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Improving trust in agentic AI for finance workflows remains a major priority for technology leaders today. Over the past two years, enterprises have rushed to put automated agents into real workflows, spanning customer support and back-office operations. These tools excel at retrieving information, yet they often struggle to provide consistent and explainable reasoning during multi-step The post Upgrading agentic AI for finance workflows appeared first on AI News.

Many organisations are eroding the foundations of business – productivity, competitiveness, and efficiency. This is happening due to poor implementation of human-AI collaboration, according to cloud data and AI consultancy, Datatonic. The company says in the next phase of enterprise AI, success will come from carefully-governed and designed AI that works alongside humans in “human-in-the-loop The post Poor implementation of AI may be behind workforce reduction appeared first on AI News.

Banks are testing a new type of artificial intelligence, like agentic AI, that does more than scan for keywords or follow preset rules. Instead of relying only on static alerts, some trading desks are beginning to use systems designed to reason through patterns in real time and flag conduct that may need human review. Bloomberg The post Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank test agentic AI for trade surveillance appeared first on AI News.

The machine that will make tomorrow’s AI chips possible has just been declared ready for mass production – and the clock for the industry’s next leap has officially started. ASML, the Dutch company that holds a global monopoly on commercial extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment, confirmed this week that its High-NA EUV tools have crossed the The post ASML’s high-NA EUV tools clear the runway for next-gen AI chips appeared first on AI News.

Telecom networks may soon begin adjusting themselves in real time, as operators test systems that allow AI agents to manage traffic and service quality. AI may soon be making operational decisions. This week, Nokia and AWS presented a new network slicing system that uses AI agents to monitor network conditions and adjust resources automatically. The The post Nokia and AWS pilot AI automation for real-time 5G network slicing appeared first on AI News.

Anthropic has detailed three “industrial-scale” AI model distillation campaigns by overseas labs designed to extract abilities from Claude. These competitors generated over 16 million exchanges using approximately 24,000 deceptive accounts. Their goal was to acquire proprietary logic to improve their competing platforms. The extraction technique, known as distillation, involves training a weaker system on the The post Anthropic: Claude faces ‘industrial-scale’ AI model distillation appeared first on AI News.

Disconnected clouds aim to improve AI data governance as businesses rethink their infrastructure under tighter regulatory expectations. Ensuring operational continuity in isolated environments has become increasingly vital for businesses. Facilities lacking continuous internet access face unique constraints where external dependencies become unacceptable. Microsoft recently expanded its capabilities to allow regulated industries and public sectors to The post How disconnected clouds improve AI data governance appeared first on AI News.

Agentic finance AI improves business efficiency and ROI only when deployed with strict governance and clear return on investment targets. A recent FT Longitude survey of 200 finance leaders across the US, UK, France, and Germany showed 61 percent have deployed AI agents merely as experiments. Meanwhile, one in four executives admit they do not The post Deploying agentic finance AI for immediate business ROI appeared first on AI News.

Basware has introduced a AI agents in its invoice lifecycle management platform to extend the existing InvoiceAI abilities of the platform. The company positions the agents as a step towards what it calls “Agentic Finance,” a model in which AI systems undertake finance tasks under preset controls. Jason Kurtz, chief executive officer of Basware said: The post Basware’s AI agents: From invoicing to ‘100% automated’ appeared first on AI News.

It’s an open secret (that is, not many people seem to know) that the institutions keeping the global financial system turnig over run code that is ancient, barely understood, and frighteningly hard to replace. Now, AI is finally making that problem solvable – and the market has responded with a reality check for one of The post COBOL modernisation just got an AI shortcut–and the market noticed appeared first on AI News.