Claude can now see your bank account
Issue #075 · 4 min read
Claude can now see your bank account
Anthropic plugs into Plaid, OpenAI ships a cybersecurity model, and GitHub finally tells you who's ignoring Copilot's reviews
The big story
Claude can now plug directly into your bank account.
Anthropic added a Personal Finance tool that connects through Plaid, so you can ask Claude questions about your spending and it can see your actual transactions to answer them — that's The Verge.
TechCrunch's write-up fills in the mechanics: you link bank and card accounts through Plaid, and Claude can then analyze the spending across them — here.
This is the same week OpenAI put out GPT‑6 Cyber, a model built specifically to find exploitable holes and develop fixes, trained to stay "within authorized scope" — OpenAI's announcement.
Put those two next to each other and the shape of the year becomes obvious.
Chat assistants are being wired into the accounts and systems that used to require a human with a login and a reason to be there.
TechCrunch's second piece on the OpenAI model asks the question plainly: a cybersecurity model is good news, but is it enough, given how fast everyone else is also racing to wire agents into sensitive systems — worth a read.
Palo Alto Networks apparently agrees there's a gap here. It's reportedly in talks to buy Clutch, a startup that secures AI agents, for $500 million — a company that was valued at $85 million not long ago, according to a source cited by TechCrunch.
That's a six-fold jump in valuation for a company whose whole job is locking down the thing OpenAI and Anthropic are busy unlocking.
If you're a PM shipping anything that connects an agent to a user's financial or operational data, the market is telling you something: the feature is the easy part, and the security review is where the real work is now.
What shipped
GitHub's Copilot usage API can now tell you who's ignoring the tool entirely. New fields flag which users are missing client telemetry or running IDE versions below the minimum needed for Copilot's usage metrics to even register — changelog. Paired with a second update that adds code review details and an "addressed rate" showing how much of Copilot's review feedback actually gets acted on — changelog — this is the first real way to separate "we bought Copilot seats" from "engineers are using Copilot." If you own the Copilot rollout at your company, pull this data before your next renewal conversation.
Google shipped Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, and it's noticeably cheaper. The new model does native 15-second video generation and editing with better consistency, at 30% lower pricing than before — Google's post. It's already live on Vercel's AI Gateway if you want to try it without a separate integration — changelog. Worth testing if you've been holding off on video generation because of cost; a 30% price cut on a feature you'd already scoped and shelved is the kind of thing that quietly changes a build decision.
Vercel Schedules moved from idea to public beta. It lets you run jobs on a schedule inside the same platform you're already deploying on — changelog, with the fuller explanation in the launch post. Minor as a headline, but if you've been bolting on a separate cron service just to send a daily digest or run a nightly cleanup, this removes a vendor from your stack.
What I'd actually do this week
- If your product touches financial or account data and you're even considering an agent integration, read the Clutch acquisition story and ask your security team what your equivalent of "agent security review" looks like today. The price tag on that deal is a signal, not a sideshow.
- Pull the new GitHub Copilot usage fields if you're the one reporting on the Copilot rollout. "Addressed rate" is the number your next budget conversation will actually turn on.
- If you've shelved a video-generation feature on cost, re-run the math against Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash's new pricing before you write it off for the quarter.
Tell me what you're seeing on your end — reply any time.