The Bot Worked. Was the Workforce Decision Right?
A banking institution used AI to transform how work was done. But did the evidence justify the workforce decisions that followed?
Your Money. Your Agent. Whose Decision?
A trading platform looks toward a future of AI-assisted investing. What happens when individuals entrust consequential financial decisions to AI?
Robinhood is bringing autonomous AI agents to retail investing. The technology may change who performs the work of investing. But who makes the decision—and who bears the consequences? For decades, the promise of financial technology has been greater access. Online brokerages lowered trading costs, mobile apps put markets in
Commonwealth Bank of Australia introduced an AI voice bot, concluded that 45 customer-service positions were no longer needed, and then reversed the decision three weeks later. What failed: the technology, the workforce assessment, or the link between them? The decision after the deployment In June 2025, Commonwealth Bank of
Private equity is taking another look at healthcare. In The Weekend Pitch, PitchBook's Esther Luz describes investors moving beyond traditional physician-practice roll-ups toward services patients pay for directly: weight management, hormone therapy, medical aesthetics, and concierge care. The economic attraction is understandable. These businesses can reduce
Forty-four years since Milwaukee's last World Series. Thirty-one years since Tampa Bay was awarded a franchise. Two teams chasing a championship neither has ever won. Baseball was designed to be a game of perseverance and poetry. Unlike other sports where you cross a line into enemy
