A look at the clash between Coinbase and Wall Street over the Clarity Act and whether crypto exchanges can offer stablecoin “rewards”
Coinbase chief Brian Armstrong is clashing with Jamie Dimon and other bank stewards over the future of finance
Cursor recently experimented with using hundreds of AI agents to build a web browser; they ran for close to a week, writing 1M+ lines of code across 1,000 files
Scaling long-running autonomous coding. Wilson Lin at Cursor has been doing some experiments to see how far you can push a large fleet of “autonomous” coding agents:
OpenAI and Instacart launch a grocery shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, letting customers brainstorm meal ideas and check out via OpenAI Instant Checkout
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch :
Stripe agrees to acquire Metronome, which offers APIs to help SaaS companies charge customers based on usage and has raised $128M in total funding
compounded by the rise of AI. That shift accelerated even more than I expected. Metronome became the monetization infrastructure Jeff Weinstein / @jeff_weinstein : Welcome @getmetr...
Stripe agrees to acquire Metronome, which offers APIs to help SaaS companies charge customers based on usage and has raised $128M in total funding
compounded by the rise of AI. That shift accelerated even more than I expected. Metronome became the monetization infrastructure Jeff Weinstein / @jeff_weinstein : Welcome @getmetr...
Google unveils Gemini 3, its “most intelligent” and “factually accurate” model yet, with improvements across coding and reasoning, and offering less “flattery”
The flagship Gemini 3 Pro model is coming to the Gemini app and Search, with improvements across coding, reasoning, and less ‘flattery.’
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt win the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work on how tech progress and sustained economic growth are related
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the prize for showing how “society must keep an eye on the factors that generate …
Stripe launches Open Issuance, a Bridge-powered platform that lets companies create its own stablecoins, used by crypto wallet Phantom to issue its CASH token
a new stablecoin created with stripe + bridge w/ baked in developer rewards, stripe merchant support, and new phantom $ features, launching on solana. [video] Ryan Rasmussen / @ras...
OpenAI rolls out Instant Checkout to let users make single-item purchases directly in ChatGPT, starting with US Etsy sellers, and plans to add Shopify merchants
the chatbot will start letting its 700,000,000 users shop directly from their chats Jibin Joseph / PCMag : ChatGPT Now Lets You Make Purchases Without Leaving the App Nishit Singh ...
China's podcast audience is projected to reach 150M in 2025, up from <700K five years ago, driven by grassroots hosts instinctively navigating China's red lines
most recently podcasting—to express themselves and connect with one another, because, well, this is what being human is about. www.ft.com/content/5a8b... X: Patrick Collison / @pat...
Stripe agrees to acquire Privy, which helps companies build crypto wallets into their user experiences; Privy was last valued at $230M in March 2025
Where Bridge powers stablecoin rails, Privy solves crypto's biggest UX problem: wallets. …
A look at Brian Chesky's efforts to turn Airbnb into a storefront for real-world services, after its “experiences” experiment started in 2016 was unsuccessful
CEO Brian Chesky is spending hundreds of millions to relaunch his travel company as an everything app. Fitness! Food!
Stripe plans to test a stablecoin payments product aimed at companies outside the US, the UK, and the EU, using tech from Bridge, which Stripe acquired in 2024
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison said a stablecoin tool for companies outside US, UK and EU is ready for testing. — What to know:
Stripe announces a tender offer for staff and shareholders that values it at $91.5B, down from $95B in 2021, and reports 2024 payment volume up 38% YoY to $1.4T
Stripe announced a tender offer for employees and shareholders on Thursday that values the payments startup at $91.5 billion …
Salesforce says online Black Friday sales hit $74.4B globally, up 5% YoY, and $17.5B in the US, up 7% YoY; Adobe says US online sales hit $10.8B, up 10.2% YoY
The momentum of Thanksgiving — which saw consumers spend a record $33.6 billion spent globally online on the day — looks like it continued into Black Friday, with a bang.
Stripe announces a finalized deal to buy stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge; Michael Arrington says the deal is worth $1.1B; Bridge has raised $54M
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk :
Investor letter: Josh Kushner says Thrive Capital raised a $1B early-stage fund and a $4B late-stage fund, its largest-ever pair, after backing OpenAI in 2023
The fundraising reflects optimism over artificial intelligence despite the startup sector's broader struggles
How effective altruism, branded by some as a cult obsessed with AI doomsday, influences the White House's, Congress', and think tanks' approach to AI regulation
or rather, it works on the same sort of psychological impulses that have led to millenniarian cults across recorded history 2) For EA to still play an effective and even necessary ...
How effective altruism, branded by some as a cult obsessed with AI doomsday, influences the White House's, Congress', and think tanks' approach to AI regulation
or rather, it works on the same sort of psychological impulses that have led to millenniarian cults across recorded history 2) For EA to still play an effective and even necessary ...