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Inside the Room: The Founders, Investors and Operators at Observer’s A.I. Power Index Party

Founders, CEOs and investors packed Dante Elizabeth Street as Bloomberg's Shawn Edwards and Candidly's Laurel Taylor accepted Observer's 2026 A.I. awards. Here's who was in the room.

On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 145 founders, CEOs, investors and executives crowded around the horseshoe bar at Dante Elizabeth Street, days before its public opening, for Observer’s inaugural A.I. Power Index Party. Among the guests were people who decide how A.I. reaches the financial system, and who it reaches.

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Shawn Edwards, the Bloomberg CTO who turned the Terminal into an A.I.-native system, accepted the 2026 A.I. Enterprise Award. Laurel Taylor, whose company Candidly is the A.I. layer the largest financial institutions use to guide customers through debt and savings decisions, took the A.I. Transformer Award. Jeff McMillan, who built and ran artificial intelligence at Morgan Stanley for more than a........

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