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July 17th, 2026

Your banking app is getting conversational! How Visa is powering this AI Financial Assistant. Plus, air quality with Airthings

  1. Your banking app is getting conversational! How Visa is powering this AI Financial Assistant. Plus, air quality with Airthings Radio America 39:08
  • If you’ve opened your banking app lately, you may have noticed an option to interact with a secure AI financial assistant, allowing you to manage your Money in a conversational manner. Visa is powering this, and so I caught up with Michele Herron, Senior Vice President and Head of North America Value Added Services at Visa.
  • Especially if you’re in the northeast no doubt you’ve been experiencing poor air quality because of wildfire smoke drifting down from Canada. We chat with Airthings about the importance of indoor air quality. We’re joined by Annabel Robertson, Brand Manager at Airthings.
  • Love home Entertainment? If you’re itching to upgrade your gear, you should check out SVS. On Tech It Out, we’ve got Nick Brown, Vice President of Marketing at the company, to talk about great audio.
  • Thank you to Visa, Norton, and SanDisk for your incredible support. Get a huge discount on Norton anti-malware at norton.com/techitout

For the past 30 years (gulp), Marc Saltzman has been a prolific tech expert with one simple goal: to break down geek speak into street speak. Marc is a freelance journalist for more than 25 publications (including USA TODAY, Costco Connection, Reader's Digest, AARP, Yahoo. AOL, Postmedia and Reviewed.com); a 17-time author (including Apple Watch For Dummies); radio/podcast and television host; keynote speaker; and content creator for social media platforms. Marc's weekly podcast and syndicated radio show is called Tech It Out. Marc specializes in consumer electronics, smart home innovations, portable and wearable devices, interactive entertainment, automotive technology, and future trends.