Robot takeover postponed
Financial Post
Certain quantitative tactics are suffering as so-called “dumb money” disappears. Read More
Opimas claims 90K jobs to be lost to AI
Financial Times (subscription)
But opinions are still divided. The flip side is that AI will free up time for portfolio managers to focus on more valuable work. Read More
From one alpha to six million
WorldQuant
WorldQuant founder Igor Tulchinsky discusses the role of technology in the age of prediction. Read More
Swarm updates bolster data collection
WIRED
Foursquare continues to evolve the front end of its Swarm platform to collect more salable location data. Read More
Uber’s woes continue with privacy breaches
Mashable
Uber will be under audit for the next 20 years for failing to protect consumer data fully. Read More
Turning green into green
WatersTechnology (subscription)
Quandl’s Chief Data Officer Abraham Thomas weighs in on how AI is speeding up the already rapid development of ESG investing. Read More
Buddy gets in the alt data game
The Australian Financial Review
Claiming to be the “Fitbit for buildings”, Australia’s Buddy Platform starts selling to hedge funds. Read More
US Courts: Public data scraping legal
The Next Web
The federal court rules that LinkedIn cannot legally prevent bots from scrubbing its platform’s public data. Read More