For the past two years, the story of AI on Wall Street has mostly been about speed.
Faster research, faster summaries, faster answers to questions an analyst would otherwise spend an afternoon on
That story is now changing shape. The systems now being built are not just answering questions about markets. They are starting to act in them.
Robinhood recently launched a beta version of agentic trading, where an AI system can place trades on a user’s behalf rather than simply suggesting them, Crypto Briefing reported. The company has been explicit that traders remain legally responsible for whatever the agent does, a distinction to which regulators have not yet fully caught up. Nvidia, separately, revealed it was partnering with software firms to build what CEO Jensen Huang called “teams of frontier, specialized and custom-built agents” for enterprise use, with adopters including Adobe, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Palantir, and Salesforce.