Taktile CEO Maik Taro Wehmeyer Takes A.I. to Wall Street in Bold Lobster Stunt

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Taktile CEO Maik Taro Wehmeyer Takes A.I. to Wall Street in Bold Lobster Stunt

The Taktile chief uses art and symbolism to introduce a lab aimed at making A.I. safer and smarter for financial institutions.

When searching for a way to unite A.I. and Wall Street, Maik Taro Wehmeyer, CEO of A.I. financial services firm Taktile, decided to go literal. Earlier this week, Taktile placed a 300-pound statue of a lobster—a symbol now associated with A.I. due to the OpenClaw agents popularized on Moltbook—in front of Wall Street’s famed Charging Bull for a symbolic face-off.

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The stunt quickly went viral. Peter Steinberger, the founder of OpenClaw, chimed in, as did Kate Rouch, OpenAI’s chief marketing officer. After the lobster was hauled........

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