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How 401(k) Providers Are Filling the Gaps in Financial Advice

5 days ago | thedailyupside.com | Griffin Kelly

Put that in the record books. Not everyone has an advisor, but most Americans have some type of retirement account, meaning the majority of folks are planning for retirement without the help of an advisor. That gap creates an opportunity for recordkeepers to step in and play a larger role as planners, according to a new Cerulli report. It’s a strategy that may create more competition for traditional financial advisors.
Increasing Your Enterprise’s ‘Adaptability Quotient’

6 days ago | thedailyupside.com | Nat Rubio-Licht

When Shibani Ahuja landed in San Francisco for her onboarding at Salesforce seven months ago, she was struck by the number of billboards focused on AI and tech. They stood in stark contrast to those in her home city of Toronto, which mostly displayed ads for personal injury lawyers, she said.
Is US Economic Data Getting Shakier?

1 week ago | thedailyupside.com | Crystal Kim

Life in America — whether there are enough jobs to go around, how much those jobs pay, and the cost of things like food and rent — is reflected in numbers that drive public and private decision-making. Lately, that data has been called into question as staffing shortages, years of shrinking funding, decades of declining survey responses and unforeseen interruptions have thwarted the agency responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating much of the information.
OpenAI Careens Toward Messy Divorce From Microsoft

1 week ago | thedailyupside.com | Sean Craig

Quick, someone call TMZ: There’s an even messier celebrity breakup than Trump-Musk with countless billions at stake. Relations between OpenAI and its largest investor, Microsoft, are continuing to fray as the ascendant artificial intelligence firm struggles to get approval from its investor on the fine points of reorganizing into a for-profit public benefit corporation.
Berkshire Slips Amid Concern Retiring CEO May Take “Buffett Premium” With Him

1 week ago | thedailyupside.com | Sean Craig

The “Warren Buffett premium” at Berkshire Hathaway is melting faster than a forgotten Dilly Bar. Since the conglomerate’s legendary CEO announced in May that he plans to retire at the end of this year, four months after his 95th birthday, Berkshire shares have fallen roughly 10%. The selloff can be attributed to a handful of factors, chief among them the Buffett premium, which refers to the extra price investors are willing to pay for the billionaire Oracle of Omaha’s stock-picking talent.
Finance Departments Struggle to Balance AI Adoption Risks With Rewards

1 week ago | thedailyupside.com | Nat Rubio-Licht

If you’re not considering how to work AI into your finance team, you may be behind the curve. While doing so involves additional hurdles and higher stakes than adding AI to other departments in an enterprise, the benefits that the tech can bring – and the ability to stay ahead of competition – may be worth the hassle, experts told CIO Upside as part of our first-ever webinar.
Why is the Quantum Race Moving Faster?

1 week ago | thedailyupside.com | Nat Rubio-Licht

Quantum breakthroughs are picking up the pace. In mid-June, IBM released its quantum roadmap, outlining a path to “IBM Quantum Starling,” what the company expects to be the “first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer,” by 2029.
IBM Patent Seeks to Help AI Models ‘Unlearn’

1 week ago | thedailyupside.com | Nat Rubio-Licht

IBM wants to help AI models pick up good habits. The tech firm is seeking to patent a system for “automated guidance for machine unlearning,” which essentially helps AI models discard programming that deviates from its intended objectives and makes suggestions on retraining. First, IBM’s tech removes data from a trained machine learning model that may be influencing specific outputs, such as ones exhibiting bias or accuracy issues.
SPAC Comeback Draws Renewed Interest from Wall Street

1 week ago | thedailyupside.com | Sean Craig

They’re SPAC! Just when the market seemed dead and buried, special purpose acquisition companies have risen from the grave. The re-emergence of the once, maybe still, controversial vehicles that let companies go public outside of traditional IPOs is underscored by strong hints this week that one of yesteryear’s biggest Wall Street underwriters of the blank check firms is once again ready to make deals after bowing out of the space three years ago.
What the GENIUS Act Means for Stablecoins and Advisors

1 week ago | thedailyupside.com | Griffin Kelly

Who wouldn’t like a little more stability in their life? In the chaotic world of crypto, at least, some may be on the way. The Senate approved a regulatory framework for stablecoins, dubbed the GENIUS Act, this week. The bill, which has yet to be passed by the House of Representatives, would require tokens to be backed by liquid assets including the US dollar and short-term Treasurys, and issuers would have to publicly disclose composition of their reserves each month.