Investors, Companies Capitalize on AI-Parsed Financial Filings

AI models are helping investors speed up analysis of lengthy corporate filings while savvy companies are exploiting the weaknesses of the new tools.

Investors are using artificial intelligence models to speed up research, easing the laborious process of comparing documents across years to find changes in information. Some companies, meanwhile, are drafting their filings in a way that AI models would be more likely to miss or downplay information that executives don’t want to highlight.

The Securities and Exchange Commission under the Trump administration has contended that required corporate filings such as annual financial reports can be far too long ...