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Ass Auction is an ad network where brands bid for logo placement on a pair of boxers, with ranking determined by total spend. The top 22 bidders have their logos worn, and the platform includes features like live click counts and email notifications.

Shopify now integrates with Stripe Projects, allowing developers to create stores via command line and use Stripe for unified setup and billing in app stacks.

Stripe CEO expressed surprise at the minimal media coverage of a cybersecurity attack on OpenAI and Hugging Face, labeling it as one of the most important events of 2026.

Grok Bot introduces a feature that allows users to make online purchases via Stripe, automating shopping tasks through an AI bot.

Stripe has reportedly abandoned its plans to acquire PayPal in a deal valued at $50 billion, marking a significant shift in the fintech industry's competitive landscape.

Stripe has acquired Clerky, a leading online legal service for startups, to enhance its support for the startup ecosystem and build new products for founders and attorneys.

A founder advises not to be surprised by failed payments in B2C web apps, citing Stripe's recent fraud prevention of $300M as an example of the scale of the issue.

A Stripe experiment compared Claude Fable 5 and Codex 5.6 Sol in designing brand flows for emails, with Fable being preferred for its larger, more aligned design.

Stripe's Link CLI is a developer tool that enables AI agents to securely obtain one-time-use payment credentials from Link wallets for agentic payments without storing real card details.

Stripe is acquiring OpenRouter, a platform providing a unified interface for AI model routing, highlighting the rapid growth and increasing importance of model routing in the AI industry.

The leaked internal letter from Stripe to investors details the acquisition of OpenRouter.

A company questioned for having no moat was acquired by Stripe about three years after its establishment, with the acquisition price undisclosed, but it could be one of the fastest acquisitions of a similar scale. The article explores the company's success.

Stripe agrees to acquire OpenRouter, with the transaction price slightly over $8 billion, marking the merger of the payment network and intelligence network in the AI economy.

Stripe's acquisition of OpenRouter, an AI-related company, was revealed in a leaked investor letter, with the post humorously marking the beginning of the singularity on January 1, 2026.

Stripe is acquiring OpenRouter for $7.5 billion to enhance its AI model routing capabilities, with founders humorously referencing the 'singularity' in investor letters.

Stripe announces that the AI singularity has commenced, highlighting major progress in artificial intelligence.

OpenRouter, a developer tool for AI model inference, is joining Stripe in an acquisition highlighted as a significant move in the tech industry, emphasizing the growing importance of token flows in business operations.

Gergely Orosz highlights Stripe's integration of Grok Bot for automating customer support emails through API-driven agentic operations like refunds, praising Stripe's early implementation of such flows.

The article discusses the rise in token resale and free-trial abuse in AI signups, with Stripe data showing a 6.2x increase, and introduces a tool featuring an API and local analysis scripts to detect and prevent abuse by tuning decisions based on outcomes.

Stripe is experiencing a Jevons paradox where AI enables engineers to build software faster, but the backlog of valuable software continues to grow. Will Gaybrick discusses how AI is changing Stripe's product development process.