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ActiveCampaign Launches Google Ads Connector

ActiveCampaign announced a Google Ads connector for Active Intelligence, its AI-powered marketing engine, enabling marketers to create and manage Google Ads Performance Max campaigns directly inside ActiveCampaign using conversational prompts. The integration guides users through account setup, goal selection and ad copy creation, and can leverage Google’s gen AI asset builder (beta) or assets from ActiveCampaign’s Content Manager. The connector expands Active Intelligence’s ecosystem — which already includes Wix, Calendly and Stripe — and is available now to ActiveCampaign customers on Plus plans and above. The feature aims to let marketers stay in a single AI-driven workspace while executing campaigns across Google inventory (Search, YouTube, Gmail, Maps, Display, Discover).

Anthropic Positions Claude as Wall Street's OS

At a May 5 finance event Anthropic shifted from selling standalone chat products to offering a platform of production-grade AI agents for financial institutions. The company unveiled ten agent templates (covering tasks from pitchbook assembly to month-end close and KYC), native Excel/PowerPoint/Word integrations, and released code under an Apache 2.0 license. Anthropic has pilots or deployments with firms including Citadel, Goldman, BNY, Carlyle and AIG. Crucially, an infrastructure partnership with FIS — a processor handling roughly 12% of the global economy — could surface Claude agents to thousands of banks without direct Anthropic contracts. Combined with a $1.5B JV involving Blackstone, Goldman and Hellman & Friedman, Anthropic now pursues three distribution paths into finance, prompting market reactions such as an 8.1% drop in FactSet shares the same day.

Anthropic Unveils Ten AI Agents for Finance

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned on May 5, 2026 that the company’s Mythos model has uncovered tens of thousands of software vulnerabilities, creating a limited six- to 12-month window to patch issues before comparable AI capability spreads. Speaking at an Anthropic financial‑services event where he shared the stage with JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Amodei said most discovered vulnerabilities remain unpatched and that restricted access to Mythos is necessary to limit misuse. At the same event Anthropic unveiled a suite of 10 AI agents for banking and back‑office work, announced a unified Microsoft Office integration, and said its model Claude Opus 4.7 leads benchmarks for financial analysis. Amodei urged automotive-style safety guardrails and framed the moment as a danger that, if managed correctly, could yield long‑term benefits.