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Papers, releases and policy changes in AI for finance research, each with a TL;DR and the reason it matters to your work.
LLM literature reviews hold up for broad claims and break down for paper-level ones
A test on economics papers that use rainfall as an instrument finds accuracy falls as the reading task needs more context.
Agents can propose investment factors, but a frozen referee has to judge them
A working paper splits factor research in two and finds that a referee the agent cannot touch admits 5 to 11 times fewer false factors.
Scientists report saving nearly 7 hours a week with AI, and the bottleneck moves to verification
A study of 15 million Gemini interactions, over 2,600 specialized models and a survey of over 600 scientists maps how AI is used in research.
Daiwa Securities moves its Sakana AI consulting platform from trials into production development
Sakana AI, the Tokyo lab behind The AI Scientist, is building a total-asset consulting system for Daiwa under a partnership signed in October 2025.
AACSB's AI framework for business schools grows to 84 schools in its July 2026 update
The report series went from 26 institutions in July 2025 to 48 in January 2026 and 84 in July, and it names faculty development as the critical success factor.
The one public review of WRDS's Ask AI chatbot finds a lookup tool with a six-question limit
Librarians in Singapore tested the beta and found it useful for locating variables, unreliable on first try and capped at six questions a session.
Korea's financial regulator loosens network separation so firms can use AI
The Financial Services Commission will exempt firms with strong security from the rule that keeps their internal systems off the internet, and it is reviewing full repeal.
Stock Claude Code and Codex wrote 117 papers unaided, and none cleared a top venue's bar
With only a light scaffold, Claude Code matched the average human ICLR 2025 submission on manuscript review. Scores fell once reviewers opened the code behind each paper.
A paper-writing pipeline for Claude Code went from 6,400 GitHub stars to 51,000 in five months
academic-research-skills runs 32 agents across ten stages with two integrity gates. Its builder says the checks caught 15 fabricated citations in one real paper.
Mirae Asset moved research assistant work to AI and made the assistants junior analysts
The Korean broker renamed its research unit the AI Research Center and expects an analyst to cover 20 to 30 stocks, up from 10 to 15, BizWatch reports.
Chinese brokers put DeepSeek-V4 into use within hours of its release
Guotai Haitong deployed the model on release day, 24 April 2026, and Industrial Securities reports full integration in two hours, according to National Business Daily.
Nearly half of Gen Z workers admit to undermining their employer's AI rollout
In a survey of 2,400 knowledge workers, 29% say they actively work against their company's AI plans, and 44% of Gen Z do. Executives answer with layoffs and blocked promotions.
In 912 AI-written economics papers, the ideas trail human work far more than the execution
Against 41 papers from the AER and AEJ: Economic Policy, a study puts 71% of the quality gap on the research idea and finds no significant gap on robustness.
China's quant funds are turning their trading compute into AI labs
Shanghai Securities News names four quant managers with their own institutes, supercomputing centers or open source models, and asks which will produce the next DeepSeek.
Review of Finance bans hidden prompts in manuscripts and sets a one-year penalty
The journal's LLM policy also requires authors to disclose any AI use in the cover letter and in the manuscript, and limits referees to supportive use.
Japan's financial regulator tells firms not to hold back on AI for fear of risk
The FSA's revised AI paper says customer-facing use, almost absent in late 2024, is now being launched in limited form, and that firms need not solve every problem first.