openai

open source

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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

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

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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

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

credit unions

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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

openai

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

An AI is negotiating repayment plans over the phone.

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

The model is not the product.

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.

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