Posted by Alumni from Substack
May 8, 2026
Good morning & happy Thursday! Today we're diving into banking giant Citi and its AI strategy (AI Avatar Citi Sky, Arc Platform, how it stacks against AI initiatives from other major banks, and why it might be impossible to outrun FinTech competitors + bonus deep dive into Revolut's AI Model for Money & how Anthropic is building Wall Street's AI operating system inside), and why crypto's smartest VC money is now betting on AI & AI Agent Infra (what Paradigm & Haun Ventures' recent funds tell us, and how founders & investors should be thinking about this + bonus dive into Anthropic that literally just told founders what AI products to build in 2026 & how I built an AI OS to run a startup with Claude). So let's jump straight into the interesting stuff '' The news '' Banking giant Citi C 0.00%' just put an AI advisor in a blue blazer on screen for its wealthiest clients. All while the bank's Q1 2026 was its best quarter in a decade, with $24.6 billion in revenue, net income up 42%, and... learn more