Business & Industry

Business and Industry covers the commercial adoption of artificial intelligence across corporate sectors and economic markets. Truncated covers enterprise deployments, industry investments, market trends, workforce impacts and regulatory compliance.

Yesterday · Tue 10 Nov

Morgans’ Stickley: S&P 500 up after every midterm since 1950 as Nvidia looks cheap

AI-generated summary Jack Stickley of Morgans notes that the S&P 500 has risen after every US midterm election since 1950, while the recent technology sell-off highlights policy risks to the data centre build-out. Stickley says Nvidia looks inexpensive based on its forward price-to-earnings ratio and revenue guidance, with upcoming financial results serving as a key test for the artificial intelligence sector.

Mercor raises $750M at $20B valuation to take AI agent evaluation to enterprises

AI-generated summary Artificial intelligence training data company Mercor.io Corp. raised $750 million in new funding at a $20 billion valuation to expand its AI agent evaluation services to enterprises. The funding round included participation from corporate investors Nvidia Corp., Salesforce Inc., and Zoom Communications Inc. along with several other venture firms.

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The challenge of scaling AI in financial services

AI-generated summary Amazon Web Services Inc. hosted the AWS Financial Services Symposium to discuss moving artificial intelligence into production and scaling deployments responsibly across banks, capital markets firms, and mortgage lenders. Infosys Ltd. and NetApp Inc. are among the companies addressing security, governance, and infrastructure requirements as organizations expand their use of artificial intelligence.