- Banks crack down on AI agents’ account access
- Rowan’s Corner: Safeguard yourself from AI hacks
- Put your open Chrome tabs to work
- Microsoft’s AI out-diagnoses doctors on hard cases
Banks crack down on AI agents’ account access
Image source: Images 2.5 / The RundownThe Rundown: Top U.S. banks, including JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley, are restricting third-party AI agents after finding them operating inside customer accounts, with some acting beyond instructions, Axios reported.The details: - The banks caught agents logging in with customers’ own credentials, against their rules, with some calling support lines or taking actions users never requested.
- Executives called the situation “horrifying,” fearing agents might hallucinate and hit users’ finances if they’re granted authority to make purchases or move funds.
- While most cases involved user-authorized agents, not a rogue hack, one bank executive did tell Axios that they’re struggling to tell the two apart.
- In response, Morgan Stanley is blocking third-party agents, and JPMorgan, BofA, and Citi are restricting them, with most banks moving toward read-only access.
7 AI themes shaping the future
The Rundown: From strategy and operations to talent, technology, investment, and governance, understanding these seven AI themes helps leaders align across functions to make smarter decisions.In this webinar, you’ll learn:- 7 AI themes Gartner believes will have the greatest impact over the next 12 months
- How these themes shape risk, opportunities, and priorities
- Key actions to respond to these shifts
Safeguard yourself from AI hacks
Rowan: If you’re reading this newsletter, you’re probably the most AI-literate person your family knows. That comes with a responsibility that’s worth talking about this week.Over the past few days, we’ve seen a massive spike in malicious AI attacks, and it’s likely going to get worse (and weirder) as the internet figures out how to secure things properly. Instead of panicking, take extra precautions now.Here’s my protection list (forward it to your family, too):- Set a family code word that any caller must say before you believe an emergency, and share it in person, never over text.
- Hang up and call back on the number you already have saved for any urgent money request, because AI can now clone anyone’s voice from seconds of audio.
- Set up 2FA on your logins, preferably with an authenticator app rather than SMS.
- Use a good password manager (like 1Password) with zero duplicated passwords, so one leaked login can’t unlock your whole life.
- Update everything today (browsers, phones, laptops, desktop apps), since this week’s certificate compromise made unpatched software the open door.
- Confirm any payment request on a second channel, different from the one it arrived on.
Put your open Chrome tabs to work
The Rundown: In this guide, you’ll use ChatGPT’s updated Chrome extension to compare open pages, check the facts, and group the tabs you need. Start in Chat to read, then use Work for a browser action you approve.Step-by-step:- Install the official ChatGPT extension from OpenAI and open its side panel. Use a practice Chrome profile with public pages for your first run
- Open three pricing pages and tell ChatGPT which tabs to read. Give it your team size, required features, budget, and billing period
- Check the comparison against the pages. Confirm the full team cost and leave missing details unverified rather than guessing
- Switch to Work where available and ask it to group only those three tabs. Review the list first, then check the actual group in Chrome
- Ask for a short recommendation with source links and one question to resolve. Keep trials, purchases, and messages outside the task
Your meetings, slides included
The Rundown: Granola is the AI notepad for people with back-to-back meetings. With Snapshots, you can save what’s shared on screen in a call to your notes. Later, ask about the meeting and the slide comes up with the answer.Granola now lets you:- Save slides, dashboards, and docs from calls
- Keep slides with your meeting notes
- Find the slide when you need it
Microsoft’s AI out-diagnoses doctors on hard cases
Image source: Microsoft AIThe Rundown: Microsoft just published initial results from its MAI-DxO AI diagnostic system, revealing that it beats physicians on both complex medical cases and everyday ER visits while ordering fewer, cheaper tests at the same time.The details: - MAI-DxO works like a virtual panel of doctors, with AI agents proposing diagnoses, ordering tests, and challenging each other as new results come in.
- On 304 complex ‘New England Journal of Medicine’ cases, it more than doubled physicians’ accuracy with reference tools; on typical ER cases, it hit 80% vs. 47%.
- One setup reached 81% accuracy on the NEJM cases at less than half the cost of comparable systems, with the gains holding even with newer models like GPT-5.5.
- Microsoft will test the system in real clinical settings at Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston, measuring how its patient diagnoses fare against clinicians’ assessments.
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Everything else in AI todayAI lab DeepSeek reportedly raised $15B in one of China’s biggest rounds, just two days after the U.S. ordered federal agencies to remove its AI over security concerns.AI infra company Baseten released two free open-source decision models, mammoth-1 and elephant-1, with mammoth ranking #1 on the Jev Decision Index.OpenAI is nearing a funding round of up to $30B at a $1.25T valuation, led by UAE investors, CNBC reported, citing people familiar with the deal.Ex-OpenAI executive Kevin Weil’s Warp Sciences raised $215M Series A to build AI- and robotics-powered labs to help drugmakers develop medicines faster in the U.S.METR found that OpenAI’s monitoring only triggered when agents returned control to users (an issue now patched), creating a coverage gap that left 10% of internal Codex traffic unmonitored from May to July.
Highlights: News, Guides & Events- Read our last AI newsletter: AI finds a security hole in 70% of the web
- Read our last Tech newsletter: What AI sees in your selfie
- Read our last Robotics newsletter: A robot butler with Pixar ambitions
- Today’s AI tool guide: Put your open Chrome tabs to work
- RSVP to next workshop on Oct. 28: Why deep research got worse, how to get it back
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