{
  "id": 12912174,
  "title": "AI Agents Wake Up $1.6 Trillion in Sleepy Bank Deposits",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/ai-agents-wake-up-1-6-trillion-in-sleepy-bank-deposits",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-08T17:22:54.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PYMNTS",
    "slug": "pymnts",
    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/ai-agents-wake-up-1-6-trillion-in-sleepy-bank-deposits/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo hold about $1.6 trillion in deposits that pay no interest, the Financial Times reported. That money tends to stay put because moving it takes time. Artificial intelligence (AI) agents could remove that friction. Meta’s Muse and similar AI assistants could soon move household cash from checking accounts […] The post AI Agents Wake Up $1.6 Trillion in…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}