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LLaPipe: LLM-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Automated Data Preparation Pipeline Construction
Jing Chang, Chang Liu, Jinbin Huang, Rui Mao, Jianbin Qin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13712

LLaPipe: LLM-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Automated Data Preparation Pipeline Construction
Automated data preparation is crucial for democratizing machine learning, yet existing reinforcement learning (RL) based approaches suffer from inefficient exploration in the vast space of possible preprocessing pipelines. We present LLaPipe, a novel framework that addresses this exploration bottleneck by integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) as intelligent policy advisors. Unlike traditional methods that rely solely on statistical features and blind trial-and-error, LLaPipe leverages the se…

Formal verification for robo-advisors: Irrelevant for subjective end-user trust, yet decisive for investment behavior?
Alina Tausch, Magdalena Wischnewski, Mustafa Yalciner, Daniel Neider
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08540

Formal verification for robo-advisors: Irrelevant for subjective end-user trust, yet decisive for investment behavior?
This online-vignette study investigates the impact of certification and verification as measures for quality assurance of AI on trust and use of a robo-advisor. Confronting 520 participants with an imaginary situation where they were using an online banking service to invest their inherited money, we formed 4 experimental groups. EG1 achieved no further information of their robo-advisor, while EG2 was informed that their robo-advisor was certified by a reliable agency for unbiased processes, an…

EU Protective Security Advisors
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Robo-Advisors Beyond Automation: Principles and Roadmap for AI-Driven Financial Planning
Runhuan Feng, Hong Li, Ming Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09922 https://

Robo-Advisors Beyond Automation: Principles and Roadmap for AI-Driven Financial Planning
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming financial planning by expanding access, lowering costs, and enabling dynamic, data-driven advice. Yet without clear safeguards, digital platforms risk reproducing longstanding market inefficiencies such as information asymmetry, misaligned incentives, and systemic fragility. This paper develops a framework for responsible AI in financial planning, anchored in five principles: fiduciary duty, adaptive personalization, technical robustness, ethical and…

Savvy Wealth, a digital wealth management service for financial advisors, raised a $72M Series B led by Industry Ventures, taking its total funding to $100M (Davis Janowski/Wealth Management)
https://www.wealthmanagement.com/ria-news/

Savvy Wealth Raises $72M, Adds Mark Casady to Board of Directors
Savvy Wealth, a technology platform provider to RIAs, announced the closing of a $72 million Series B funding round led by venture capital firm Industry Ventures.

For the millionth time, #FuckEricAdams. He was always a goddamned fascist republican cop, and the fact that he ran and won as a democrat speaks volumes about how fucked up NYC voting is. https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff…

In the days before the surprise U.S. attack on Iran, Politico reported that
one man in the Defense Department was having an outsized say on Washington’s Iran strategy:
Erik Kurilla, the hawkish U.S. Central Command leader known as “The Gorilla.”
“He’s a big dude, he’s jacked, he’s exactly this ‘lethality’ look they’re going for,” said an anonymous former official.
So long as military advisors “come across as tough and warfighters,”
the source added, Defense S…

Hypermasculinity Is Driving U.S. Foreign Policy
Trump’s approach to Iran shows that America’s crisis of manhood has hit the global stage.

@… Hard to see how proxy advice is investment advice, especially when the SEC has said you can't pay proxy advisors with soft dollars.

Once I'm settled there (moving early Aug) I'll probably write a blog post about the process and doing it without any lawyers/immigration advisors, etc.

Winnipeg-based Conquest Planning, which uses AI to help financial advisors and other clients make decisions, raised an $80M Series B led by Goldman Sachs (Jon Fingas/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/conquest-planning-

Conquest Planning raises $110-million Series B to fuel US expansion of its financial management platform | BetaKit
Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives led the Winnipeg startup’s latest funding round.

AutoIndexer: A Reinforcement Learning-Enhanced Index Advisor Towards Scaling Workloads
Taiyi Wang, Eiko Yoneki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23084 https://arx…

AutoIndexer: A Reinforcement Learning-Enhanced Index Advisor Towards Scaling Workloads
Efficiently selecting indexes is fundamental to database performance optimization, particularly for systems handling large-scale analytical workloads. While deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has shown promise in automating index selection through its ability to learn from experience, few works address how these RL-based index advisors can adapt to scaling workloads due to exponentially growing action spaces and heavy trial and error. To address these challenges, we introduce AutoIndexer, a fram…