AI

Last week's fintech newsletters devoted significant attention to AI agents and their infrastructure. Bankless covered three distinct items: an experiment called IMD described as Ethereum's new AI swarm, a tool called Mercator launched by Tempo as a router for AI agents, and a piece from BlackRock mapping crypto's role in what it termed the AI economy. Fintech Weekly also touched on BlackRock's views, covering the claim that AI agents will run on stablecoins while noting that the agents themselves have not yet appeared. Connecting the Dots in FinTech covered two related developments: Huawei's push for banks to own their AI, and a partnership between Mastercard and Alchemy aimed at making AI agents payment-ready.

Banking-focused coverage also featured prominently. Fintech Futures covered a new deal between BNP Paribas and Google Cloud intended to advance agentic AI deployment. Fintech Wrap Up published a piece from Nubank CTO Eric Young titled "The AI Bank Is Already Being Built." American Banker Fintech covered multiple angles on AI in banking: a warning from state attorneys general to Congress that AI threatens the financial system, an analysis of why AI models favor fintechs over traditional banks, and a report on banks preparing for rogue AI agent swarms.

Other newsletters addressed AI tools and consumer-facing applications. Linas's Newsletter covered two guides: one on using Claude Code Projects as a "Chief of Staff" tool, and another explaining Jev AI and TypeSafe's System One Model. Payments Wrap Up covered a trial by Revolut of "Pay with Smile," a facial-recognition payment feature.

Across the newsletters, coverage spanned AI agent infrastructure, banking risk and regulatory concerns, corporate partnerships involving AI deployment, and practical guides to AI tools, reflecting a broad range of subjects tagged under AI last week.