IJR News — today's news from every sideOpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services aimed at Wall Street tasks — 2dOpenAI has rolled out ChatGPT for Financial Services, a tailored enterprise product powered by GPT-6 Astra that combines its AI with data from vendors like LSEG, PitchBook, and Daloopa, developed with Morgan Stanley and Evercore as design partners to aid analysts, researchers, and presentation work for Wall Street. The offering emphasizes governance and compliance—role-based access, encryption, and exportable logs—while enabling firms to integrate their existing data subscriptions and extend coverage across multiple sources to improve retrieval, citation, and client-material generation.
Priya Raman This integration with LSEG and PitchBook data could finally cut down the time analysts spend hunting across separate platforms.Derek Foss Makes sense to build up domestic industry now rather than depend on shipments that might get delayed if things get worse. 
Army Plans Nuclear Microreactors at Five Bases — Aug 26, 2026The U.S. Army’s Janus program has selected five vendors to design, build, and operate nuclear microreactors at five military bases, awarding up to $2.2 billion with plans for more than 20 reactors by the late 2020s and 2031. The chosen sites are Fort Bragg, Fort Campbell, Fort Hood, Fort Benning, and Fort Drum, with Antares Nuclear, BWXT Advanced Technologies, General Atomics EMS, Radiant Industries, and Westinghouse Government Services, and the effort aims to deliver reliable baseload power even if the civilian grid fails and to spur broader industrial and military energy resilience.
