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credit unions

+8

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
Brent Dixon

model risk

+8

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
Brent Dixon

agentic commerce

+9

The ransomware attack that ran itself.

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
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
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
Brent Dixon

agentic commerce

+7

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
Brent Dixon

credit unions

+9

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
Brent Dixon

open source

+10

A 3-minute mortgage. How?

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
Brent Dixon

infrastructure

+5

When the agent fails, who's liable?

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
Brent Dixon

agentic commerce

+12

The model is not the product.

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
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
Brent Dixon

agentic commerce

+10

Stripe rewired the credit card.

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
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
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
Brent Dixon

credit unions

+3

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
Brent Dixon

credit unions

+8

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
Brent Dixon

credit unions

+6

Who Authorized That Agent?!

Mar 24, 2026

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5 min read

Who Authorized That Agent?!

Plus: MSUFCU deployed an agent that finishes skip-a-pay requests without a human.

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

credit unions

+6

59 Hours Before Anyone Noticed

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
Brent Dixon

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