5 Key Insights from this week – April 13 – 2025
This Week’s Focus From Europe’s AI regulation wave to advanced Agentic systems, this week we explore more on what the future of AI in trading might look like — and what it could mean for jobs, market stability, and all-important growing regulatory scrutiny. EU Steps Up: AI Continent Action Plan Following the SEC’s statements on […]
5 Key Insights from this week – April 6 – 2025
This Week’s Musings: Global investments: The European Commission said Friday that it plans to invest $1.4 billion in advancing AI, cybersecurity and digital skills between 2025 and 2027, a bid for up-skilling that coincides with a massive investment push by the Comission into AI infrastructure. Are RobinHood taking over the world – Rex Salisbury, general partner at […]
5 Key Insights from this week – March 30 – 2025
This Week’s Musings: Regulatory Heat on AI, the Future of Models, and the Rise of Digital Agents AI continues to transform trading and investment, with models evolving beyond fundamentals and momentum to target economic moats. See more in Sigma’s This Week in FX. But as AI’s capabilities advance, so too does regulatory scrutiny. This week’s newsletter […]
5 Key Insights from this week – March 23 – 2025
What I learnt from my conversations last week on the latest on AI in trading This week’s musings cover: latest from the Regulators Improvements to data challenges Interoperability and the rise of MCP Vibe coding and AI Model Verification Regulatory Focus Intensifies Both ESMA and the SEC are stepping up their scrutiny of AI in […]
5 Key Insights from this week – March 16 – 2025
What I learnt from my conversations last week on the latest on AI in trading More on the Chinese AI arms race – Following High-Flyer, a Chinese hedge fund that effectively integrated AI into its trading strategies, other Chinese fund managers are accelerating their AI adoption. Firms such as Baiont Quant (https://www.linkedin.com/company/baiont-quant/) , Wizard Quant […]
5 Key Insights from this week – March 9 – 2025
What I learnt from my conversations last week on the latest on AI in trading DeepSeek 2 – 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝘀 landed March 6. It is an invite-only AI agent excelling in research and execution, further deepening the Chinese challenge to Silicon Valley’s AI dominance. Take a look here – https://manus.im/share/xFgpHb15vKqfRPWIs3JJPJ?replay=1 While AI Democratizes Trading Tools and […]
5 Key Insights from this week – March 2 – 2025
What I’ve learnt this week in AI The US/China AI race continues – what will this mean? OpenAI unveiled GPT-4.5, its latest and largest AI language model this week vs. DeepSeek launching 5 open-sourced code repositories this week as part of their “202502 Open-Source Week” initiative (https://github.com/deepseek-ai/open-infra-index). Chinese AI labs have narrowed the gap with U.S. […]
5 Key Insights from this week – February 23 – 2025
Here are five key insights from this week: AI is already here in trading and is revolutionizing markets – XTX Markets, for instance, operates over 25,000 GPUs with 650 petabytes of storage, facilitating $250 billion in daily trading across equities, FX, fixed income, and commodities. According to the StateofAI report that’s up with the likes […]
Organizational life is about to get much activity
Thank you for sharing, Ethan Mollick—definitely one to mull over. It reminds me of the shift to Zoom during COVID, positive in that it opened up new possibilities but also sparked complaints about what we lost—those in-between moments, like the walk to the elevator, where a casual comment could spark a breakthrough. If AI starts […]