As Americans lose more money to scams every year, the nation's largest bank has made a major investment in anti-fraud efforts.

The two banks are among the large firms that are pouring $4 billion into DeployCo, a large-scale enterprise artificial intelligence venture born out of OpenAI's acquisition of AI consultant Tomoro. Payment technology experts say the deal gives the banks improved access to development expertise as new forms of AI penetrate all aspects of banking.

First Interstate Bank and Boulder Dam Credit Union have begun piloting the new agents, which were built using AWS' Bedrock.

American Banker's AI Talent Shift survey of 206 banking professionals ranks AI fluency first and pure software-development skills last.

Machines are increasingly being handling back-office roles at Goldman Sachs and across Wall Street, leading to questions about potential job losses.

The company's new CEO, and long-time chief technology officer, shares his views on why some banks are stuck in old ways of determining creditworthiness, how Upstart has been modifying its underwriting models and the objections people sometimes have to AI-based lending.

Plans were moving along smoothly for a new data center in Franklin County, Missouri — until residents found out about it. Now the project is facing a fierce public backlash, and a local community bank is caught in the crossfire.

Three senior officials say attackers will eventually breach bank defenses, and supervisors should plan for it — while U.S. regulators stay nearly silent.

Bankers and tech executives at SAS' annual conference said agentic AI is still in the "terrible twos" stage and requires human supervision.

The revelation that Mythos, the latest version of Anthropic's Claude large language model, can unearth unknown vulnerabilities in computer systems and websites is a crisis moment, especially for community banks.

The lenders' examples of using generative artificial intelligence were more practical than transformational, but in any case data challenges represent a common problem.

Citi payments exec Driss Temsamani said there's more work needed to bridge gaps to enable artificial intelligence to work broadly for payments and finance.

On Thursday, Citi will hold its first investor day in four years. The megabank, which has undergone substantial change under CEO Jane Fraser, is expected to share its strategy for driving higher profitability, deploying AI and ramping up shareholder returns.

In addition to 10 new AI agents for financial services, the company announced partnerships with software and data providers FIS, Microsoft, Verisk, Third Bridge, Fiscal AI, D&B, Experian, GLG, Guidepoint and IBISWorld.

CEO Brian Armstrong said the company will flatten its org chart to five management layers and concentrate hiring around "AI-native" pods.

Dimon spoke Tuesday at an Anthropic event alongside Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. 

The Canadian bank is using machine learning to analyze customers' payments and provide recommendations to salespeople.

CEO Robin Vince defended the custody bank's use of artificial intelligence Monday, saying that the deployment of AI allows firms to increase their investment capacity.