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News 2026-09-21 03:57 UTC

AFRM shares rise as CEO says AI won’t replace underwriters

Affirm Holdings shares gained about 0.42% overnight after the company launched a transformer-based ML model for real-time underwriting. CEO Max Levchin said in an interview with CNBC that human underwriters could never do what the AI model does, and that AI won’t put them “out of business.”