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Anthropic’s launch of Claude for Financial Advisors became one of the biggest talking points on the opening day of the Future Proof Festival in Huntington Beach. The new offering brings Anthropic together with several major names in wealth management, including Dynasty Financial Partners, Charles Schwab and other technology and investment firms.

Unveiled Monday, the platform is designed to connect Claude with key systems used by financial advisors, including custodians, portfolio management platforms, customer relationship management systems and financial planning tools.

Industry Leaders Welcome the Move

Shirl Penney, founder and CEO of Dynasty Financial Partners, strongly endorsed the new technology during a panel discussion at Future Proof’s Ocean Stage. Penney said advisors generally enter the profession to work with clients and provide financial guidance, rather than spend most of their time handling administrative and back-office tasks. He suggested Claude could help reduce that burden and allow advisors to focus more on serving clients.

He also highlighted the broad industry support behind the initiative. Companies involved include Charles Schwab, BlackRock, iCapital, Addepar, Envestnet, SS&C Black Diamond, Wealthbox, Wealth.com, Vanguard and Zocks. According to Penney, the level of cooperation among major industry players makes the launch particularly significant for the independent wealth management sector, especially as demand for financial advice grows and service costs continue to rise.

Focus on Responsible AI

Anthropic’s Peter Nolan, head of asset and wealth management, described the company as a responsible AI provider during the panel. Addressing concerns about how advisor data would be handled, Nolan said Anthropic does not train its AI models on customer data.

The approach is expected to be important as financial firms increasingly look to integrate AI into systems that handle sensitive client and portfolio information.

Advisors See Potential Benefits

Financial advisors attending the festival also expressed optimism about the technology. Charlie Rocco, CEO of Moneco Advisors, said he believes Claude is more likely to support advisors than replace them.

He pointed to the ability to use natural language to interact with and update multiple systems as a potentially major improvement to advisor workflows.

Hugh Gallagher, CEO of Ireland-based Peak Financial, also praised the seamless integrations available in the US market. However, he noted that Ireland’s financial technology environment remains more fragmented, making similar connections more challenging.

Overall, the launch reflects growing interest in AI tools that can connect different parts of the financial advisor technology stack while reducing administrative work.

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OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT for Financial Services, a specialized ChatGPT Work experience designed to help financial institutions handle research, financial modeling and client-related work more efficiently.

The new offering combines financial data from established industry providers with the reasoning capabilities of GPT-6 Astra. It is aimed at supporting bankers and other financial professionals with everyday tasks while helping firms make greater use of AI across their operations.

Built for Financial Institutions

The product has been developed with input from financial institutions, including Morgan Stanley and Evercore, through OpenAI’s design partnerships with the firms.

These collaborations have helped OpenAI identify some of the most time-consuming challenges faced by financial professionals. The company said the feedback has also helped shape tools designed to support bankers throughout their daily workflows.

Rather than relying entirely on separate data connections, ChatGPT for Financial Services provides access to financial information directly within the experience.

Premium Financial Data

The platform includes data from providers such as Daloopa, PitchBook, LSEG News and Crunchbase. OpenAI said this built-in access is intended to reduce some of the complexity associated with setting up and maintaining external connectors.

The data is indexed and hosted by OpenAI, allowing the system to deliver more reliable access to financial information and support additional capabilities.

One of the key features is granular citations, which allow users to trace figures, statements and other claims back to their underlying sources. This can help bankers verify information while developing research, financial analysis and client materials.

Advanced AI and Enterprise Controls

ChatGPT for Financial Services also provides access to frontier AI capabilities, including GPT-6 Astra, directly within the product. OpenAI said newer models will continue to become available as they are released, allowing financial firms to access updated AI capabilities without having to rebuild their workflows.

For financial institutions, governance and security are also central to the offering. Firms can centrally control user access and manage data connections while using ChatGPT’s enterprise security and governance features.

