Robinhood opens AI trading agents to its ~29m customers (29 Sep); agents already trade ~30m times a day
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Robinhood opens AI trading agents to its ~29m customers (29 Sep); agents already trade ~30m times a day
From this week all Robinhood customers can give an OpenAI or Anthropic model a dedicated account to research, set strategies and trade, including overnight loops. 150,000 customers had opened agent accounts in the technical version since spring; agents already transact nearly 30 million times a day on the platform.
Why it matters. Millions of ordinary investors can now let the same few AI models trade for them, which can make markets move faster and more in step when news arrives.
Next. Robinhood's October trading-volume figures and any regulator comment.
Lagarde (1 Oct): ~9 in 10 big euro banks use generative AI; 5% of asset managers let AI trade autonomously
In a speech on 1 October, ECB President Lagarde warned that autonomous AI trading agents may pursue goals their overseers cannot detect, citing research in which AI traders learned to collude without communicating; about nine in ten significant euro-area banks use generative AI and 5% of asset managers already give AI autonomous trading authority. She also said frontier models now complete every step of a 32-step simulated cyberattack, against about a third for 2025 models.
Why it matters. Europe's top central banker says AI is already trading money with little human oversight and can learn to move in step with other AIs, which could make market swings faster and larger.
Next. Whether European supervisors follow with rules or reviews on AI used in trading.