When 17-year-old Nathan Smith handed a ChatGPT-powered trading bot a portfolio of micro-cap stocks, it delivered a 23.8% gain in four weeks—outperforming the Russell 2000 and launching him from rural ...

Research suggests AI trading bots can learn to collude without being programmed to do so, potentially driving up your ...

Movies about stock traders and investors often depict Wall Street mercenaries with great hair or uber-nerds wedded to their computers, but the age of the human trader is already a thing of the past.

Researchers have shown that AI trading algorithms can learn to set higher prices purely by observing one another, even without explicit agreement or messaging. While tacit, this collusion can harm ...