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AI Borrowing Goes to Plaid

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An AI researcher let it slip last week that the technology we’re all embracing could wipe out humanity in the next decade. Bright side: if that came to pass, it would render any concerns expressed in this blog post largely moot. If you want...

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Data Centers Getting Easier to Finance, Harder to Build

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What the right hand giveth, the left hand taketh away. We think someone said that once. Regardless, data center operators might be feeling that sentiment right now, because they are getting contrasting signals about their businesses from tw...

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Data Centers Generate AI—and Risk—for Issuers

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Everybody wants the AI, nobody wants the data center. That may be an oversimplification, but if you read enough securities filings (as we love to) or litigation dockets, you start to realize it’s only a slight one. The opposition to data ce...

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Shadow AI Lands on the SEC’s Radar

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“Shadow AI” may well be the coolest-sounding corporate risk factor you will ever hear of—one that would work nicely on the spine of a Tom Clancy novel. In reality, though, the risk is more routine and pervasive than it is exotic. And as the...

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AI Takes on Proxy Advisors

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It looks like proxy advisors may be able to join the growing number of white-collar workers fretting over potential obsolescence thanks to artificial intelligence. That may sound like an overreaction to the news that one financial services...

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