BlackRock Has Built an AI Analyst, ‘Asimov,’ to Scan Filings

The Blackrock headquarters in New York

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BlackRock Inc. is planning for artificial intelligence to have a much bigger role in investing.

The world’s largest asset manager has built an AI research platform dubbed “Asimov” and is using it now in the firm’s fundamental equity business, Chief Operating Officer Rob Goldstein said Thursday at the firm’s investor day in New York.