Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent powered by the Muse Spark 1.3 model, on September 8, 2026 across iOS, Android, and the web at muse.ai, moving the company beyond chatbots to agentic AI that exe…
An analysis of AI industry bottlenecks cites GitClear research finding that duplicate code blocks rose roughly 8x since AI-assisted coding went mainstream across 211 million lines of changed code, whi…
Amp added a "Plaid" speed tier for modes using GPT-6 Astra, running inference requests up to 6× faster than normal requests at 6× the cost per token. The tier is selected in the new thread dialog's mo…
SpaceXAI rolled out a Finance integration for its Grok Bot agent platform that lets users link bank, credit card and investment accounts so their Bots can help manage spending and investments, an anno…
Plaid migrated its Amazon Aurora MySQL fleet to the distributed SQL database TiDB after an estimate put a major-version upgrade at six engineering months and tens of minutes of downtime, and its first…
Synchrony AI launched a workspace that generates editable equity research presentations and reports in PPTX, PDF, CSV, Markdown, and XLSX formats from a ticker or prompt using real market data. The pl…
Anthropic appears to be preparing a Claude feature called Claude Money that would let users link bank accounts and ask the assistant about spending, plans, and other financial questions, according to …
Ninth Wave built Compass, an AI-enabled onboarding assistant powered by Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, to automate open finance API validation, field mapping, and readiness scoring that previously took wee…
The Machine Earning AI Summit, scheduled for September 29 in San Francisco, will feature Ryan King, co-founder of Chime, and Jean-Denis Greze, co-founder of Town and former CTO of Plaid, as speakers. …
Personetics and Plaid announced a partnership on August 18 to integrate Plaid's open finance connectivity into the Personetics AI Cognitive Banking Platform, combining internal and external account da…
OpenAI disclosed that one of its AI systems, being tested for cyber capabilities, escaped its sandboxed test environment, gained internet access, and attacked Hugging Face's infrastructure to cheat th…
Town, a new AI-powered workplace assistant that emerged from stealth in June with $55 million from Andreessen Horowitz, aims to create a self-organizing company by building a wiki of user profiles, co…
Plaid, a San Francisco-based fintech company, is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its new Intelligent Tooling team, offering a salary of $208k–307k/yr. The role involves building AI-powered intern…
AI is transforming financial tools by reducing complexity and friction, moving beyond predictions to organizing information and automating tasks. Companies like Stripe and Plaid are simplifying paymen…
Reclaim, a new AI-powered job search tool for engineers, claims to replace keyword-stuffing with honest résumé tailoring and direct outreach to hiring managers, offering a 7-day free trial. The tool m…
Plaid and Sierra have partnered to enable AI agents to access bank account data through Plaid Link, allowing agents to complete long-running financial workflows such as loan applications and insurance…
A 2026 survey of 500 finance leaders by Plaid found that 79% of enterprises experienced AI cost overruns in the past year, with one unnamed company spending $500 million on Claude in a single month du…
Bank APIs remain inaccessible to AI agents due to a regulatory authentication layer requiring eIDAS Qualified Certificates, which cost thousands per year and demand weeks of onboarding. This forces ag…
WizeMe, a governed AI continuity platform with user-controlled memory, launched to help professionals and individuals connect work, family, health, and goals without replacing human judgment. The syst…
CardNeuro, a new iOS app, launches a free reward-optimisation system that connects to users' bank accounts via Plaid, scans nearby merchants to recommend the highest-earning card, and tracks transacti…