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1. HSBC partners with Google Cloud for multi-year AI development, aiming for over 200 use cases and significant financial returns. → Read more
2. AI model GPT-5.4, paired with Maria AI, successfully proposed an innovative method to enhance a key drug discovery reaction. → Read more
3. Adobe introduces AI agents to Creative Cloud apps like Photoshop and Premiere, simplifying complex tasks through natural language prompts. → Read more
4. ChatGPT's market share falls below 50% as users shift to rivals. Vercel introduces eve for AI agents, and Replit integrates with Claude. → Read more
Our take
Hi Dotikers!
Yesterday, we watched Elon Musk settle a 60 billion dollar bill in shares freshly printed on the Nasdaq to grab Cursor. Today, we find out who will eventually fill the coffers of this whole ecosystem: the customers. And the biggest of them are banks.
HSBC has just announced, at the Google Cloud Summit in London, a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud targeting more than two hundred AI use cases over the next two years. Two hundred, and that's not a typo. The British giant will lean on Google's Gemini models and its enterprise agent platform, with Google DeepMind's teams in the loop. Stated targets: wealth management and the fight against financial crime, two areas where the margin for error is tiny. Some individual initiatives are expected to return more than 100 million dollars each.
The detail that reveals the scale is elsewhere. HSBC isn't starting from scratch. More than six hundred AI use cases are already running across the group, just as many in-house applications run on Google Cloud, twenty thousand developers use coding assistants with a 15 percent time gain, and a decision assistant has already cut the prep on certain tasks from hours to minutes. On financial crime, the bank scans 1.2 billion transactions a month and now promises to intervene twice as fast on detected risks. In March, it even appointed its first Chief AI Officer. This is no longer an experiment, it's a reorganization.
And the strategic signal is crystal clear. The most cautious sector of the economy, the one that spent years dipping a toe into AI out of fear of the regulator, has just switched into sprint mode. HSBC had already signed with Mistral in December, it adds Google today, and is clearly not putting all its eggs in one model. The question is no longer whether AI belongs in banking, but who will build the infrastructure, the governance and the trust needed to run it without breaking everything the fastest. Yesterday, the labs were burning money. Today, we finally see where it intends to come back in. One big unknown remains: in a bank, the only thing harder to win back than money is trust.
Alexis
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