cybersecurity

community banks

One attacker used AI to steal thousands of credentials in under six hours

Sep 10, 2026

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5 min read

One attacker used AI to steal thousands of credentials in under six hours

Plus: agents inside bank transaction systems, agent IDs, and a $1B AI security program prioritizing community FIs.

Brent Dixon

agentic commerce

Blend's mortgage agent reaches 50,000 loans

Sep 3, 2026

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4 min read

Blend's mortgage agent reaches 50,000 loans

Plus: an AI bill negotiator, China's agent-payment agreement, and when agents need people.

Brent Dixon

community banks

PenFed's new AI agent will move members' money

Aug 14, 2026

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5 min read

PenFed's new AI agent will move members' money

Plus: agents opening accounts, compliance priced per case, and six runs that got outside.

Brent Dixon

community banks

Aug 6, 2026

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5 min read

Critical cyber repairs in 75% less time

Plus: 12,500 banker hours saved in a month, appraisal review time down 70%, and coding agents that share their suffering.

Brent Dixon

compliance

Jul 30, 2026

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5 min read

The 80-agent chain behind one loan

Plus: a credit union checked every indirect auto loan file, bad links make secret agents, and the flowchart for every AI crisis.

Brent Dixon

credit unions

Two banks put AI agents to work. OpenAI's agents broke out and broke in.

Jul 23, 2026

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3 min read

Two banks put AI agents to work. OpenAI's agents broke out and broke in.

Plus: Fiserv joins the group governing an agent-payment standard, HSBC tests a live AI purchase, and Visa builds an assistant for bank apps.

Brent Dixon

agentic commerce

Jul 8, 2026

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4 min read

The ransomware attack that ran itself.

Plus: AI agents went live buying from stores, and bank AI bills keep climbing.

Brent Dixon

open source

+10

May 28, 2026

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4 min read

A 3-minute mortgage. How?

Plus: BNP's open-model bet, the 3% controls gap, and a nice conversation starter.

Brent Dixon

infrastructure

May 20, 2026

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5 min read

When the agent fails, who's liable?

Plus: four deployments hit 70% automation, Colorado's AI deadline, and a kill switch that came too late.

Brent Dixon

agentic commerce

+11

Four Takeaways from Anthropic's Financial Services Briefing

May 8, 2026

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6 min read

Four Takeaways from Anthropic's Financial Services Briefing

Customer deployments, new agent templates, a leadership question, and three lessons from CIOs

Brent Dixon

agentic commerce

+10

May 6, 2026

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7 min read

Stripe rewired the credit card.

Plus: Two payment primitives, JPMorgan's permissions playbook, and helpful agentic security guidance from the five eyes.

Brent Dixon

credit unions

The Claude Mythos Red Team Report: What Credit Union Leaders Need to Know

Apr 9, 2026

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8 min read

The Claude Mythos Red Team Report: What Credit Union Leaders Need to Know

A special report

Brent Dixon

cybersecurity

One attacker used AI to steal thousands of credentials in under six hours

Blend's mortgage agent reaches 50,000 loans

PenFed's new AI agent will move members' money

Critical cyber repairs in 75% less time

The 80-agent chain behind one loan

Two banks put AI agents to work. OpenAI's agents broke out and broke in.

The ransomware attack that ran itself.

A 3-minute mortgage. How?

When the agent fails, who's liable?

Four Takeaways from Anthropic's Financial Services Briefing

Stripe rewired the credit card.

The Claude Mythos Red Team Report: What Credit Union Leaders Need to Know

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