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Exclusive: Early AI darling LangChain is now a unicorn with a fresh $125 million in funding | Fortune

Alex Jimenez @alexisrjimenez.bsky.social · 56m

Early #AI darling LangChain is now a unicorn with a fresh $125 million in funding

The startup created an eponymous open-source framework for connecting AI apps to real-time data

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#VC #Investing #AgenticAI

With new funding led by IVP and a roster of enterprise customers, LangChain wants to power the coming wave of AI agents—and investors are betting it could be the next big infrastructure giant.

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Alex Jimenez @alexisrjimenez.bsky.social · 1h

Huntington dials up its forecast after strong third quarter

Huntington reported year-over-year declines in net charge-offs, as well as in nonperforming and criticized assets.

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#FinTech #FinServ #Banking

Huntington dials up its forecast after strong third quarter

Strong loan and deposit growth led to a double-digit increase in revenues and an even bigger jump in profits at the Columbus, Ohio-based regional bank.

Hackers Say They Have Personal Data of Thousands of NSA and Other Government Officials

Alex Jimenez @alexisrjimenez.bsky.social · 1h

Hackers Say They Have Personal Data of Thousands of NSA and Other Government Officials

Not surprising given the Trump Administration lack of due diligence on anything

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#CyberSecurity #Kakistocracy

The same hackers who doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, and FBI officials now say they have the personal data of tens of thousands of officials from the NSA, Air Force, Defense Intelligence Agency, and many…

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Alex Jimenez @alexisrjimenez.bsky.social · 1h

What is #AI poisoning? A computer scientist explains

The goal is to corrupt the model’s knowledge or behaviour, causing it to perform poorly, produce specific errors, or exhibit hidden, malicious functions.

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What is AI poisoning? A computer scientist explains

Despite the hype surrounding AI, the technology is far more fragile than it might appear.

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Alex Jimenez @alexisrjimenez.bsky.social · 2h

Fifth Third, Truist flag nonbank lending

As Zions, Western Alliance and other banks revealed exposures to nonbank lenders, one analyst noted that concern around that sector is the “topic du jour.”

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Fifth Third, Truist flag nonbank lending

As Zions, Western Alliance and other banks revealed exposures to nonbank lenders, one analyst noted that concern around that sector is the “topic du jour.”

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Alex Jimenez @alexisrjimenez.bsky.social · 2h

Amex touts card refresh; says government shutdown not an issue

The company is refreshing its high-end cards, saying the reboot has gotten off to a strong start.

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#FinTech #FinServ #Banking #Payments #PayTech

Amex touts card refresh; says government shutdown not an issue

SEO Steve Squeri told analysts its platinum card upgrade has gotten off to a strong start, and added he's not noticing signs of consumer weakness due to recent political battles.

Dive Deposits: Vought sees CFPB shuttered in ‘2-3 months’

Alex Jimenez @alexisrjimenez.bsky.social · 3h

The danger of #AI dependency

The hidden cost of outsourcing human judgment.

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#Innovation #Creativity #LLMs

Alex Jimenez @alexisrjimenez.bsky.social · 4h

Dive Deposits: Vought sees CFPB shuttered in ‘2-3 months’

The CFPB’s acting director floated the timeline in a podcast appearance Wednesday, after weeks of relative silence on the bureau’s status.

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#FinTech #FinServ #Banking #Kakistocracy

The CFPB’s acting director floated the timeline in a podcast appearance Wednesday, after weeks of relative silence on the bureau’s status.

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Alex Jimenez @alexisrjimenez.bsky.social · 4h

Consumers pick quick videos as top creator format

Most (63%) of global social media users prefer short videos from creators

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Consumers pick quick videos as top creator format

Most (63%) of global social media users prefer short videos from creators, according to a March impact.com and EMARKETER survey.

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Alex Jimenez @alexisrjimenez.bsky.social · 5h

JPMorgan Payments rides merchant services, B2B to record

JPMorgan Payments logged record revenues of $4.9 billion in the third quarter, a 14% year-over-year increase. Excluding the impact of equity investments, #Payments revenue rose 6%.

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JPMorgan Payments rides merchant services, B2B to record

The payments division of the country's largest bank posted $4.9 billion in revenue in the third quarter as transaction volumes in merchant services outpaced volume in 2024.

A.I. does not know Napoleon

Alex Jimenez @alexisrjimenez.bsky.social · 5h

“#AI Does Not Know Napoleon”: the title says it all. Even models trained on massive corpora still lack real understanding.

This piece jolts us out of the fantasy that #LLMs are oracles. They’re statistical machines, not scholars.

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#Technology

A case study in A.I. literacy

Blowback grows to deposit insurance reform, despite changes

Alex Jimenez @alexisrjimenez.bsky.social · 23h

Blowback grows to deposit insurance reform, despite changes

Senators reduced proposed business account insurance limit from $20 million to $10 million, exempting banks under $10 billion of assets from costs.

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#FinTech #FinServ #Banking

Community banks and state banking groups are seeking structural reforms rather than a simple coverage increase.