With the launch, OpenAI is positioning ChatGPT for Financial Services as a dedicated AI environment for the financial sector, combining specialized data, advanced reasoning and enterprise controls in a single platform.

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U.S. President Donald Trump has shared a map showing an American flag covering large parts of North America, including Canada, Mexico and Greenland, along with Iceland and several Caribbean islands. The post appeared on Truth Social on Monday and comes amid Trump’s repeated comments about expanding U.S. territorial influence beyond the country’s existing borders.

The image features the pattern of the American flag placed across the United States, Canada, Mexico and parts of Central America. It also extends across Greenland, Iceland and Caribbean nations and territories, including Cuba and Jamaica.

While Trump has previously spoken about acquiring Canada and Greenland, as well as gaining control of the Panama Canal, the inclusion of Mexico and Caribbean islands represents a broader depiction of territories associated with his recent expansion-related rhetoric.

Tensions with Canada

Trump’s post also comes at a time of heightened tensions between Washington and Ottawa. The two countries have imposed tariffs on each other’s goods, adding pressure to their long-standing economic relationship.

Against this backdrop, Trump recently signed an executive order seeking to rename Lake Ontario, which shares its name with the Canadian province of Ontario, as “Lake America.” The move added another layer to the ongoing political and diplomatic tensions between the two neighboring countries.

Trump’s comments and actions regarding Canada have repeatedly attracted attention, particularly his previous suggestions that the country could become part of the United States.

‘New America’ Post Sparks Attention as Show American Flag

The latest map follows another unusual post by Trump on Sunday involving New Mexico. The president shared an image of the state with its name altered to “New America,” following an online hoax falsely claiming that he had signed an executive order changing the state’s name.

The image showed a large “X” placed over the word “Mexico,” with “America” displayed underneath. The White House’s official account also shared the image on X.

The posts have drawn attention as Trump continues to use maps, images and social media posts to communicate his views on U.S. territory and national identity. Although some of the imagery appears to be symbolic or provocative, it has renewed discussion around his earlier proposals involving Canada, Greenland and other territories.

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OpenAI has announced that researchers using an unreleased internal model have made a breakthrough on the Navier-Stokes equations, one of the most challenging unsolved problems in mathematics. The announcement, made on September 8, has nevertheless triggered a dispute over who deserves credit for the work.

The Navier-Stokes equations, which describe the motion of fluids such as air and water, are among seven problems the Clay Mathematics Institute designated as Millennium Prize Problems in 2000. Each problem carries a US$1 million prize for a verified solution. Until now, only one of the seven problems had been officially solved.

Mathematicians Raise Attribution Concerns

Tristan Buckmaster, a mathematics professor at New York University, said in a statement published September 8 that he and Levent Alpöge, a researcher at Anthropic, had been independently working on the Navier-Stokes problem for much of the past year.

According to Buckmaster, OpenAI learned of their progress and then moved to complete the problem using what he described as a similar approach. He alleged that the company sought to reach the result before the independent researchers, raising questions about attribution and the extent to which their work may have influenced OpenAI’s efforts.

The dispute adds a notable dimension to OpenAI’s announcement, particularly as the mathematical community assesses whether the reported result constitutes a genuine solution to the Millennium Prize Problem and how credit should be assigned.

OpenAI Rejects the Allegations

OpenAI has strongly denied the claims. In comments to USA TODAY, the company described the researchers’ allegations as “categorically false.”

OpenAI also stated that its researchers had not seen Buckmaster and Alpöge’s work through any means before it was publicly released. The company specifically said that no specific user data was accessed in the process of attempting to solve the problem.

The competing accounts have placed the focus not only on the potential mathematical significance of OpenAI’s achievement, but also on transparency, attribution and the role of artificial intelligence in advanced mathematical research.

As mathematicians examine the details of the claimed result, independent verification will ultimately determine whether the breakthrough meets the rigorous standards required for a solution to one of mathematics’ most prestigious problems.

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MapQuest has turned a politically charged naming dispute into a remarkable boost for its brand, surging to the top of Apple’s App Store navigation rankings after choosing to retain the historical name Lake Ontario on its maps.

