The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday edition that RBC chief executive officer Dave McKay starts every morning with a briefing from agentic artificial intelligence tools that he helped design. The Globe's Stefanie Marotta writes that for at least an hour, Mr. McKay reviews a report generated by the AI platform on what it thinks the CEO of Canada's biggest bank needs to know on key issues. The tools span critical topics, including the economy, markets, consumer behaviour, risk and mortgage data -- themes that are top-of-mind for business leaders as trade routes are redrawn and countries brace for major shifts in global relationships. "It allowed me to be more efficient with my team," Mr. McKay told Bloomberg. "Instead of sending an e-mail at night, asking to produce a report, getting that report a week later, digesting it, calling them about the answer, I get that report in about four seconds." The platform was built by a team at RBC and pulls information from troves of internal data, as well as external sources. He said the group is also building a personnel module to examine talent. RBC is betting big on AI. The lender expects to generate between $700-million to $1-billion in enterprise value from AI by 2027.
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