Harneet Kaur, founder and CEO of Axim Intelligence and a former distressed credit investor, tests whether frontier models can reason about a live distressed situation, iHeartMedia. Two top models disagreed sharply on the odds of bankruptcy, but a layered reasoning process brought them to the same answer, raising the question of whether agreement is the same as being right.
Ryan Ahern of Exa explains how version-controlled search through Exa Snapshot lets you view the web as it existed on a past date, enabling backtests of AI agents while avoiding look-ahead bias. A hands-on acquisition-prediction exercise illustrates feature tuning and the dangers of overfitting without holdout sets.
LG AI Research introduces its advanced financial forecasting framework, which powers a US equities market ETF (LQAI) and a new "Master Score with Commentary" product with LSEG. The system uniquely combines structured financial data with unstructured text from news and reports, using the proprietary Exaone LLM and a multi-agent architecture to deliver explainable, accurate, and actionable market predictions across the entire US stock market.