The mapping company said hundreds of thousands of users downloaded its app following its decision to continue displaying historical names for major lakes and gulfs, sending usage to approximately 50 times its normal level.

From Maps to the Top of the App Store

MapQuest reported that it became the No. 1 navigation app and No. 8 free app overall in the U.S. Apple App Store as of August 30. The app also climbed to No. 2 among all free applications in Canada.

Doug Berger, general manager of MapQuest, said the company followed the same strategy it had used during the earlier debate over the Gulf of Mexico’s name: remain part of the conversation while providing users with familiar geographic terminology.

The surge came after President Donald Trump ordered the body of water to be renamed “Lake America.” While Google Maps and Apple Maps adopted the new designation for U.S. users, MapQuest opted to continue using Lake Ontario.

Giving Users a Choice

MapQuest also expanded a feature that allows users to rename Lake Ontario directly within the application. The functionality builds on a similar tool the company introduced for the Gulf of Mexico in February 2025. Rather than positioning the move as a political campaign, MapQuest framed it as a continuation of its approach to mapping and user choice.

A Brand Revival Opportunity

The strategy has caught the attention of marketing and public-relations professionals. Eric Yaverbaum, CEO of Ericho Communications, said MapQuest benefited because the company remained within its area of expertise while participating in a highly visible cultural debate.

According to Yaverbaum, MapQuest did not attempt to force a broader political message. Instead, it used its core product maps to offer an alternative to the naming adopted by larger competitors. The resulting attention could provide the once-dominant mapping brand with an opportunity to reconnect with consumers and refresh its public image.

For MapQuest, a decision over a map label has unexpectedly become a powerful brand-revival moment, demonstrating how cultural conversations can translate into significant digital engagement.

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Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the leading open-source artificial intelligence platform, for $12.9 billion in a deal that signals the chipmaker’s continued push beyond hardware and deeper into the rapidly expanding AI ecosystem.

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue told CNBC that the company approached Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during the summer after recognising that open-source AI had reached a critical turning point.

“We realized that Hugging Face and open-source AI in general was at the turning point,” Delangue said, explaining that the company needed greater resources, scale and visibility. He added that Nvidia represented a “perfect home” for the platform and that negotiations progressed quickly, with a deal reached just weeks after the initial approach.

Open Platform at the Centre of the Deal

Despite the acquisition, Hugging Face is expected to remain an open platform serving developers, researchers and institutions across the broader AI industry.

Huang said the acquisition would enable Nvidia to expand Hugging Face’s infrastructure, strengthen its platform and broaden access to AI technologies worldwide. He also reiterated that the platform would remain open to the wider AI ecosystem.

The move gives Nvidia a stronger position across the AI technology stack, extending its influence from the processors that power AI systems to the software, models and developer tools built on top of them.

Nvidia’s Second-Largest Acquisition

The $12.9 billion transaction will rank as Nvidia’s second-largest acquisition on record. It follows the company’s approximately $20 billion purchase of assets from AI chipmaker Groq in December.

Before the Groq transaction, Nvidia’s largest deal was its nearly $7 billion acquisition of Israeli semiconductor company Mellanox in 2019.

Nvidia has emerged as the world’s most valuable company amid extraordinary demand for its graphics processing units, which have become a critical foundation of the generative AI boom.

A Broader AI Strategy

The Hugging Face acquisition highlights Nvidia’s ambition to evolve from a leading chipmaker into a broader AI technology powerhouse. Hugging Face has become a major hub for open-source AI models, tools and developer collaboration, making it a strategically important addition to Nvidia’s expanding portfolio.

The deal also comes shortly after Hugging Face faced a significant hacking incident that raised fresh concerns around cybersecurity and the growing sophistication of AI tools.

With the acquisition, Nvidia is positioning itself to play an even larger role in shaping the infrastructure and software ecosystem that will underpin the next phase of artificial intelligence.

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