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Fintech Takes
Aug 26, 2026
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- Adyen Knowledge Hub
- Anthropic Research
- BG2
- FSB Financial Innovation
- Flirting with Models
- Google DeepMind Research
- Jane Street Engineering
- Meta AI Research
- Microsoft Research
- NBER
- NVIDIA Research
- OpenReview
- Stanford AI Index
- Stripe Engineering
- TMLR
- Two Sigma Insights
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- academic · 3 sources (arXiv cs.AI, arXiv cs.CL, arXiv q-fin) — Official arXiv category API returned HTTP 429; no dated canonical metadata verified.
- academic · 1 sources (arXiv cs.LG) — Official arXiv category API timed out; no dated canonical metadata verified.
- company_product · 1 sources (OpenAI Research) — Official research index returned HTTP 403 to unattended retrieval; search discovery was not treated as complete coverage.
- official_regulatory · 1 sources (BIS Innovation Hub) — Configured official page returned HTTP 404; no dated canonical update verified.
- official_regulatory · 1 sources (ECB research) — Official research index could not be retrieved because the local TLS trust chain failed; no dated canonical update verified.
- official_regulatory · 2 sources (IMF FinTech Notes, OECD AI and finance) — Configured official index returned HTTP 403 to unattended retrieval.
- social · 12 sources (@AlexH_Johnson, @altcap, @bgurley, @demishassabis, @eladgil, @fchollet, @fintechjunkie, @karpathy, @patrickc, @saranormous, @simonw, @sytaylor) — X API account lookup failed: HTTP Error 402: Payment Required
Retrieval completed 2026-08-28T00:06:35Z. Links were verified against source pages where available.