Category «Economy»

AI In Finance and Banking August 31, 2025

Subjects: AI in Banking and Finance, Economy, Financial System, Government Resources, Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 16, 2025

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: Leading AI Agents Like ChatGPT Are Vulnerable to Hacking, Security Firm Finds; FBI Alert: This New Smartphone Scam Can Steal All Your Data; A Bug at Social Security Admin Has Been Rerouting Phone Calls to Random Offices; Leading AI Agents Like ChatGPT Are Vulnerable to Hacking, Security Firm Finds; and Crypto Security and Scams.

Subjects: AI, Congress, Cryptocurrency, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Legislative, Privacy, Social Media

AI In Finance and Banking July 31, 2025

This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and as available, indicate links to alternate free versions. Eight highlights from this post: Preparing for systemic risks in the age of generative artificial intelligence; JPMorgan, Robeco Quietly Deploy AI in Daily Wall Street Routines; Can finance put an end to AI data mining; The Transformational Effects of Artificial Intelligence on the Finance Sector Workforce; Algorithmic Coercion with Faster Pricing; AI-Powered Trading, Algorithmic Collusion, and Price Efficience; From Banks to Bots: Behind the Rise of AI Money; and Federal Reserve conference included Fireside Chat – Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle W. Bowman and Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO; and Here’s What ‘Terrifies’ OpenAI’s CEO About Financial Institutions Today.

Subjects: AI, AI in Banking and Finance, Economy, Financial System, Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 12, 2025

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: Employees are quietly bringing AI to work and leaving security behind; AI could harm your critical thinking skills. Should that change how you use it?; Device disregard is multiplying digital ghosts across federal agencies; Fake online stores look real, rank high, and trap unsuspecting buyers; and Appeals court strikes down ‘click-to-cancel’ rule.

Subjects: AI, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Education, Financial System, KM, Privacy, Search Engines

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 21, 2025

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: How to Avoid a Huge Customs Bill on a Cheap Online Order; ‘No Kings’ Protests, Citizen-Run ICE Trackers Trigger Intelligence Warnings; 16 billion passwords exposed in record-breaking data breach, opening access to Facebook, Google, Apple, and any other service imaginable; How to Find the Owner of a VoIP Number: Easy Lookup Methods; and AI Chatbots Are Impersonating Students to Steal Financial Aid.

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Legal Research, Privacy

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 31, 2025

On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: Most AI chatbots devour your user data – these are the worst offenders; The US Is Building a One-Stop Shop for Buying Your Data; Digital Corruption Takes Over DC; A Starter Guide to Protecting Your Data From Hackers and Corporations; and Cybercriminals exploit AI hype to spread ransomware, malware.

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Legal Research, Privacy

AI in Finance and Banking, May 31, 2025

This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and as available, indicate links to alternate free versions. Five highlights from this post: Wall Street Banks, Executives and U.S. Regulators Raise Warnings over Lack of AI Security; Expecting job replacement by GenAI: effects on workers’ economic outlook and behavior; The Economics of Transformative AI; Artificial intelligence and human capital: challenges for central bank; and Rising Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Financial Operations

Subjects: AI in Banking and Finance, Congress, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, KM, Legal Research, Management

Trump Administration Continues Scrubbing Statistics and Disappearing Data

What is the status of the official data published by U.S. federal statistical agencies? As the current administration continues its disassembling of huge swaths of the federal government, not only are the workers and services gone, so of course is much of the data generated by those employees. And federal statistical data and datasets, whether census data or statistics on the economy, health, education, or other critical public matters, are what librarians and information professionals rely upon to answer patron questions and perform research and analysis for internal, data-driven projects. This article by Robert Berkman is a roundup of where these cuts and significant changes are happening and offers alternatives to locate datasets and statistical data that are no longer available.

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Economy, Education, Energy, Government Resources, Health, Healthcare, Legal Research, Medical Research