dynamic and advisor-centric than traditional wirehouses. Breakaways, both individuals and teams, have their own reasons for making a... CONTINUE HERE
When Jamie Dimon speaks about the future of banking, Wall Street listens carefully. We don't always do so here at AI & Finance, but his latest comments about artificial intelligence and hiring may prove to be among the most consequential labor-market warnings the financial services industry has heard in years. In interviews and appearances this week, Dimon, the longtime chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, said the bank expects to hire "more AI people and fewer bankers" as automation reshapes how work is performed across the institution. The remarks landed at a moment when banks, fintech firms and software companies are increasingly confronting a... CONTINUE HERE
Source: thefinancials.com | Updated every 30 minutes, M-F during market hours
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