FinTekCafe Weekly: When Bigger Stops Winning
This week: when small models beat frontier ones, the coming GPU glut, why banks build their own rails, fraud in milliseconds, and the AI coding wall.
This week: when small models beat frontier ones, the coming GPU glut, why banks build their own rails, fraud in milliseconds, and the AI coding wall.
This week: which AI agents actually ship, the coming ML salary correction, shadow AI out of control, stablecoins as bank rails, and embedded finance.
This week: the LLM bill nobody budgeted for, BNPL hits the bureaus, US open banking goes live, Postgres everywhere, and RAG vs fine-tuning.
This week: RAG architecture and costs, service mesh in 2026, ISO 20022 stack impact, plus three Pro pieces on FedNow, AI agent frameworks, and confidential computing.
This week: vector search and embeddings explained, real-time cross-border payments, edge computing in finance, plus three Pro deep-dives on knowledge graphs, treasury AI, and the Series B repricing.
This week: MCP for enterprise tools, the CIO override on AI pilots, the open-source database squeeze, stablecoins for treasury, and the neobank charter pivot.
This week: AI evals, the embedded finance stall, vector DBs and pgvector, the AI capex bubble, FedNow adoption, and why the Iceberg vs Delta vs Hudi war is over.
This week: agentic AI tiers, the bank tokenized-deposit pivot, when service mesh actually pays off, AI pricing breaking per-seat, ISO 20022, and why most IDPs fail.
This week: why most platform companies are just vendors, the true cost of AI infrastructure, DORA enforcement, data lakehouses, VC economics, and prompt engineering.
Plus: the CTO playbook that actually works, why your cloud bill is 40% too high, and a 30-day enterprise software framework.
PayPal Zettles ‘Commerce In Box’ for SMB. US Job numbers look good. JP Morgan makes more inroads into fintech through acquisition.
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