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US lawmakers demand answers from Instructure after Canvas data breaches

U.S. House lawmakers want to know how hackers broke into education tech giant Instructure twice, and stole reams of data from students who use the company’s flagship student data software Canvas.

Anthropic now has more business customers than OpenAI, according to Ramp data

For the first time, Anthropic has more verified business customers than OpenAI, according to this month’s AI Index from the fintech firm Ramp.

Beat the AI Hype: This Convertible ETF Gained 68% in 1 Year

Every now and then, a new ETF arrives on the market and quickly captures attention from advisors and investors. Currently, that “it” fund is the Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM), which offers targeted exposure to companies within the global semiconductor memory industry. The strong interest is for good reason: DRAM’s performance has continued to show impressive […]

Adaption aims big with AutoScientist, an AI tool that helps models train themselves

Adaption’s new AutoScientist tool is designed to let models adapt to specific capabilities quickly through an automated approach to conventional fine-tuning.

TSPA: Capturing the 2026 AI Infrastructure Boom

The T. Rowe Price U.S. Equity Research ETF (TSPA) holds five stocks Morningstar identified as the best-performing names tied to AI infrastructure in 2026, positioning the fund to capture the boom in hardware and storage driving data center buildouts. Key Takeaways: TSPA holds five stocks Morningstar identified as top AI infrastructure performers in 2026. Hard-disk […]

Navigating the Small-Cap ETF Disconnect

There has been a visible disparity between the performance of U.S. small-caps and U.S. large-caps so far this year. What hasn’t been too visible is a lot of investor interest in the action. When we plot the performance of the S&P 600 vs. the S&P 500 — as measured by the iShares S&P 600 ETF […]

Scaling RIA Growth: The Goldman Sachs AI Playbook

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS) executives detailed their artificial intelligence strategy for operational efficiency as new data showed the top 100 registered investment advisor firms now manage more than $1.6 trillion in client assets, double what they controlled just two years ago, according to Padi Raphael, global co-head of third party wealth at the firm. […]

2026 Robotics Update: The Physical AI Ecosystem

In our first article of the year, we spoke about how robotics was at the cusp of a period of rapid expansion. We’re now almost halfway through 2026 and everything continues to point in that direction. The prevailing narrative has shifted from conceptual prototypes to firm production timelines and commercial deployments. Robotics is now a […]