Finance research is being automated. News, guides and a vendor map on the AI tools, data and techniques changing the field, for researchers and students.https://aifinresearch.com/https://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-10-09-aacsb-2026-standards-do-not-name-ai/https://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-10-09-aacsb-2026-standards-do-not-name-ai/Its own research says 97 percent of schools already cite AI in accreditation materials and nearly half lack the governance to manage it. The standards are silent.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-10-09-academic-data-platform-query-layer/https://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-10-09-academic-data-platform-query-layer/AI assistants now ship with vendor data inside and recognize the licenses a user already holds. The query screen is the part of the platform that does not survive.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-10-09-academic-research-behind-ai-frontier/https://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-10-09-academic-research-behind-ai-frontier/A paper about a model is out of date before it clears review. In mathematics, the newest results come from a model no academic can run.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-10-09-ai-has-arrived-vendors-cannot-police-agents/https://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-10-09-ai-has-arrived-vendors-cannot-police-agents/Agents now operate a computer better than the human baseline on the standard test. Licenses forbid most AI use of data, and almost none of it can be detected.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-10-09-build-your-own-dataset-from-the-source/https://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-10-09-build-your-own-dataset-from-the-source/Filings, financial statements and earnings calls were public before any vendor packaged them. An agent can go back to the source, and the tools to do it are free.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-10-09-pay-for-transcripts-in-the-age-of-agents/https://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-10-09-pay-for-transcripts-in-the-age-of-agents/An agent now does the cleaning, splitting and scoring that used to justify a data budget. What it cannot produce is history, identifiers and the right to use the text.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-10-09-researchers-use-ai-against-the-rules/https://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-10-09-researchers-use-ai-against-the-rules/At a major 2026 conference, more than one in five reviewers who were told not to use an LLM used one anyway. The fear driving that is rational.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-10-06-openai-math-results-release/https://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-10-06-openai-math-results-release/The results come from an internal model. OpenAI says the average result used compute equal to roughly three hours of ChatGPT Pro thinking.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-10-03-factorbench-automated-factor-mining/https://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-10-03-factorbench-automated-factor-mining/FactorBench compares roughly five thousand machine-mined factors across five equity markets, from genetic programming to LLM agents.Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-09-27-evermine-self-evolving-alpha-research/https://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-09-27-evermine-self-evolving-alpha-research/Across 18 long-horizon alpha-research runs and 48 continuation branches, evolved capabilities did not reliably beat the starting set.Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-09-25-llm-text-measures-diverge-across-models/https://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-09-25-llm-text-measures-diverge-across-models/Across thirteen text measures on S&P 500 transcripts, the choice of model changes the size, sign and significance of downstream coefficients.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-09-23-measurement-error-ai-literature-reviews/https://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-09-23-measurement-error-ai-literature-reviews/A test on economics papers that use rainfall as an instrument finds accuracy falls as the reading task needs more context.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-09-22-propose-dont-judge-factor-referee/https://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-09-22-propose-dont-judge-factor-referee/A working paper splits factor research in two and finds that a referee the agent cannot touch admits 5 to 11 times fewer false factors.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-09-15-ai-in-science-early-insights/https://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-09-15-ai-in-science-early-insights/A study of 15 million Gemini interactions, over 2,600 specialized models and a survey of over 600 scientists maps how AI is used in research.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-07-28-aacsb-ai-framework-84-schools/https://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-07-28-aacsb-ai-framework-84-schools/The report series went from 26 institutions in July 2025 to 48 in January 2026 and 84 in July, and it names faculty development as the critical success factor.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-06-10-wrds-ask-ai-chatbot-first-public-review/https://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-06-10-wrds-ask-ai-chatbot-first-public-review/Librarians in Singapore tested the beta and found it useful for locating variables, unreliable on first try and capped at six questions a session.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-03-23-review-of-finance-llm-policy/https://aifinresearch.com/news/2026-03-23-review-of-finance-llm-policy/The journal's LLM policy also requires authors to disclose any AI use in the cover letter and in the manuscript, and limits referees to supportive use.Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT