By Joel Khalili
Publication Date: 2026-04-28 08:30:00
Because of its famous recalcitrance, the Bloomberg terminal has long inspired devotion bordering on obsession. Among traders, the ability to find a way through the software’s dizzying scrolls of numbers and text and isolate such far-flung information is the hallmark of a seasoned professional.
However, as more and more data is fed into the terminal – not just profits and asset prices, but also weather forecasts, shipping logs, factory locations, consumer spending, personal loans, etc. – valuable information is lost. “It has become increasingly unsustainable,” said Shawn Edwards, chief technology officer at Bloomberg. “You miss things or it takes too long.”
To fix the problem, Bloomberg is testing a chatbot-like interface for the terminal, ASKB (pronounced ask-bee), based on a basket of different language models. The general idea is to help financial professionals condense labor-intensive tasks and make it possible to test abstract investment theses against the…
