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The brief · 15 May 2026

The AI brief, 2026-05-15

The pope is writing about AI, and ChatGPT wants to read your bank statements. Two very different ways of inviting themselves into your life.

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ChatGPT Now Connects to Your Bank Accounts

OpenAI is testing a financial dashboard built directly into ChatGPT, linked to your accounts via Plaid. You can ask questions about your actual spending and get answers grounded in your real data, not generic budgeting advice.

practitioners › Limited to ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the US, connects through Plaid (supporting 12,000+ institutions), deliberately narrow rollout to iterate before wider release.

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