{ "route": "/newsletter", "title": "AI for FIs — issue archive", "description": "Weekly agentic AI updates and insights for credit unions today.", "byline_date": "2026-06-15", "last_verified": "2026-06-12", "canon_hash": "26bc6988cfa8", "token_encoding": "o200k_base", "attribution": "Brent Dixon, Dixon Strategic Labs", "sections": [ { "blocks": [ { "kind": "prose", "text": "Brent publishes AI for FIs, a weekly newsletter on AI in financial services for credit union leaders. The newsletter is the public-facing evidence that Brent uses AI tools every day. 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How?", "url": "/newsletter/3-minute-mortgage-how", "note": "Plus: BNP's open-model bet, the 3% controls gap, and a nice conversation starter." }, { "label": "2026-05-20 — When the agent fails, who's liable?", "url": "/newsletter/the-joy-of-liability", "note": "Plus: four deployments hit 70% automation, Colorado's AI deadline, and a kill switch that came too late." }, { "label": "2026-05-13 — The model is not the product.", "url": "/newsletter/the-model-is-not-the-product", "note": "Plus: AWS agentic payments, a Microsoft prompt-injection flaw, AI liability carve-outs, and a bank scramble over Mythos." }, { "label": "2026-05-08 — Four Takeaways from Anthropic's Financial Services Briefing", "url": "/newsletter/anthropic-financial-services-briefing", "note": "Customer deployments, new agent templates, a leadership question, and three lessons from CIOs" }, { "label": "2026-05-06 — Stripe rewired the credit card.", "url": "/newsletter/stripe-rewired-the-credit-card", "note": "Plus: Two payment primitives, JPMorgan's permissions playbook, and helpful agentic security guidance from the fiv..." }, { "label": "2026-04-29 — This is the doomsday issue (don't panic)", "url": "/newsletter/doomsday-dont-panic", "note": "A corner of AI safety research has been studying catastrophic AI failure modes for over a decade, and community finan..." }, { "label": "2026-04-22 — An Account for Every Agent", "url": "/newsletter/an-account-for-every-agent", "note": "Plus: Claude Design, Gradient Labs on banking-agent transparency, and 3,000+ bugs patched by OpenAI's cyber model" }, { "label": "2026-04-15 — Perplexity Launches a Personal CFO. One User Found $14K a CPA Missed.", "url": "/newsletter/personal-cfo", "note": "Agentic finance arrived at both ends of the stack this week: Perplexity and OpenAI on the consumer side, Lloyds and N..." }, { "label": "2026-04-09 — The Claude Mythos Red Team Report: What Credit Union Leaders Need to Know", "url": "/newsletter/claude-mythos-report", "note": "A special report" }, { "label": "2026-04-08 — The Org Design Question Every Credit Union Will Face This Year", "url": "/newsletter/the-org-design-question-every-credit-union-will-face-this-year", "note": "Plus: Research on AI sycophancy, agent payment rails from Coinbase and Visa, and an open model credit unions can run ..." }, { "label": "2026-03-31 — The internet: Now with 7,851% more agents.", "url": "/newsletter/the-internet-now-with-7851-more-agents", "note": "Plus: Citizens is spending $300M to have AI answer half its calls." }, { "label": "2026-03-25 — Who Authorized That Agent?!", "url": "/newsletter/who-authorized-that-agent", "note": "Plus: MSUFCU deployed an agent that finishes skip-a-pay requests without a human." }, { "label": "2026-03-17 — 59 Hours Before Anyone Noticed", "url": "/newsletter/59-hours-before-anyone-noticed", "note": "Plus: Fuse is paying 50 credit unions to ditch their legacy loan systems." }, { "label": "2026-03-10 — Mastercard and Google Open-Sourced How AI Agents Pay", "url": "/newsletter/mastercard-and-google-open-sourced-how-ai-agents-pay", "note": "Stripe and Fiserv are building on the same rails." }, { "label": "2026-02-26 — The Credit Union Movement Is Building Its Own AI Infrastructure. (The Alternative Is Renting Someone Else's.)", "url": "/newsletter/cu-ai-infrastructure", "note": "Plus: TD Bank quantified $170 million in AI agent value. Treasury just published AI risk guardrails." }, { "label": "2026-02-19 — 67% of Credit Unions Are Deploying AI. Only 16% Have a Plan.", "url": "/newsletter/deploy-agents-with-a-strategy", "note": "New research shows smaller institutions pay four times the transition cost when they rush in without a strategy." }, { "label": "2026-02-12 — Half of Financial Institutions Are Shifting Budgets to Agents", "url": "/newsletter/half-of-financial-institutions-are-shifting-budgets-to-agents", "note": "Google Cloud's survey of 556 FI leaders shows where the money is going." }, { "label": "2026-02-05 — AI Agents Are Building Their Own Social Networks", "url": "/newsletter/ai-agents-are-building-their-own-social-networks", "note": "Plus: NCUA shares AI risk guidance credit unions should bookmark today" } ] } ] } ] }