infrastructure

credit unions

Aug 21, 2026

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5 min read

Who’s choosing your AI models?

Plus: Stripe's model gateway, payments foundation models, a lending agent, and agents with their own company cards.

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

model risk

750+ community FIs are getting an AI agent marketplace

Jul 16, 2026

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4 min read

750+ community FIs are getting an AI agent marketplace

Plus: bunq rebuilt its assistant three times before reaching 97% of interactions and Blend took mortgage pre-underwriting live.

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

The U.S. gated its newest AI models. A Chinese lab gave one away.

Jun 30, 2026

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3 min read

The U.S. gated its newest AI models. A Chinese lab gave one away.

Plus: agents moving from scoring the loan to making the call, and a malicious AI tool that cleared review and reached 26,000 users.

Brent Dixon

model risk

+10

Treat your AI agent like an inside threat

Jun 24, 2026

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7 min read

Treat your AI agent like an inside threat

Plus: Lloyds aims AI agents at the moment of payment, an $88-a-week kit that clones trusted-brand sites, and Santander open-sources its AI guardrails.

Brent Dixon

credit unions

An AI is negotiating repayment plans over the phone.

Jun 9, 2026

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4 min read

An AI is negotiating repayment plans over the phone.

Plus: The 3 rules for putting agents in production, and an AI maturity model from Carnegie Mellon and Accenture.

Brent Dixon

personalfinancialmanagement

+10

What did PenFed get from AI that Uber didn't? Results.

Jun 4, 2026

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5 min read

What did PenFed get from AI that Uber didn't? Results.

Plus: AI bills outrunning proof of value, a bank CEO's "human capital" apology, and a Try This to pressure-test any agent before it goes live.

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

+12

May 13, 2026

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5 min read

The model is not the product.

Plus: AWS agentic payments, a Microsoft prompt-injection flaw, AI liability carve-outs, and a bank scramble over Mythos.

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

+10

This is the doomsday issue (don't panic)

Apr 29, 2026

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6 min read

This is the doomsday issue (don't panic)

A corner of AI safety research has been studying catastrophic AI failure modes for over a decade, and community finance has a seat at the table.

Brent Dixon

credit unions

Apr 22, 2026

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5 min read

An Account for Every Agent

Plus: Claude Design, Gradient Labs on banking-agent transparency, and 3,000+ bugs patched by OpenAI's cyber model

Brent Dixon

personalfinancialmanagement

+12

Perplexity Launches a Personal CFO. One User Found $14K a CPA Missed.

Apr 15, 2026

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6 min read

Perplexity Launches a Personal CFO. One User Found $14K a CPA Missed.

Agentic finance arrived at both ends of the stack this week: Perplexity and OpenAI on the consumer side, Lloyds and Nymbus on the infrastructure side.

Brent Dixon

credit unions

The internet: Now with 7,851% more agents.

Mar 31, 2026

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4 min read

The internet: Now with 7,851% more agents.

Plus: Citizens is spending $300M to have AI answer half its calls.

Brent Dixon

credit unions

Mar 17, 2026

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3 min read

59 Hours Before Anyone Noticed

Plus: Fuse is paying 50 credit unions to ditch their legacy loan systems.

Brent Dixon

credit unions

Mastercard and Google Open-Sourced How AI Agents Pay

Mar 10, 2026

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2 min read

Mastercard and Google Open-Sourced How AI Agents Pay

Stripe and Fiserv are building on the same rails.

Brent Dixon

infrastructure

Who’s choosing your AI models?

The 80-agent chain behind one loan

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

750+ community FIs are getting an AI agent marketplace

The ransomware attack that ran itself.

The U.S. gated its newest AI models. A Chinese lab gave one away.

Treat your AI agent like an inside threat

An AI is negotiating repayment plans over the phone.

What did PenFed get from AI that Uber didn't? Results.

A 3-minute mortgage. How?

When the agent fails, who's liable?

The model is not the product.

Four Takeaways from Anthropic's Financial Services Briefing

Stripe rewired the credit card.

This is the doomsday issue (don't panic)

An Account for Every Agent

Perplexity Launches a Personal CFO. One User Found $14K a CPA Missed.

The internet: Now with 7,851% more agents.

59 Hours Before Anyone Noticed

Mastercard and Google Open-Sourced How AI Agents Pay

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