Two major M&A deals this week show how deeply artificial intelligence (AI) and payments are becoming intertwined. Stripe has agreed to buy OpenRouter, an innovative tech marketplace that lets people access hundreds of AI models through one gateway, for more than $7 billion. Meanwhile, Anthropic is in early talks to acquire Decart, an Israeli startup […]
PayPal fintech company posted second-quarter adjusted earnings of $1.38 per share, beating the $1.28 that analysts expected. Revenue rose 5% year over year to $8.68 billion, also ahead of forecasts. PayPal then raised its full-year profit guidance to $5.38 per share, up from its prior outlook of flat-to-declining earnings. These results underpin the company’s earlier […]
Increase, the banking infrastructure and API provider used by Gusto, Ramp and Stripe, has launched Increase Bank, an FDIC-member banking institution designed to provide technology companies with programmable banking infrastructure.
Autonomous checkout has moved from demo to disputed business model within a single year. Amazon’s Rufus-powered “Buy for Me” now completes purchases on external retailer sites on a shopper’s behalf. OpenAI tried a native 4% checkout fee inside ChatGPT and pulled it after six months. A new startup, Natural, has raised $30 million to build […]
A coalition of more than 140 companies from different areas of financial services has agreed to back Open USD (OUSD), a new stablecoin announced on June 30, 2026, and governed by an independent entity called Open Standard. The joint initiative brings together banks, payments networks, crypto platforms and technology firms with the stated goal of […]
Choosing a payment solution for a SaaS company is quite different than the same process for, let’s say, an e-commerce retailer. What retailer typically needs to do is to accept a single payment at checkout. A SaaS business, meanwhile, must charge customers on a recurring schedule. It immediately complicates things with handling upgrades and downgrades […]
Amazon Web Services announced a preview version of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments on May 7. The feature allows AI agents built on the AgentCore platform to make payments for APIs, web content, MCP servers and other digital services during task execution.
Visa has launched a validator node on the Tempo blockchain, joining Stripe and Zodia Custody, a digital asset firm backed by Standard Chartered, as the first external participants helping operate the network.
AI agents may perform various tasks for a business or individual, but they may not complete half of them without the ability to actually make payments. Nevermined aims to solve that deficiency with their new agent card delegation feature based on secure technologies developed by Visa, Coinbase’s x402, and VGS.
As AI continues to reshape financial infrastructure, Stripe-backed Tempo is introducing a new payments protocol designed to enable intelligent, programmable transactions at scale.
Stripe is moving machine-to-machine commerce from concept to reality. The company unveiled x402 payments on the Base blockchain, enabling autonomous AI agents to execute transactions using Circle’s USDC without human intervention.
Stripe is arranging a tender offer that would give the payments company a valuation of at least $140 billion, and its leadership says it is not currently planning an IPO amid steady private‑market growth.
As financial platforms grow more complex, fintech providers are increasingly embedding AI assistants directly into their products to help customers navigate features, automate routine tasks, and reduce reliance on manual support. Airwallex is the latest payments company to introduce such a tool, adding an in-app AI assistant designed primarily to simplify day-to-day platform use.
The collaboration between PhotonPay and Stripe promises to usher in unified, scalable online payment infrastructure across multiple regions.
AI and payments had been going their separate ways for a while, until their convergence made the concepts of agentic commerce and automated transactions tangible. Why do we expect to hear the words AI and payments increasingly used in the same context in 2026 and how do these two fintech sectors mutually enhance each other? […]
E-commerce merchants using BigCommerce platform can now unlock globally optimized checkout, local payment options, AI-powered fraud protection and agentic commerce tools through an expanded Stripe integration.
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