finance

This paper introduces OpenFinGym, a unified multi-task gym environment for evaluating large language model agents in quantitative finance, covering forecasting, market generation, real-time trading, and fraud detection with verifiable execution and automated task construction.

Introduces AlgoEvolve, an LLM-driven evolutionary framework that generates and iteratively improves algorithmic trading strategies, with a meta-evolutionary outer loop that evolves prompts to guide the inner loop synthesis.

This article provides an in-depth look at the customized Python ecosystems used by large investment banks, focusing on a fictionalized system called Minerva with a global object database named Barbara.

Google has released its first standalone Google Finance app for Android, with an iOS version promised for later in 2026. The app includes AI-powered features like key moments for chart explanations and an AI research tool, alongside the general overhaul of the Finance website leaving beta.

Explores whether AI-driven trading is feasible and secure, addressing potential risks and benefits.

The article paints a dystopian picture of cryptocurrency in 2026, where the U.S. president launches a memecoin, prediction markets allow bets on assassinations, and a shadow dollar system exploits the global poor, arguing that crypto markets lack real-world value anchoring.

Recommended several bloggers focusing on AI, US stocks, cryptocurrencies, quantitative trading, etc., and briefly introduced their characteristics and achievements.

Commenting that SpaceX's stock trading performance resembles the style of the A-share market.

The author worries that Japan's native stablecoin JPYC is not developing well, which may allow USDC to monopolize Japan's stablecoin market, thereby letting Americans control Japan's finance.

Binance founder CZ said in the conversation that AI and crypto will deeply integrate; the AI boom is actually funneling traffic into the crypto market, and the two are symbiotic rather than replacing each other. In the coming months, we may see AI-enabled autonomous trading and automatic payments.

A tweet curates 10 powerful open-source GitHub repositories that serve as free alternatives to popular paid software, covering finance, AI, customer support, document signing, business intelligence, automation, and more.

JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs have restricted their Hong Kong staff from accessing Claude, implying concerns over AI usage in finance.

This article recommends a Codex Skill configuration checklist for 7 job roles in finance, covering areas such as investment research, investment banking, and trading, with a total of 70 practical tools to help improve work efficiency.

A tweet highlights how a math genius built an AI system capable of trillions of operations per second for Jane Street, earning a huge salary, and promotes a lecture explaining the methodology.

Researchers from Stanford, UC, and Nanjing University release SEFD, a dataset of 152B tokens from SEC filings converted to layout-faithful MultiMarkdown, preserving table structure for LLM training with minimal overlap with Common Crawl.

AutoFlow discusses the critical challenge of trust in AI, proposing external verification methods such as knowledge graphs and mathematical consistency checks, and announces acceptance into the NVIDIA Inception Program to advance research into trustworthy AI systems.

Goldman Sachs open-sourced a quantitative trading framework used internally, including Claude AI skills, enabling users to build trading strategies.

Jon Gray of Blackstone states that AI will disrupt rule-based businesses like accounting and finance, citing JPMorgan's use of AI for shareholder votes. Vinod Khosla warns that India's BPO industry will be displaced by AI unless it shifts to AI deployment.

Questions the mismatch between SpaceX's valuation and revenue, suggesting it might be the biggest bubble in history.

AI agents are advancing from generating text to handling real financial transactions and business actions, which shifts the risk from bad outputs to harmful actions and raises critical questions about accountability.