Dr Andrea Lagna, @andrealagna.bsky.social, an expert in Information Systems and Political Economy, believes we can create a future where AI-driven business success goes hand-in-hand with the responsible management of our resources. 🧵(2/6)
Andrea Lagna
@andrealagna.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Information Systems at The University of Manchester #AI #Fintech lagna.io
A special welcome to the inaugural cohort of MSc Digital Transformation students at Alliance Manchester Business School! 🎉 As Program Director, it’s a privilege to open this new chapter with talented students and colleagues. 🤗📚 #AMBS #OriginalThinkingApplied #DigitalTransformation #Sustainability
Please remember the difference between open weight and open source AI www.ft.com/content/4f77...
OpenAI releases open models to compete with China’s DeepSeek
Launch of free and more transparent AI systems marks departure from group’s subscription-based closed approach
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But we’ve now decided to start a new series of Q&A style interviews that we’ll run weekly on FTAV. The first one up is with Gappy Paleologo, Balyasny’s head of quant research. Hope you enjoy it! on.ft.com/4kFDw4H
FTAV Q&A: Gappy Paleologo
Balyasny Asset Management’s head of quantitative research talks algos, hedge funds, correlations and cats
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Very proud to present a new paper out in Environment and Planning A. I look at how real estate actors re-framed Lisbon as a viable investment destination in the post-crisis era, which today means the city has some of the highest housing costs in Europe. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Re-framing a semi-periphery: The making of Lisbon as a global real estate market - Rafaella Lima, 2025
This paper examines how Lisbon transformed from a city widely seen as a crisis-ridden ‘no-go’ zone into an ideal real estate investment destination. This redesi...
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Thrilled to share that the Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure, co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Barbara Brandl, has been published! You can find all chapters open access: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
Cambridge Core - Finance and Accountancy - The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
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@caseycrownhart.bsky.social and I spent months reporting together and found the common understanding of AI's energy appetite to be full of holes. As Big Tech aims to restructure our energy grids around the needs of AI, we dive as deep as one can go. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
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Great to present my paper “Theorizing the Sustainability Paradox of AI” with Sun Hye Lee at the Theorizing Data & AI workshop, VU Amsterdam. We study how firms strategize for sustainable AI. Join the convo and fantastic community: www.linkedin.com/groups/93605... #AI #Sustainability #DigitalStrategy
Looking forward to chairing a fantastic panel on “Fintech Policy for Productivity and Growth” at Innovate Finance UK Fintech Academic Network (UKFAN) Conference! Fintech policymaking plays a key role in unlocking innovation and supporting sustainable growth☀️ www.innovatefinance.com/events/uk-fi...
UK FinTech Academic Network (UKFAN) Annual Conference 2025 - Innovate Finance – The Voice of Global FinTech
Registrations are now closed. The UKFAN welcomes you to the 3rd Annual Conference taking place during the UK FinTech Week on Thursday, 1st May 2025. We
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Great STS conference in Zurich ⬇️🤓 www.linkedin.com/posts/lengle...
STS-CH Conference 2025 | Marc LENGLET
STS-CH 25 conference in Zurich (Sept. 10-12): open panel! Has critique of algorithms run out of steam? Social studies of AI, machine learning, and big data in questions. Panel abstract: Over at lea...
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Start-ups developing AI-powered apps have attracted $8.2bn of funding in 2024. Competition heats up in the app layer of the Generative AI stack.
Andrea Lagna@andrealagna.bsky.social · 2y agoGood way to map the generative AI stack. Particularly interesting the focus on 'agentic orchestration layer' with software frameworks like LangChain and crewAI. www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/is...
Bond sell-off as a tool of financialized statecraft could be more effective than retaliation tariffs.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.Yields on U.S. Treasuries rose Wednesday as investors sold government bonds, usually a haven. In Britain, a sustained version of that trend in 2022 led to the downfall of Liz Truss, the country's shortest-serving prime minister.
I tried out an AI-generated podcast based on my paper Asset Manager Capitalism and the Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence, recently published open access in @ripejournal.bsky.social ...It turned out pretty cool—give it a listen 🎧 lagna.io/notebook/inv...
Podcast | Investment giants in the AI age — Andrea Lagna.
Imagine a world where your financial future is increasingly made by AI…
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Academics and practitioners often forget that digital transformation is not an exogenous external force. We should ask how it is socially constructed; who benefits and who loses in the digital age.
This quote shows the centrality of data and AI strategy for investment giants rendering private markets legible: Preqin [...] will enable BlackRock to bring “clearer, more timely data” to the industry, making it “possible to index private markets just like we do now with the S&P 500”.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last yr.Larry Fink warns ‘protectionism has returned with force’ as Trump tariffs loom https://www.ft.com/content/6e1783ef-8e05-446b-be23-6458c6e80dfa
This is cool stuff. Acopia, from Melbourne 🌙 m.youtube.com/watch?v=9XRu...
Be Enough
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Been working for some time on fintech policymaking with fantastic colleagues at AMBS and Telfer. Look forward to presenting at the Journal of Association for Information Systems (JAIS) workshop on Creating Policy Impact through Information Systems (IS) Research. #fintech #AI #blockchain #IS #policy
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Excited to share that The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure, co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Barbara Brandl, is on its way! Expected publication date is May 2025. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
My article Asset Manager Capitalism and the Political Economy of AI now has a home in Review of IPE—with volume and issue numbers! 🤓 If you're interested in exploring AI-driven market power and ways to democratize the age of AI, check it out and let’s connect! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The philosopher Carl Mitcham distinguishes between engineering and humanities approaches to tech philosophy. The first sees tech as an efficiency tool. The second asks whether a given tech is desirable and just. I'm leaving it there. Use it as you please to interpret AI, current affairs, etc.
a man in a suit and tie is crying and saying we have the technology .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is crying and saying we have the technology .
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Tired of the World Surf League CT and QS model. I'd like to see 5-10 top surfers on the most beautiful waves: Pipe, Teahupo'o, Cloudbreak, JBay
A 3-hour, 31-minute, and 23-second-long deep dive into LLMs by Andrej Karpathy. Just, WOW! www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
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Developing classes for a new course titled Organizing and Managing Change in the Digital Age. It's nice to go back to Orlikowski's duality of tech. A truly foundational statement.
"The most damaging consequence of the contemporary financial system is not simply recurrent financial crises, but a widening social divide between the haves and have-nots." Such an amazing book by Lin and Neely. Check it out. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Going back to the good old financialization debate, do you like this definition I always had in mind but never used? "Financialization is the increasing role of market-based, risk-oriented finance in human activities and the environment." Feel free to suggest edits 😊
The battle for AI compute is being fought on chips suitable for the inference phase (e.g., when chatgpt gives you an answer). But, there's a catch not explained in the article: models like chatgpt need constant fine-tuning, so the line between training and inference is blurry.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last yr.How ‘inference’ is driving competition to Nvidia’s AI chip dominance https://www.ft.com/content/d5c638ad-8d34-4884-a08c-a551588a9a28
CoreWeave: founded in 2017 as a crypto farm, pivoted to AI-focused neocloud service in 2019, borrows lots of money from investment giants secured against a Nvidia GPUs, benefits from preferential access to Nvidia's GPUs and the latter's diversification strategy away from big tech cloud systems.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last yr.OpenAI strikes $12bn deal with CoreWeave https://www.ft.com/content/4b52fdbb-ca8e-4208-bb99-f1e7f9313863