FinanceGym data can be used for Reinforcement Finetuning or Supervised Finetuning agentic models. It contains human-demonstrated trajectories w/thinking traces, & teaches agents financial work, not just financial knowledge.
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FinanceGym Releases Over 59,000 Training Samples for Finance Agents
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Training finance agents is hard: Private data is locked inside large corporations. MIT CSAIL researchers release "FinanceGym," the largest finance-agent dataset yet, w/59K+ samples across 37 roles and 40 apps/sites. Even Kimi K3 & Qwen 3.8 Max failed its test set.
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AI Agent Reviews OpenCV Grant Opportunities and a Rejected Proposal
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What a Consultant Would Have Charged for This
— Satya Mallick (@LearnOpenCV) 24 août 2026
I asked an AI agent to find grants for OpenCV and analyze why our 2023 NSF application was rejected. A consultant would charge $150 to $200/hr and spend a day on it, about $1,600. The agent did a strong first pass for a fraction of… pic.twitter.com/wfMkKsnabhWhat a Consultant Would Have Charged for This I asked an AI agent to find grants for OpenCV and analyze why our 2023 NSF application was rejected. A consultant would charge $150 to $200/hr and spend a day on it, about $1,600. The agent did a strong first pass for a fraction of
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Enterprise AI Coding Cuts Generation Costs While Review Remains Expensive
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// Applying Anthropic Primitives at Large Enterprises // Frontier models collapsed the cost of writing custom code. But they did not reduce the cost of reviewing and maintaining it. Each bespoke solution drifts from the next. This means that there is a huge tax that goes into
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Open Models’ Share of Vercel Tokens Reportedly Rises to 62%
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Open-source AI’s token share on Vercel surged from 28% to 62% in just two months. Just today, the Financial Times wrote that Fable 5 usage is declining because it's too expensive and open source is becoming increasingly better. At the same time, I think that more and more users
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AI Job Shock Debate Distinguishes Hiring Slowdown From Actual Automation
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“We are not experiencing an “AI Jobs Shock”. At most, we are experiencing a reduction in hiring by executives who do not understand the technology but who have absorbed vibes that there will be a real-soon-now “AI Jobs Shock”. Where do these vibes come from? From a combination of
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AI Data Center Electricity Demand Raises Questions About Clean Power Capacity
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AI has a growing energy problem. Data centres already consume electricity on the scale of major countries, and demand could more than double by 2030. The AI race may ultimately depend not only on chips and models, but also on who can produce abundant, reliable and clean power.
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Ramp Spending Data Shows Limited Corporate Use of Fable 5
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Not looking good for them: Anthropic’s Fable 5 is losing ground to cheaper open-source models: According to the FT, Anthropic’s most powerful model accounts for just 11% of its corporate AI spending on Ramp. The reason is simple: Fable 5 is too expensive, while cheaper models
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AI Chipmakers Fund Model Companies That Buy Their Hardware
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𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱.
— Pascal Bornet (@pascal_bornet) 23 août 2026
I have worked in AI for years, but even I now need a diagram to follow the money.
Chipmakers invest in model companies that use the funding to buy chips.… pic.twitter.com/kYIXCEqrf8𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱. I have worked in AI for years, but even I now need a diagram to follow the money. Chipmakers invest in model companies that use the funding to buy chips.
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Anthropic Revenue Debate Distinguishes Recurring Revenue From Annualized Run Rate
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Bingo, @chamath
! ARR can mean both “Annual Recurring Revenue” and “Annualized Run Rate” and Anthropic (or least its supporters) may well be playing games with that, implying the former but really talking about the latter. And of course there is a substantial chance that a lot