AI sparks wealth stocks plunge

Markets Insight: How the New AI Rival Is Driving Financial Stocks Under Massive Pressure

Another AI application surprises investors. This time it hits the shares of asset managers and brokers, also in Europe. It will have long-term consequences, says Astrid Dörner.

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Financial Times

Shares in UK wealth managers hit as AI contagion spreads

St James’s Place leads declines with double-digit slide on FTSE 100

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by Timothy D. McBride

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Timothy McBride

@mcbridetd.bsky.social

AI could transform the economy by year’s end www.vox.com/politics/478...

AI could transform the economy by year’s end

You just got more replaceable.

www.vox.com

February 11, 2026 at 12:20 PM

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The Wall Street Journal

St. James’s Place Leads European Wealth Managers’ Tumble on AI Threat

Wealth management is the latest sector to be threatened by competition from AI-powered startups.

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Renata Avila

@avilarenata.bsky.social

Do you know of anyone using automation and AI creatively to monitor corporate accountability?

February 11, 2026 at 10:33 AM

by Fabián Muniesa

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@provokedeconomy.bsky.social

"For this story, Fortune journalists used generative AI as a research tool."

February 11, 2026 at 10:22 AM

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Polity

@politybooks.bsky.social

"Charting AI’s development within its proper economic and geopolitical context...Srnicek’s guide can help us maintain a long-term, realistic perspective of the technology’s likely trajectory.”
@jacobinmag.bsky.social review @nsrnicek.bsky.social's 'Silicon Empires'

jacobin.com/2026/02/ai-b...

How Big Tech Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bombs

Until quite recently, many Big Tech firms opposed the militarization of AI, but that now seems like ancient history as they move to sign partnerships with arms companies. The prospect of lavish Pentag...

jacobin.com

February 11, 2026 at 10:12 AM

by Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

@rodriguez-pose.bsky.social

Maybe industrial policy isn’t picking winners but using the right mechanisms to innovate.
Zhuoying You & I show in @spatialeconomic.bsky.social that #AI adoption & #robots raise #innovation, especially in less innovative places and improve the returns of R&D spendomg.
doi.org/10.1080/1742...

AI and robotics as drivers of China’s urban innovation

Few studies have examined the economic consequences of deploying artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics in less-developed cities, where policies have often failed. To address this gap, we analys...

doi.org

February 11, 2026 at 8:47 AM

by Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose

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by Louis Moresi

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Louis Moresi

@louis.moresi.info

For all of you worrying that AI will outsmart us, here is some comfort (probably short lived though).

I don’t know how to describe this - a map of Australia with a random mix of states mapped out. They are in the wrong place with the wrong boundaries and a few random US states thrown in. WA has obviously paid some protection money to get the exactly correct spelling and location on the map …

February 11, 2026 at 7:52 AM

by Paul Davies

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Paul J Davies

@pauljdavies.bsky.social

In our fully automated AI future money itself could be just a hollow prop so there’ll definitely be no point to banks or money managers and an industry that continually reinvents ways to earn fees will be gone.
@opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

AI Threatens the Finance Industry's Perpetual Profit Machine

Artificial intelligence doesn’t only threaten to put herds of software businesses out to pasture. Anthropic PBC’s schooling of its Claude models in financial modelling has also sent a cold shiver down...

www.bloomberg.com

February 11, 2026 at 7:31 AM

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