Anthropic just launched Claude for Financial Advisors, plugging straight into custodians like Charles Schwab and BlackRock to automate tedious desk work. Built-in skills draft recap notes, review portfolio drift, and screen text against SEC rules, freeing up hours while leaving human advisors in full control of every recommendation.
Nvidia just made its NeMo microservices generally available, offering end-to-end tools to customize, evaluate, and guardrail enterprise AI agents. It boosts fine-tuning throughput by up to 1.8x and helps firms like AT&T and Cisco tap into continuous data flywheels. Basically, it turns enterprise LLMs into constantly learning digital coworkers.
OpenAI just appointed Adebayo Ogunlesi, founding partner of Global Infrastructure Partners and a senior managing director at BlackRock, to its board of directors. Ogunlesi brings decades of elite experience in transnational finance and mega-scale infrastructure. As AI labs race to secure data centers and power, his arrival signals OpenAI's aggressive push into physical infrastructure.
AI chip startup Groq just pulled in a massive $640 million funding round led by Blackrock, valuing the inference specialist at $2.8 billion. The company claims its custom LPUs run generative AI models 10x faster and with a fraction of the energy of conventional GPUs. Meta's Yann LeCun is also joining as a technical advisor, giving the upstart serious ammo against Nvidia.