Airwallex plots bigger US presence

Alex Jimenez @alexisrjimenez.bsky.social · 1d

Airwallex plots bigger US presence

The payments platform will use its recent acquisition of U.S. startup OpenPay to build out a billing platform in the Americas.

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#FinTech #FinServ #Banking #Payments #PayTech

The payments platform will use its recent acquisition of U.S. startup OpenPay to build out a billing platform in the Americas.

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Alex Jimenez @alexisrjimenez.bsky.social · 1d

Social media traffic referrals to news sites have fallen 30% since 2022

The shift to short-form video on platforms like Instagram and Facebook has made it harder for link-based posts to break through.

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#DigitalMarketing

Social media traffic referrals to news sites have fallen 30% since 2022

The shift to short-form video on platforms has made it harder for link-based posts to break through

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US seizes $15 billion in huge bust of cybercriminal group

Alex Jimenez @alexisrjimenez.bsky.social · 1d

US seizes $15 billion in huge bust of cybercriminal group

The US and UK took coordinated action against two vast criminal networks in Southeast Asia involved in human trafficking and financial fraud.

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#FinTech #FinServ #Banking #CyberSecurity #PigButchering

Coordinated sanctions target two networks behind so-called pig butchering scams, human trafficking and money laundering for North Korean cybercrime groups.

You're reading more AI-generated content than you think

Alex Jimenez @alexisrjimenez.bsky.social · 1d

You're reading more #AI-generated content than you think

Over half of new published articles are AI-generated. However, the percentage of AI-generated articles is plateauing. AI-generated articles don't perform well in search.

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#DigitalMarketing

You're not imagining it. A new report highlights AI's growing takeover of the internet.

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Alex Jimenez @alexisrjimenez.bsky.social · 1d

The bill payments company Bill to cut workforce by 6%

Bill is cutting about 140 jobs as it comes under pressure from activist investors, including Starboard Value.

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#FinTech #FinServ #Banking #Payments #PayTech

Bill to cut workforce by 6%

The bill payments company is cutting about 140 jobs as it comes under pressure from activist investors, including Starboard Value.

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Alex Jimenez @alexisrjimenez.bsky.social · 1d

China accuses US of cyberattack on national time center

Any damage to related facilities could have disrupted network communications, financial systems and power supply.

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#CyberSecurity

China accuses US of cyberattack on national time center

China has accused the U.S. National Security Agency of cyberattacks on its national time center. The Ministry of State Security claims the U.S. agency exploited vulnerabilities in a foreign mobile…

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Cornerstone Capital to acquire another Texas bank

Alex Jimenez @alexisrjimenez.bsky.social · 1d

Cornerstone Capital to acquire another Texas bank

Cornerstone Capital Bancorp, a one-time independent mortgage banker that acquired a depository, has agreed to purchase another bank, Peoples Bancorp of Lubbock, Texas.

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#FinTech #FinServ #Banking

Approximately three years after the one-time non-depository bought Roscoe (Texas) State Bank, Cornerstone Capital Bancorp agreed to purchase Peoples Bancorp.

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Alex Jimenez @alexisrjimenez.bsky.social · 1d

‘Phased Out’—Google Confirms Bad News For All 3 Billion Chrome Users

Google has suddenly confirmed #Privacy initiatives “are being phased out.”

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‘Phased Out’—Google Confirms Bad News For All 3 Billion Chrome Users

Is it time to quit the world’s most popular browser as privacy nightmare comes true?

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Alex Jimenez @alexisrjimenez.bsky.social · 1d

The alleged 'sweeping betrayal of trust' that rocked Zions bank and spooked Wall Street

Behind it all is a tangled web of loans that Zions said were surreptitiously subordinated by the borrowers all while the collateral was effectively eliminated.

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#FinTech #FinServ #Banking

The alleged 'sweeping betrayal of trust' that rocked Zions bank and spooked Wall Street

Zions Bancorporation lost $1 billion of its valuation in a single day on Thursday after disclosing $60 million worth of loans it had made that were unlikely to be repaid.

Massive leak exposes how China’s ‘Great Firewall’ is being exported to other countries

Alex Jimenez @alexisrjimenez.bsky.social · 1d

Massive leak exposes how China’s ‘Great Firewall’ is being exported to other countries

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#CyberSecurity #Censorship

For years, China’s government has used what’s known as the “Great Firewall” to censor the internet inside its country and block access to select foreign websites. Now, a document leak shows that a…

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Jamie Dimon was the 'master architect' of JPMorgan's new $3 billion skyscraper, the bank's real estate head says | Fortune

Alex Jimenez @alexisrjimenez.bsky.social · 1d

The real reason for Dimon’s attitude about return to the office.

Jamie Dimon was the ‘master architect’ of JPMorgan’s new $3 billion skyscraper, the bank’s real estate head says

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#FinTech #FinServ #Banking

The CEO and other execs were intimately involved in the design process, Dimon told The Wall Street Journal.

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