Stripe

Stripe is a global technology company that enables businesses to accept and process online payments. Founded in 2010, Stripe serves over 100,000 businesses in more than 100 countries with a suite of payment processing tools, including payment gateways, fraud prevention, and subscription management. Key executives include co-founders Patrick and John Collison, and the company has divisions in San Francisco, Seattle, Dublin, and Singapore. Competitors include PayPal, Square, and Adyen.

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Stripe co-founder John Collison. Photo by Jeenah Moon/Getty Images.

Stripe’s Stablecoin Startup Tangles With Sanctions and Scammers

By Michael Roddan and Yueqi Yang · Feb 3, 2026 6:00am PST · 1 comment

When Stripe acquired crypto startup Bridge last year, it described stablecoins as financial services “superconductors.” Thanks to Bridge, Stripe has since integrated stablecoins into an array of products, such as stablecoin cards that allow customers to spend crypto anywhere. Using stablecoins for payments turns out to be harder than it looks.... When Stripe acquired crypto startup Bridge last year, it described stablecoins as financial...

How a Big Agent Bet Reshaped AWS

By Catherine Perloff · Feb 1, 2026 11:00am PST · 1 comment

Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman has been overhauling the cloud giant’s AI product leadership to speed its development of new AI software for businesses. Among more recent moves, AWS hired a former Microsoft executive to lead a suite of enterprise search and agent-building tools, and brought back a former AWS executive who did a stint at... Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman has been overhauling the cloud giant’s AI product leadership...

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Sunday Insights

In AI Shopping Wars, Rivals Team Up to Take On Amazon

By Ann Gehan · Feb 1, 2026 8:00am PST · 1 comment

AI firms are promoting shopping as a new area of growth for chatbots, and retail giants and payments companies don’t want to be left out. That’s spawned a web of partnerships among companies that could make money off AI-fueled purchases. We’ve mapped out the alliances between 10 companies at the center of the high-profile AI shopping efforts in... AI firms are promoting shopping as a new area of growth for chatbots, and retail giants and...

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Weekend: Moltbook, Clawdbot and Their AI Hijinks—A Quick Explainer

By Abram Brown · Jan 31, 2026 7:14am PST

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Weekend: Moltbook, Clawdbot and Their AI Hijinks—A Quick Explainer

By Abram Brown · Jan 31, 2026 7:14am PST

Welcome, Weekenders! Firstly, I want to tell you about an exciting addition to The Information’s Weekend section: reporter Eli Rosenberg, an alum of The New York Times, The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle. He’ll cover tech wealth and culture—just as a slate of potential mega-IPOs from the likes of SpaceX, OpenAI and... Welcome, Weekenders! Firstly, I want to tell you about an exciting addition to The...

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Microsoft Moves to Respond to New Threats From Anthropic

By Aaron Holmes · Jan 28, 2026 6:00am PST · 2 comments

Anthropic’s launch of Cowork, an AI-powered tool that takes over a computer to handle workplace tasks involving numerous applications, from Microsoft Office apps to Slack, has reverberated through Microsoft’s ranks. In the days following the launch this month, Microsoft product leaders told colleagues that Cowork seemed like a competitor to 365... Anthropic’s launch of Cowork, an AI-powered tool that takes over a computer to handle workplace...

U.S. battery startups are finding eager manufacturing capacity in China. Photo: Lin Xin/VCG/Getty

The Electric: Idle Chinese Plants Are Inviting Business With U.S. Battery Startups

By Steve LeVine · Jan 26, 2026 4:30am PST

A free-for-all of factory expansion among China’s battery manufacturers has left more than 40% of the country’s battery plants idle. That has presented a prime opportunity for a nascent wave of Western startups to capitalize on the Chinese battery makers’ misery. A free-for-all of factory expansion among China’s battery manufacturers has left more than 40% of...

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar.

OpenAI Aims to Lure Businesses From Anthropic

By Kevin McLaughlin and Sri Muppidi · Jan 24, 2026 8:00am PST · 4 comments

Some of OpenAI’s most attention-grabbing efforts over the past year have involved products for consumers, from a social app to an AI-powered device it plans to announce later this year. Last week, though, the company’s CEO, Sam Altman, gathered Disney CEO Bob Iger and other corporate executives in San Francisco to deliver a message: OpenAI is... Some of OpenAI’s most attention-grabbing efforts over the past year have involved products for...

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OpenAI’s Chaos Energy

By Abram Brown · Jan 24, 2026 7:00am PST

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OpenAI’s Chaos Energy

By Abram Brown · Jan 24, 2026 7:00am PST

Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: How Greg and Anna Brockman became MAGA’s newest megadonors • The Takeway: When a Davos trip presents a chance to test AI’s limits • The Top 5: The moguls went to Davos—then we went shopping • Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Articles of Interest,” “I... Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: How Greg and Anna Brockman became MAGA’s...

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A Tech Mogul’s Guide to Winter Fashion, Davos-Style

By Esther Achara · Jan 24, 2026 6:01am PST · 3 comments

Tackling global dilemmas is what the World Economic Forum does best, and keen observers of the happenings at Davos, Switzerland, can definitely glean a sense of where the world might be heading. It’s also not a bad place to pick up a sense of mogul-appropriate winter wear. “Dressing for Davos isn’t easy,” admitted Victoria Hitchcock, a Silicon... Tackling global dilemmas is what the World Economic Forum does best, and keen observers of the...

