AI

Last week's fintech newsletters tagged "AI" devoted significant attention to agentic commerce and AI-driven payment tools. Linas's Newsletter published the most content on this theme, covering PayPal's stock trading at $53 after being rejected by Stripe at $60.50, Grok Bot's positioning as an agentic payments player for SpaceXAI with Stripe Link described as a winner, and Claude Commerce Agents as a challenge to ChatGPT and Gemini. The newsletter also published a dedicated piece on Anthropic's Claude Commerce Agents framed as a merchant-side bet on agentic commerce, a look at Revolut AIR's European launch compared against another EU neobank's AI numbers, and a guide describing Grok Bot as "The First Real AI Agent OS."

Fintech Wrap Up covered two distinct AI topics: a deep dive into when financial institutions should build their own transaction foundation models, and commentary from Finastra CEO Chris Walters arguing that AI won't replace banking software yet.

Fintech Futures reported on personnel and M&A news, including Apex Group's appointment of Nick Tomadakis as new CPO and Eftsure's acquisition of AI-powered data validation fintech Relish.

American Banker Fintech covered AI applications in advisory and banking contexts, including a piece on 12,000 AI-tracked meetings suggesting advisors are not as good at listening as they believe, and a report on five dystopian AI futures bankers heard about at Jackson Hole.