Credit Unions Face Tough Tech Choice: Pay Up or Fall Behind – The Financial Brand
“Perhaps the largest challenge facing credit unions today is the financial investment that is required to meet members’ digital demands and effectively compete with big banks and other financial institutions.
‘It isn’t cheap, but it’s a cost of doing business, and tough resource allocation discussions need to take place,’ said Shane London, President and CEO of Deseret First Credit Union in West Valley City, Utah.”
Frontiers of AI and Computing: A Conversation With Yann LeCun and Bill Dally | NVIDIA GTC 2025
“As artificial intelligence continues to reshape the world, the intersection of deep learning and high performance computing becomes increasingly crucial. This talk brings together Yann LeCun, a pioneer in deep learning and the chief AI scientist at Meta, and Bill Dally, a leading computer architect and chief scientist at NVIDIA, to explore the future of AI models, hardware accelerators, and the evolving computational landscape.”
Google’s ‘Big Sleep’ Just Became the First-Ever AI to Prevent a Cyberattack
“‘Through the combination of threat intelligence and Big Sleep, Google was able to actually predict that a vulnerability was imminently going to be used and we were able to cut it off beforehand,’ said Google. ‘We believe this is the first time an AI agent has been used to directly foil efforts to exploit a vulnerability in the wild.’ Google was light on the finer details of how, exactly, Big Sleep performed its little miracle.”
AI’s voice mimicking software is so powerful that Sam Altman is terrified of a ‘fraud crisis’ around the corner. He just warned the Fed about it
“Altman immediately brought up how powerful AI models are now capable of perfectly reproducing anyone’s voice based on just a few short audio samples and issued his warning: ‘A thing that terrifies me is apparently there are still some financial institutions that will accept the voiceprint as authentication for you to move a lot of money or do something else,’ Altman told the audience. ‘That is a crazy thing to still be doing … AI has fully defeated that.’”
NatWest Group to Accelerate Bank-wide Data and AI Transformation Through 5-year Collaboration with Accenture and AWS
“Paul Thwaite, CEO of NatWest Group, said: ‘This collaboration with Accenture and AWS is key to helping us progress the transformation of NatWest as we become a simpler, more technology and data-driven bank. Our industry—and the expectations of our customers—are changing rapidly and we are building our capabilities in order to understand and serve their needs better and faster than ever before. Equipped with high quality data, we can continue to quietly revolutionise how we serve our customers through the use of AI and other technologies in order to provide more personalised products and services as a trusted partner in the moments that matter most.’”
The Future Of Banking Apps: How AI Is Reshaping Development
“Let’s be honest: If your app isn’t good, you’re not in the game. Today, the mobile or web application is the main gateway between a financial service provider and its customers, and users’ expectations are very high. They compare your app not to the bank next door but to the best experience they’ve ever had—often from agile fintechs that put a lot of focus on smart, intuitive interfaces.”
Ally makes AI platform available companywide
- “Ally is rolling out its proprietary artificial intelligence platform, Ally.ai, to its roughly 10,000 employees, the bank said Wednesday, after testing it with a smaller group of staffers over the past 18 months.
- ‘AI will enable efficiency, AI will unleash productivity, but most importantly, it will spark creativity for our employees’ as they think about customer experience, said Sathish Muthukrishnan, Ally’s chief information, data and digital officer.”