AI chat assistants can now keep watching markets for you

Until now, AI chat assistants mostly answered a question and stopped. A new update from FinTech Studios, a New York market and regulatory data company, lets the assistant keep watching a topic after the chat ends. Version 1.1 of its connector was announced October 22, 2026. It works with Claude, Perplexity, ChatGPT and other assistants that support an open standard called the Model Context Protocol, which lets AI tools connect to outside data.

What changed

The first version of the connector let an assistant search news and summarize it, with each claim linked to its source. The new version lets the assistant create and adjust standing watches. A user can ask it to track a topic, then have it write a cited analysis on a schedule and add that analysis to a daily brief.

• Four types of watch lists: global news, stock portfolios, regulators and prediction markets.
• Stock tickers are checked, and symbols the system does not recognize are flagged.
• Watches can be adjusted later by adding or removing keywords, companies and tickers.
• Analysis formats include Executive Summary, Trend Analysis and Key Questions.

How it works in practice

The company gives examples. An advisor asks about a semiconductor sell-off, then says to track Micron and Sandisk as a portfolio with a Trend Analysis every Friday at 4:30. A compliance lead asks for a weekday 7 a.m. watch on SEC crypto enforcement, then trims noise by telling the assistant to exclude stablecoin marketing news. By default, a scheduled analysis runs daily at 6 a.m. in the user's time zone, and the first one is produced right away.

Built-in limits

The assistant asks the user to confirm every change before it is made. The connector can only create and update items. It cannot delete anything, and it cannot send anything on the user's behalf. For anyone wary of handing tasks to an AI, those limits are the main safeguard the company points to.

Who it affects

The company aims the update at professionals such as portfolio managers, advisors, compliance officers and research analysts. Its revenue chief said it suits anyone from an individual advisor on its Free plan to a large compliance team. Anyone who follows stocks or regulators for work could use it to get regular updates without opening another app.

What is not known yet

The details come from the company's own announcement. The material does not say which features are included on the Free plan, what paid plans cost, or how the tool performs in independent testing.