How Deceptive AI Will Colonise the Stock Market
How AI Just Defeated World Class Poker Players Over 20 Days The Coming Flood of New Investment Intelligences Yet another sudden and surprising landmark for Artificial Intelligence this week… News from the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh has filtered through that a poker...
Why Google, NASA and the CIA are Experimenting With This Controversial Startup
What Happens When We Go Quantum? How China Plans to Dominate America D-Wave Systems is a small and controversial Canadian company with a list of clients that includes the CIA, NASA, Google and a host of very ambitious cybersecurity startups. The company has made a...
4 Ways That AI is Changing How We Invest
Why This Legendary Investor Is Staking It All on Deep Learning Machines Three Big Predictions for the Investment Community Legendary macro manager Paul Tudor Jones has been having a rough time of late. Last year, his funds were struggling for performance and investors...
Global Finance is at an Inflection Point – Back the New Financial Titans
Why Big Banks could face a 50% job cull Watch Alibaba to see the scale of changes ahead It's the one phrase I've read more than any other in 2017: AI is changing everything. And the fact of the matter is that it is. AI, particularly machine learning, is rattling...
The Big Story for 2017: 7 Things You Need to Know About Blockchain
Why Banks are Really Investing in Blockchain In prospect: A Complete Reset of The Financial System over next few years It’s easy to see why the financial establishment ignored Bitcoin when it was first introduced. Coded by an unknown hacker, and germinating in the...
Why Tech Titans Are Now A Big Threat to Banks
Why Alibaba Could Be The Next Banking Giant The Biggest Story for Investors in 2017 The global financial industry as we know it is facing a great existential threat. New disruptors are challenging at every level of the financial stack. Robot-analyst Kensho...
3 ‘AntiFragile’ Companies That Thrive on Uncertainty and Chaos
"Anti-fragile": a key idea for investors in 2017 Plus -- Claim your free A.I. report In Greek legend the murky swamps of Lerna were haunted by a nine-headed water serpent named Hydra, a beast who had the knack of growing two heads for every one that was cut off. Hydra...
Three Strategies for an Absurd World
"Darkness is good!" The death of the finacialisation model Donald Trump, Rodrigo Duterte, Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin, Jacob Zuma, Boris Johnson. We are living in a world that increasingly resembles Guignol's Theatre of the Absurd. It’s a drama with an infernal mix of...
The Heft Economy
Have we hit 'peak trade'? The real buildout Trump signals a trillion dollar infrastructure plan and suddenly the heft economy of diggers, builders and engineers is commanding investor attention again. John Deere seems more future-filled and real than Facebook. The US...