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Latent SpaceArticle2d ago

Using Agents for Long-Horizon Financial Work — Aman Singh, Arca

Agents in financial work are moving from demo to production. Arca's custom harness and persistent state approach suggests the infrastructure bar for multi-step reasoning over extended timescales is becoming clear. The win here isn't the agent concept, it's proving reliability in a domain with real liability. For builders: this is a reference implementation for how to structure agent workflows when mistakes cost money.

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Latent SpaceArticleClaude Watch19d ago

Crossing the Threshold: How OpenAI and Anthropic Approach Autonomy and Safety in Financial Agents

This is the real frontier question right now: how much agency can you give an LLM in high-stakes domains without breaking the control budget. Both labs are shipping financial agents but with different constraint models. For builders: the conference showed what safe autonomy looks like in practice—study what each lab is doing to delegation and approval chains. For investors: whoever solves the agency problem cleanly will own financial services.

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