# AI for FIs — issue archive

> Weekly agentic AI updates and insights for credit unions today.

By Brent Dixon, Dixon Strategic Labs · 2026-06-15 · Facts last verified 2026-06-12

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. It is the primary on-ramp for new relationships.

- **Cadence:** weekly
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- **Issues archived here:** 20

## Issues

- [2026-06-09 — An AI is negotiating repayment plans over the phone.](/newsletter/negotiating-repayment-plans) — Plus: The 3 rules for putting agents in production, and an AI maturity model from Carnegie Mellon and Accenture.
- [2026-06-04 — What did PenFed get from AI that Uber didn't? Results.](/newsletter/what-did-penfed-get-from-ai-that-uber-didn-t-results) — Plus: AI bills outrunning proof of value, a bank CEO's "human capital" apology, and a Try This to pressure-test a...
- [2026-05-28 — A 3-minute mortgage. How?](/newsletter/3-minute-mortgage-how) — Plus: BNP's open-model bet, the 3% controls gap, and a nice conversation starter.
- [2026-05-20 — When the agent fails, who's liable?](/newsletter/the-joy-of-liability) — Plus: four deployments hit 70% automation, Colorado's AI deadline, and a kill switch that came too late.
- [2026-05-13 — The model is not the product.](/newsletter/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.
- [2026-05-08 — Four Takeaways from Anthropic's Financial Services Briefing](/newsletter/anthropic-financial-services-briefing) — Customer deployments, new agent templates, a leadership question, and three lessons from CIOs
- [2026-05-06 — Stripe rewired the credit card.](/newsletter/stripe-rewired-the-credit-card) — Plus: Two payment primitives, JPMorgan's permissions playbook, and helpful agentic security guidance from the fiv...
- [2026-04-29 — This is the doomsday issue (don't panic)](/newsletter/doomsday-dont-panic) — A corner of AI safety research has been studying catastrophic AI failure modes for over a decade, and community finan...
- [2026-04-22 — An Account for Every Agent](/newsletter/an-account-for-every-agent) — Plus: Claude Design, Gradient Labs on banking-agent transparency, and 3,000+ bugs patched by OpenAI's cyber model
- [2026-04-15 — Perplexity Launches a Personal CFO. One User Found $14K a CPA Missed.](/newsletter/personal-cfo) — Agentic finance arrived at both ends of the stack this week: Perplexity and OpenAI on the consumer side, Lloyds and N...
- [2026-04-09 — The Claude Mythos Red Team Report: What Credit Union Leaders Need to Know](/newsletter/claude-mythos-report) — A special report
- [2026-04-08 — The Org Design Question Every Credit Union Will Face This Year](/newsletter/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 ...
- [2026-03-31 — The internet: Now with 7,851% more agents.](/newsletter/the-internet-now-with-7851-more-agents) — Plus: Citizens is spending $300M to have AI answer half its calls.
- [2026-03-25 — Who Authorized That Agent?!](/newsletter/who-authorized-that-agent) — Plus: MSUFCU deployed an agent that finishes skip-a-pay requests without a human.
- [2026-03-17 — 59 Hours Before Anyone Noticed](/newsletter/59-hours-before-anyone-noticed) — Plus: Fuse is paying 50 credit unions to ditch their legacy loan systems.
- [2026-03-10 — Mastercard and Google Open-Sourced How AI Agents Pay](/newsletter/mastercard-and-google-open-sourced-how-ai-agents-pay) — Stripe and Fiserv are building on the same rails.
- [2026-02-26 — The Credit Union Movement Is Building Its Own AI Infrastructure. (The Alternative Is Renting Someone Else's.)](/newsletter/cu-ai-infrastructure) — Plus: TD Bank quantified $170 million in AI agent value. Treasury just published AI risk guardrails.
- [2026-02-19 — 67% of Credit Unions Are Deploying AI. Only 16% Have a Plan.](/newsletter/deploy-agents-with-a-strategy) — New research shows smaller institutions pay four times the transition cost when they rush in without a strategy.
- [2026-02-12 — Half of Financial Institutions Are Shifting Budgets to Agents](/newsletter/half-of-financial-institutions-are-shifting-budgets-to-agents) — Google Cloud's survey of 556 FI leaders shows where the money is going.
- [2026-02-05 — AI Agents Are Building Their Own Social Networks](/newsletter/ai-agents-are-building-their-own-social-networks) — Plus: NCUA shares AI risk guidance credit unions should bookmark today

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