Welcome to the news highlights of this week.

- Bambu launches a next-gen financial planning solution

- Docupace amplifies its executive team

- Finnovate nets almost $1 million to scale

- Skience presents a tiered platform for wealth managers

- Hedgehog raises more funds than it aimed at

- Ellevest shares alarming figures

- Financial Advisor has current trends in financial advice on the radar

Let’s get each in the spotlight.

While Python and R have traditionally been the most popular languages for building AI, ML, and DS solutions, Java has emerged as a preferred choice for companies of all stripes.

In this post, I’ll show why fintechs ramp up their use of Java for creating next-level AI.

Staffing a team has become part of a CTO’s responsibility—and an increasingly pressing issue for these tech execs. Currently, outsourcing wins their choice as an effective way to lure in rare talents, and a recent report by Commit USA backs this tendency.

Find out the report's key findings and the main benefits of outsourcing a tech team, and see if concerns around this approach prove well-founded.