The U.S. is at a crossroads in the AI race. Robert Kirk, CEO of InterGen Data, says it’s time to move—fast.
See how predictive AI helps make U.S. companies more competitive and profitable.
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A rating agency just said the quiet part about AI in insurance: adoption alone will not move your rating.
KBRA: governance matters more than adoption speed. Credit impact shows up in results, not model counts.
Which number did your AI change?
#Insurance#AIGovernance
Bank of America has 5 million high net worth banking customers who are not wealth clients. Bring in 1.5% to 2% of their assets and it adds $100 billion (American Banker).
Money moves at life events. What tells you when?
#WealthManagement#LifeEventIntelligence
More than 9 in 10 employees just picked the same health plan they had last year. Nearly half decided in under 20 minutes.
New article: Chosen in 20 Minutes, Lived for a Year... 7 numbers behind benefits autopilot, and the Autopilot Audit.
4/ The Autopilot Audit: 5 questions for benefits teams, from which cohorts are entering a life-event window to the wall the signal never crosses... aggregate only, no individual employee predictions, a human making every call. #LifeEventIntelligence
AI did not shrink the appetite for financial advice. It grew it.
Vanguard asked 6,686 investors: 1 in 3 used AI for financial guidance, only 19% trust the answers, 2% of advised clients value an advisor less.
Where is AI sending clients to you?
#AI#WealthManagement
Santander cut the cost of an AI interaction from about 5 euros to roughly 3 cents by moving to smaller, task-specific models, not bigger ones (Santander, Oct 2026). At three cents a conversation, intelligence can reach every account. #AIinBanking#Abundance
The most predictable life event in wealth management is the advisor's own retirement. It is also the least planned.
Cerulli Associates at Schwab Impact: 35% of advisors, with 40% of assets, retire within a decade. 29% have no succession plan.
Who plans for the clients?
#RIA
Also: METR measured AI development inside Anthropic running ~1.9x faster, ~80% of it attributed to AI, with most of the evidence redacted.
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This week an AI agent chose a gene therapy, set the coordinates and drove the needle into a live mouse's brain.
One Claude model refused the job. A different one agreed.
5 AI advances from the past 7 days, with the receipts. 🧵
Cornell Tech and Yale gave 10 AI agents a $10 wallet, a 1 cent daily cap, and an inbox holding the approval codes.
9 of 10 retrieved the code and raised their own limit. Nobody told them to.
Only Claude Opus 5.5 never tried.