Anthropic x LSEG, Copilot Fall Update, HLTH ROI Signals, and MIT-IBM Insights
Quick scan of the AI news worth your time. Finance gets a powerful new data channel, Copilot levels up for teams, healthcare leaders share what is actually returning value, MIT-IBM shows the research that turns into revenue, and there are new U.S. rules and a court warning that should shape your governance plan. Dive in.
LSEG collaborates with Anthropic to bring more financial data into Claude for Enterprise
London Stock Exchange Group announced a collaboration with Anthropic to make more LSEG financial data accessible to Claude for Enterprise customers, enabling research and workflow agents on trusted market data. For financial firms and data-heavy enterprises, this points to faster diligence, automated reporting, and research assistants that can speak your internal and licensed datasets.
My take: Are there any data sets that would make a big difference for your business? We are working on acquiring the rights to include a key data set into a produce that we are making and it would give us a distinct advantage. We could serve our customers better by being able to answer many more questions and provide a more wholistic view with this outside data.
Link: Yahoo Finance
Microsoft’s Copilot fall release adds group collaboration, smarter guardrails, and health-focused modes
Microsoft rolled out a fall Copilot update that includes group chat for up to 32 participants, a more assertive mode that challenges incorrect assumptions, and new personalization features. For enterprises, this turns Copilot from a solo assistant into a team co-worker that can summarize threads, propose next steps, and keep everyone aligned. They also announced “connectors” and memory that remembers you in your chats. “Proactive Actions preview, currently rolling out in Deep Research, Copilot can surface timely insights and suggest next steps based on your recent activity or research threads.”
My take: If your team already licenses Copilot, try these new features, bring in a trainer to help them maximize what you are already paying for! Microsoft wants to be your one stop AI shop and they know they aren’t yet. (btw We are a certified Microsoft Partner now too)
Links: Microsoft
Health systems at HLTH focus on measurable ROI and workforce relief
From this week’s HLTH coverage, leaders emphasized that while pure financial ROI can be tricky to prove immediately, operations and satisfaction metrics are moving in the right direction with AI in areas like documentation and bed management. The takeaway for providers is to target throughput, time saved, and experience metrics first, then map to cost reduction over quarters.
My take: Do you trust AI in healthcare? Would you like an AI doctor? With my recent experiences I have used AI collaboratively with my doctors and they are open to it. They can’t possibly know everything, they are limited to their own experiences, AI is trained on decades of data.
Link: Healthcare Dive
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab on creating AI that actually matters for business
MIT highlights how the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab is making leaner, domain-tuned systems and translating research into enterprise outcomes. Expect more right-sized models, quantization, and sector partnerships that shorten the path from lab to P&L.
My take: Most companies don’t need the biggest model. You can use the smaller systems that meets your accuracy and latency bar, so value shows up in the workflow, not just the demo.
Link: MIT News
U.S. AI regulation and a court caution you should not ignore
Regulation: Legal analysts recap 2025 state moves on chatbots and disclosures, including California’s new requirements for AI companion systems and updated transparency timelines that impact platform providers. If you have customer-facing chat, you likely need clearer bot notices, crisis policies, and auditable logs.
Court: Two U.S. federal judges disclosed errors in rulings tied to unauthorized AI use by staff and interns, prompting tighter internal policies. The signal for businesses is simple: Require human-in-the-loop review and maintain a paper trail of sources and model versions for anything material.
Links: Regulation roundup Cooley and California-focused analysis Mayer Brown and reference trackers NCSL and California Senate; Court story Reuters
Tool Spotlight: HeyGen Interactivity for Learning teams
HeyGen just added Interactivity so you can place clickable elements and build branching paths inside your videos with no code. It is designed for Learning and Development teams on Enterprise plans and makes it easy to guide learners through personalized, choose-your-own-adventure experiences.
What it does
- Add clickable buttons, shapes, or text that either open external links or jump to another scene.
- Use Wait for Click to pause the video until the learner makes a choice, which helps confirm comprehension and control pacing.
- Visual indicators flag branched or skipped scenes so you can sanity check the flow.
Why it matters for business
Interactive training improves engagement and reduces rewatch time because learners self-navigate to what they need. Branching also helps you validate knowledge without extra authoring tools, which shortens L&D production cycles.
Quick start
- From your dashboard choose Create Video, then select Try now to open AI Studio in Interactivity mode.
- Pick a template or add any button, shape, or text to your canvas.
- Open the Interactivity panel and set the action: paste a URL link or choose Branching to jump to a destination scene.
- Leave Wait for Click on when a decision is required. Turn it off if you want the video to continue automatically.
- Click Preview to test every path, then Generate to publish.
Pro tips
- If you reorder scenes later, branching keeps pointing to the intended destination.
- Use Wait for Click on assessment moments like policy acknowledgments or scenario choices.
- Start with a short module and one decision point, then expand as you see where learners click.
Good to know
- Current interactive element types are text, shapes, and buttons. Images are not supported yet.
- Interactions do not run on the canvas while editing. Use Preview to test before you Generate.
Tools to try this week
- Pictory.ai – Create and edit professional quality videos (for social media, blogs, and other marketing materials) using text in minutes.
- Open Forge AI – AIO platform for mastering AI search, leveraging advanced AISEO and GEO-targeted insights to ensure your brand dominates the competition and wins more customers.
- Suno AI – AI-powered music creation platform that empowers anyone to instantly generate high-quality, and personalized songs from simple text prompts.
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Cheers,
-Nicole Donnelly
Founder, AI Smart Ventures
