payments

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

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

agentic commerce

650 institutions let AI triage financial-crime. Should they?

Jun 17, 2026

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5 min read

650 institutions let AI triage financial-crime. Should they?

Plus: an AI agent bought the concert tickets, the government switched off Anthropic's three-day-old model, and regulators started asking about AI in exams.

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

+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 Org Design Question Every Credit Union Will Face This Year

Apr 8, 2026

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5 min read

The Org Design Question Every Credit Union Will Face This Year

Plus: Research on AI sycophancy, agent payment rails from Coinbase and Visa, and an open model credit unions can run on-site.

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

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

payments

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

The ransomware attack that ran itself.

Treat your AI agent like an inside threat

650 institutions let AI triage financial-crime. Should they?

The model is not the product.

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 Org Design Question Every Credit Union Will Face This Year

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

Mastercard and Google Open-Sourced How AI Agents Pay

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