Your AI Agent hit the corporate credit card limit. Here is how to stay in control. May 19, 2026 Executive Summary A new meme is circulating on LinkedIn: “I saved USD 5,000 on a junior developer and now spend USD 100,000 on API costs.” The joke lands because firms are actually seeing this. Deploying agents…
Can Your AI Agent Be Manipulated by a Website? We Tested It. April 21, 2026 Executive Summary A new independent study tested ten AI models against nine different prompt injection attacks embedded in a compromised website. The results are unambiguous: local open-weight models are highly vulnerable and rarely flag an attack as malicious. Frontier models…
My Laptop Works From Home while I am on a Business Trip to Zürich March 25, 2026 Executive Summary My laptop is executing tasks at home and I am steering it via voice command while sitting on the train to Zürich. I am not hallucinating. This is March 2026. Q1 2026 did not announce a…
Is the AI Race Just a Copycat Race? What This Means for Markets and Adopters February 24, 2026 Executive Summary Anthropic accuses Chinese labs of copying its frontier model through 16 million fraudulent exchanges. Software stocks recently sold-off drastically as AI enables firms to build cheap copies of established enterprise applications. As a consequence, firms…
From Outsourcing to AI-Sourcing: Why Smaller Firms Are the Real Winners of Agentic AI February 10, 2026 Executive Summary The $300 billion business process outsourcing industry is being disrupted by AI agents that can execute tasks previously delegated to offshore teams. While large banks like JPMorgan are investing billions to build proprietary AI platforms in-house,…
How to Reduce AI-Hallucinations: Control the Temperature January 15, 2026 Executive Summary In wealth management, precision is a fiduciary obligation. However, the typical AI systems many firms are adopting suffer from a fundamental flaw: hallucinations. While the industry focuses heavily on prompt engineering, a more critical aspect often goes overlooked – hyperparameter control, specifically temperature…
AI Browsers – The Future or a Cybersecurity Nightmare? November 26, 2025 Executive Summary AI browsers from OpenAI, Perplexity, and others promise to automate our daily online activities – from checking bank accounts to managing emails. But should wealth managers adopt them? This month, I spoke with Luke Jacobson, a cybersecurity researcher with private banking…
Allianz, Pictet or BNP – Which AI Investment Strategy is yours? November 7, 2025 Executive Summary Three distinct types of AI investment strategies have emerged in European wealth management: Type I: Humans invest in AI companies (thematic exposure) Type II: AI invests automatically (under human supervision) Type III: Humans invest with AI support (hybrid approach)…
Geneva Insights September 2025 September 30, 2025 Executive Summary September 2025 brought a concentrated series of AI events to Geneva, revealing a fundamental tension in AI adoption for wealth management: the choice between technological sovereignty and cutting-edge capabilities. While Switzerland’s Apertus continues developing its open approach, the month’s events and discussions illustrated the practical challenges…
Special Edition: Apertus – The Swiss AI September 5, 2025 Executive Summary Switzerland has entered the global AI race with Apertus, the country’s first large language model developed through a collaboration between ETH Zürich, EPFL, and the national supercomputing center CSCS in Lugano. Launched in September 2025, Apertus represents more than a technological achievement –…