Monthly archives: September, 2025

AI in Finance and Banking, September 15, 2025

This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and as available, indicate links to alternate free versions. Five highlights from this post: Goldman Sachs bankers explore limits of AI: ‘The risk is over-reliance’.; AI Agents for Economic Research; The State of AI in Financial Services in 2025 — views from our front row seats; Managing explanations: how regulators can address AI explainability; and Artificial Writing and Automated Detection.

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Subjects: AI in Banking and Finance, Economy, Financial System

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 13, 2025

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: How much is the Facebook settlement payout per person?; New Study: How Often Do AI Assistants Hallucinate Links? (16 Million URLs Studied); It Is Happening – Don’t cross a U.S. border without a “perfect burner phone”; When typing becomes tracking; and Study reveals widespread silent keystroke interception.

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Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media, Travel

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 6, 2025

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps; Amazon to Enter the AI Agent Race in a Big Way, Internal Documents; Selling Surveillance as Convenience; Wired, Business Insider Editors Duped By Completely Bogus ‘AI’ Using ‘Journalist’ Who Made Up Towns, People That Don’t Exist; and Verizon Finally Restores Service in Most Areas After Day-Long Outage.

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Subjects: AI, Computer Security, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media
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