AI

Linas's Newsletter published the most posts on AI in fintech this week, with a heavy focus on agentic commerce and payments. It covered PayPal's rejection of a Stripe bid at $60.50 and Stripe's subsequent trading at $53, alongside coverage of Grok Bot and its positioning of SpaceXAI as an agentic payments player, with Stripe Link described as a winner in that dynamic. The newsletter also addressed Anthropic's Claude Commerce Agents, framing them as a challenge to ChatGPT and Gemini, and separately as Anthropic's merchant-side bet on agentic commerce. Additional posts covered Revolut AIR's launch across Europe, comparing it to another EU neobank's AI numbers, and a guide describing Grok Bot as an AI agent OS.

Fintech Wrap Up published two posts on AI-related banking software topics. One was a deep dive on when financial institutions should build their own transaction foundation models, and the other featured commentary from Finastra CEO Chris Walters on why AI won't replace banking software yet.

Fintech Futures covered two acquisition and personnel items tagged AI: Apex Group's appointment of Nick Tomadakis as its new CPO, and Eftsure's acquisition of Relish, an AI-powered data validation fintech.

American Banker Fintech published two posts touching on AI's role in banking behavior and discourse. One covered findings from 12,000 AI-tracked meetings suggesting advisors are not as good at listening as they believe, and the other covered five dystopian AI futures that bankers discussed at Jackson Hole.