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What the FCA’s latest findings mean for the engineering of reliable AI in financial services An AI system can pass its technical checks and still deliver a poor outcome. It can answer without inventing...
A few weeks ago I wrote about why I had moved most of my coding work from Claude Code to OpenAI Codex. Since then I have spent more time looking at GitHub Copilot, and...
Over the last year, I’ve been building Burhan: an AI platform designed specifically for the review of Islamic finance contracts and transactions. Burhan brings together Islamic finance contract review, consultation and institutional knowledge in...
When you call an AI model, where does your data actually go? For financial institutions, this is not a theoretical infrastructure question. It can determine your data-residency, governance and deployment options. The model provider’s...
These two terms get used interchangeably in almost every conversation I hear about AI in financial services. They shouldn’t be. They mean different things, they solve different problems, and confusing them creates a dangerous...
Global Islamic finance assets are approaching $6 trillion, with the LSEG-ICD 2025 report projecting the industry will reach $9.7 trillion by 2029. Yet most Sharia compliance tools are still doing what they did a...
Six months after its public release in May 2025, Claude Code reached $1 billion in run-rate revenue. More interesting than the revenue figure is how developers at Anthropic are using it. Claude Cowork: AI...
If you’re implementing AI in your business, one of the first decisions you’ll face is where to run your models. Here’s what you need to consider. 1. Cloud APIs: The Economics for Most Use...
You’ve mastered prompting Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4. You can make them write code, summarise text, and even reason through complex problems. But if you’ve tried to build a truly dynamic application around...
That massive pile of documents, emails, videos, and images your company’s been ignoring? It’s suddenly become the most valuable asset you’ve got. Welcome to the unstructured data renaissance, powered by generative AI. The 97%...
Something rather extraordinary is happening in the world of AI right now, and it’s about to transform how we collaborate with these systems completely. For the first time ever, AI models are learning to...
Here’s a question that’s causing boardroom headaches everywhere: Who the heck should actually be in charge of AI in your organisation? If you’re feeling confused about this, you’re not alone, it’s messier than a...