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How Greg and Anna Brockman Became MAGA Megadonors

By Jemima McEvoy, Stephanie Palazzolo and Sylvia Varnham O'Regan · Jan 23, 2026 11:07am PST · 2 comments

In November, Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, and his wife, Anna, enjoyed a glitzy night out in Washington: a White House state dinner for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The Brockmans were among a broad contingent of tech elite in attendance at the fete, hosted by President Donald Trump. Soon after the event, the... In November, Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, and his wife, Anna, enjoyed a...

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar. Screenshot via World Economic Forum.

OpenAI Plans to Take a Cut of Customers’ AI-Aided Discoveries

By Amir Efrati · Jan 22, 2026 10:30am PST · 3 comments

Hi! If you’re finding value in our Applied AI newsletter, I encourage you to consider subscribing to The Information. It contains exclusive reporting on the most important stories in tech, like this story from Aaron and Wayne on Apple software chief Craig Federighi‘s cautious approach to improving the company’s AI standing. Save... Hi! If you’re finding value in our Applied AI newsletter, I encourage you to consider subscribing...

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JPMorgan Moves To Cut Off Fintech With Questionable Customers

By Michael Roddan · Jan 20, 2026 12:19pm PST

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JPMorgan Moves To Cut Off Fintech With Questionable Customers

By Michael Roddan · Jan 20, 2026 12:19pm PST

Fintech startup Checkbook began with the promise to help banks eliminate paper checks and transformed itself into an international payments company that leveraged a relationship with JPMorgan Chase to give all manner of customers access to the U.S. financial system. JPMorgan recently told Checkbook it was winding down its relationship with the... Fintech startup Checkbook began with the promise to help banks eliminate paper checks and...

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Why AI Startups' Fixation on 'Cracked' Engineers is Short-Sighted

By Rocket Drew · Jan 20, 2026 7:37am PST

Before we get to today’s column, OpenAI’s Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar pulled back the curtain this weekend on how the ChatGPT maker’s consumption of computational resources and annualized revenue have grown at approximately the same pace over time. That isn’t super surprising, given that most companies would expect their revenue to grow... Before we get to today’s column, OpenAI’s Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar pulled back the...

My Interview With Andy Jassy: OpenAI, Trump, Power and the Future of AWS

By Jessica E. Lessin · Jan 20, 2026 5:44am PST · 1 comment

AI-powered shopping has the potential to be a big boost to Amazon’s retail business, CEO Andy Jassy said on Tuesday. And while Amazon already has its own shopping chatbot, it is also looking for ways to partner with other companies to run their chatbots on its site. In an interview with The Information’s Jessica Lessin at the World Economic... AI-powered shopping has the potential to be a big boost to Amazon’s retail business, CEO Andy...

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AI Infrastructure

Why Google Is Winning the Race for Data Center Power

By Ann Davis Vaughan · Jan 19, 2026 8:00am PST · 1 comment

There’s no doubt now that the tech companies driving AI will have to help produce the new electricity needed to power it. The White House and several governors sought Friday to force them to build more plants.That’s why Google’s $4.75 billion deal in December for Intersect, a developer of renewables and data center infrastructure, is so... There’s no doubt now that the tech companies driving AI will have to help produce the new...

Northern Graphite's mine in Lac-des-Iles, Quebec. Photo: Sebastien St-Jean/AFP/Getty

The Electric: A Big Deal in Saudi Arabia Sent This Graphite Miner’s Shares Soaring

By Steve LeVine · Jan 19, 2026 4:30am PST

Northern Graphite's mine in Lac-des-Iles, Quebec. Photo: Sebastien St-Jean/AFP/Getty

The Electric: A Big Deal in Saudi Arabia Sent This Graphite Miner’s Shares Soaring

By Steve LeVine · Jan 19, 2026 4:30am PST

For more than two decades, Northern Graphite has plodded along as a middling if sometimes plucky Canadian mining company. Then last week, Northern said its revenue would jump eightfold to $250 million in the next few years as it shifts from merely mining graphite to processing it into the final material used to make battery anodes. The news... For more than two decades, Northern Graphite has plodded along as a middling if sometimes plucky...

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Thinking Machines Exodus Tests Investor Appetite for a $50 Billion Valuation

By Erin Woo and Stephanie Palazzolo · Jan 17, 2026 3:36pm PST · 5 comments

The timing couldn’t have been more awkward for Thinking Machines Lab. On Wednesday, during an all-hands meeting at the AI startup, its CEO, Mira Murati, announced that she had fired one of Thinking Machines’ co-founders, its Chief Technology Officer Barret Zoph, for poor performance and speaking with competitors, according to a person familiar... The timing couldn’t have been more awkward for Thinking Machines Lab. On Wednesday, during an...

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Why Google, Amazon and OpenAI Are on a Collision Course Over AI Commerce

By The Information Staff · Jan 14, 2026 1:07pm PST

AI-powered shopping is becoming a new area of competition among major technology companies, e-commerce platforms and retailers, each pursuing different approaches to how consumers discover and purchase products online. These efforts range from proprietary shopping agents to shared commerce protocols and embedded checkout systems that could... AI-powered shopping is becoming a new area of competition among major technology companies,...