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Wall Street Journal [no paywall] – Finance Bros to Tech Bros: Don’t Mess With My Bloomberg Terminal. “Traders and investment research teams have a sacred bond with the Bloomberg terminal, which they use to track and analyze real-time and historical pricing for a variety of asset classes, execute and record trades, and chat with customers …
“From inside a frontier AI lab, we confront the most significant challenges about how powerful AI will impact the world around us.. The Anthropic Institute exists to understand and shape the consequences of powerful AI systems. We focus on the urgent questions that will determine whether these systems deliver the radical upsides that we believe …
Inside Climate News: Republican lawmakers are advancing legislation that would shield major polluters from legal accountability for climate change harms. Republican lawmakers in multiple states and Congress are advancing proposals to shield polluters from climate accountability and prevent any type of liability for climate change harms—even as these harms and their associated costs continue to …
IEEE Spectrum: “Some of the world’s largest companies with the biggest supply chains—including Walmart, the global shipping giant Maersk, and the telecom servicer Vodafone—are now using bots powered by artificial intelligence to negotiate and maintain supplier contracts. That these sophisticated AI systems were designed and built by a startup in Estonia is interesting; it’s even …
AI in Finance and Banking, March 15, 2026 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. Seven highlights from this post: How …
Protos – “Polymarket, a prediction market platform owned by New York-based company Blockratize, currently has open assassination markets on its website. They’re easy to find because they’re some of the most heavily traded markets on the platform. Among these markets are: Iran leader by end of 2026? (the current Ayatollah is on the list) Will …
The New Yorker – no paywall – “Memes such as “monitoring the situation” reflect a deluded belief that we can be more than just passive, confused bystanders to a spray of digital shrapnel. On TikTok, the war against Iran began with a series of videos from influencer types in Dubai, Doha, and elsewhere in the …
Follow up to Trump’s Battle With Big Firms Heads into 2026: What to Know See Also WSJ via MSN – “The Justice Department’s surprise reversal last week on defending the White House’s sanctions against law firms came after an angry outburst by President Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. After The Wall Street …
ProPublica: “…The timing of the drops at TransUnion and Experian coincides with the Trump administration’s dismantling of the CFPB. In February 2025, Russell Vought, a White House official who oversaw sweeping cuts across federal agencies, took control of the CFPB as acting director. He quickly ordered a stop to nearly all agency work. Under his …
The Elliott Report is a news site published by consumer advocate Christopher Elliott in association with Elliott Advocacy, a nonprofit organization. The Elliott Report features articles and commentary about how to become a smarter consumer. We publish an authoritative list of executive contacts. If you have a problem with a company, this information will help …
CNBC: “U.S. Customs and Border Protection told a U.S. Court of International Trade judge on Friday that it is not currently able to comply with his order to begin refunding about $166 billion collected in reciprocal tariffs imposed last year by President Donald Trump. CBP, in a court filing, cited its existing technology, processes and …
Wall Street Journal -” Plus, the potential benefits of a blue-collar career change and why MBAs from top schools are struggling to get hired. CEOs say AI is boosting efficiency, but employees say it isn’t saving much time. There’s a vast gulf between senior executives’ and workers’ actual experience with generative AI, according to a …
