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  • Pivot Finance AI Briefing — May 9, 2026

    Pivot Finance AI Briefing — May 9, 2026
    May 13 2026
    Hosts: Marcus Bell & Nora Chen In this episode: • Today we're covering the IMF's new systemic risk warning on AI cyberattacks, Rocket Companies' AI-driven earnings beat, and a breakthrough in financia... • Starting with the big one—the IMF just elevated AI-powered cyberattacks to systemic risk status, specifically calling out frontier models like Claude ... • Yeah, and what's striking is they're not talking about traditional hacks anymore. The IMF's concern is that these models could autonomously exploit op... • The specifics are chilling—they're describing scenarios where an AI could trigger coordinated withdrawals across multiple institutions by exploiting a... • What worries me is the timeline. If you're a CFO or risk officer, you're probably still building defenses against last year's threats while these agen... Subscribe to the newsletter at pivotnews.ai for the full written briefing.
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    5 mins
  • Pivot Finance AI Briefing — May 10, 2026

    Pivot Finance AI Briefing — May 10, 2026
    May 13 2026
    Hosts: Marcus Bell & Nora Chen In this episode: • Welcome to Pivot Finance for Sunday, May 10th, 2026. I'm Marcus Bell. • And I'm Nora Chen. This morning: Block leans hard into AI-driven lending, Rocket posts its best quarter in four years, and a new research framework ta... • Let's start with Block. Their Q1 was the first earnings print after the restructuring Jack Dorsey announced earlier this year, and the message to oper... • What stood out was the framing. Dorsey is explicitly tying the reorg to faster model deployment — underwriting, fraud, collections — across both consu... • For finance leaders, that's the headline. Embedded lending is no longer an experiment at Block — it's the growth story. The AI piece isn't generative ... Subscribe to the newsletter at pivotnews.ai for the full written briefing.
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    6 mins
  • Pivot Finance AI Briefing — May 13, 2026

    Pivot Finance AI Briefing — May 13, 2026
    May 13 2026
    Hosts: Marcus Bell & Nora Chen In this episode: • Welcome to Pivot Finance for Wednesday, May 13th, 2026. I'm Marcus Bell. • And I'm Nora Chen. This morning we're focused on a theme that's been quietly building for months: what happens when AI agents touch the money. We've g... • Let's start with the story lighting up finance Slack channels. A Reddit confession went viral over the weekend from someone claiming they gave an AI a... • And before anyone dismisses this as one anonymous post, it's not isolated. Similar patterns are showing up in audit committee discussions. Agentic pro... • That distinction matters because your audit trail collapses the moment an agent acts under a human identity. SOX-relevant entities should be especiall... Subscribe to the newsletter at pivotnews.ai for the full written briefing.
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    6 mins
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