
Orion deepens Anthropic bet as AI hits wealth advice

Wealth management platform Orion has expanded its tie-up with Anthropic, moving to absorb the AI company's newly minted financial services plug-ins into its adviser ecosystem. The move lands alongside Anthropic's wider enterprise agents push - the San Francisco outfit's most assertive attempt yet to wire Claude into workplace operations across finance, HR, and design. Under the new program,

Fed officials urge caution on rate cuts

The United States Federal Reserve should refrain from cutting interest rates until there is clearer evidence that inflation is moving sustainably back towards target, Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee said, warning that price pressures remain uncomfortably high. Speaking at the National Association for Business Economics annual conference in Washington, Goolsbee stressed that policymakers m

AMD powers on with new Meta chip agreement

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) shares surged after it announced a six gigawatt deal to power Meta Platforms’ next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure across multiple generations of AMD Instinct graphics processing units (GPUs). AMD said the agreement expanded on the two companies’ strategic partnership and aligned “roadmaps across silicon, systems and software to deliver AI

US home price growth slows in December: S&P

United States home price growth slowed slightly in December as mortgage and inflation rates weighed on housing values. Prices were up 1.3% in the year to December, compared with 1.4% annual growth in November, according to the S&P Cotality Case-Shiller index. Across 2025, home prices rose by the smallest percentage since 2011. “Two structural forces have reshaped the market over recent years

AI will reshape jobs at JPMorgan: Dimon

JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) will reshape jobs inside the bank - and potentially across the broader economy - even as the lender pours almost US$20 billion a year into new technology. Speaking at the bank’s investor day in New York, Dimon said management has already begun moving staff whose roles are affected by automation into other po
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