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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AI Agenda

‘AI Native’ Startups Double Annualized Revenue to $30 Billion in Seven Months

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Jan 14, 2026 7:00am PST · 1 comment
The revenue picture for AI startups is brightening, a bit. In just seven months, annualized revenue at “AI native” companies selling AI models or apps has doubled, from $15 billion to more than $30 billion, according to an analysis of 32 companies from The Information’s Generative AI Database.One problem: OpenAI and Anthropic make... The revenue picture for AI startups is brightening, a bit. In just seven months, annualized...
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Chipmaker Cerebras in Talks to Raise $1 Billion at a $22 Billion Valuation

By Valida Pau and Anissa Gardizy · Jan 13, 2026 2:04pm PST
AI chip startup Cerebras Systems is in talks to raise about $1 billion, valuing the company at $22 billion before the new investment, as the chipmaker prepares to go public this year, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. That’s a big jump from its last private valuation of $8.1 billion in September 2025, when it raised $1.1... AI chip startup Cerebras Systems is in talks to raise about $1 billion, valuing the company at...
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Google Flips OpenAI’s Shopping Strategy on Its Head

By Ann Gehan · Jan 13, 2026 1:09pm PST · 1 comment
Google’s latest AI pitch to retailers is simple: Google isn’t planning to take a cut of purchases made through its Gemini AI chatbot and search results. Instead, it plans to make money from its AI shopping push by selling a new type of ads to retailers. That approach is opposite that of OpenAI, which announced checkouts inside ChatGPT in... Google’s latest AI pitch to retailers is simple: Google isn’t planning to take a cut of purchases...
Andrew Dai, co-founder of Elorian and former researcher at Google DeepMind. Photo via YouTube/Databricks.
Former Google, Apple Researchers Raising $50 Million for New Visual AI Startup
By Kevin McLaughlin · Jan 10, 2026 11:48am PST · 3 comments
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Former Google, Apple Researchers Raising $50 Million for New Visual AI Startup

By Kevin McLaughlin · Jan 10, 2026 11:48am PST · 3 comments
Andrew Dai, a veteran AI researcher who recently left Google DeepMind after 14 years, is launching a new startup focused on AI models that understand and process text, images, video and audio simultaneously, Dai said. The new startup, Elorian, is in talks with investors to raise a seed round of around $50 million, said Dai and another person... Andrew Dai, a veteran AI researcher who recently left Google DeepMind after 14 years, is...
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Applied AI

How Amazon Is Pulling Ahead of OpenAI With AI Shopping Agents

By Ann Gehan and Kevin McLaughlin · Jan 8, 2026 10:59am PST · 1 comment
It seems like these days, every big e-commerce and AI company is racing to figure out how to make AI agents that can shop just like a human. In the case of Amazon, the company’s version of AI-powered shopping is becoming widespread enough to step on other retailers’ toes—evidence that it’s pulling ahead in the nascent market.Earlier this week,... It seems like these days, every big e-commerce and AI company is racing to figure out how to make...
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Google’s Chatbot Health Move Can’t Be Far Behind OpenAI’s

By Amir Efrati · Jan 8, 2026 7:00am PST · 1 comment
OpenAI’s official foray into health, unveiled in this post on Wednesday, has been a long time coming, as we explained last summer. In short, OpenAI is creating a special section of ChatGPT for customers to ask health-related questions and dump data from their personal health apps and wearable devices to get personalized advice. The features... OpenAI’s official foray into health, unveiled in this post on Wednesday, has been a long time...
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OpenAI’s Shopping Ambitions Hit Messy Data Reality

By Ann Gehan · Jan 8, 2026 6:00am PST
OpenAI’s efforts to turn ChatGPT into a go-to personal shopper are off to a slow start. Challenges with wrangling product data mean in-app checkouts aren’t yet widely available to the millions of shops that OpenAI said in September would soon be coming to ChatGPT. OpenAI and its early partners, Shopify and Stripe, have been working on ways to... OpenAI’s efforts to turn ChatGPT into a go-to personal shopper are off to a slow start. ...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presents at CES. Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty Images.
Nvidia’s Clever Approach to Its New Self-Driving Car Model
By Rocket Drew · Jan 6, 2026 7:30am PST
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presents at CES. Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty Images.
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Nvidia’s Clever Approach to Its New Self-Driving Car Model

By Rocket Drew · Jan 6, 2026 7:30am PST
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at CES on Monday to deliver a volley of announcements—Nvidia published 10 press releases during his keynote! Many of those announcements focused on Nvidia’s work on physical AI, such as autonomous robots and cars, so it was fitting that a pair of Huang’s favorite remote controlled Disney droids accompanied... Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at CES on Monday to deliver a volley of announcements—...
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The Arena

From Lululemon to Tracksmith, Sportswear Brands Face an Inflection Point

By Sara Germano · Jan 3, 2026 6:00am PST
For Christmas this holiday season, I bought my mom a navy blue 1980 Lake Placid Olympics sweater. It has special significance for her because, as a college student in upstate New York at the time, she got to attend the famous “Miracle on Ice” hockey game between the U.S. and Soviet Union in person. Now, almost half a century later, my mom... For Christmas this holiday season, I bought my mom a navy blue 1980 Lake Placid Olympics sweater....
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Predictions

What We Got Right (and Wrong) in Our Predictions for 2025

By The Information Staff · Jan 2, 2026 10:34am PST · 3 comments
What’s that smell? It’s the whiff of humble pie being eaten by The Information’s prognosticators. A year ago, we made a series of predictions about tech deals that would get done, executives who would leave their companies and other events that we thought might happen in 2025. Many of those predictions did not come to pass. In our defense, when... What’s that smell? It’s the whiff of humble pie being eaten by The Information’s prognosticators....
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OpenAI Ramps Up Audio AI Efforts Ahead of Device

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Jan 1, 2026 7:00am PST · 2 comments
OpenAI is taking steps to improve its audio AI models, in preparation for its eventual release of an AI-powered personal device, said a person with knowledge of the effort. The device is expected to be largely audio-based, said three people with knowledge of it. When people speak to ChatGPT, the chatbot can talk back but the large language model... OpenAI is taking steps to improve its audio AI models, in preparation for its eventual release of...
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The Top AI Themes of 2025 and What We’re Watching For Next Year
By Stephanie Palazzolo · Dec 30, 2025 7:00am PST · 1 comment
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The Top AI Themes of 2025 and What We’re Watching For Next Year

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Dec 30, 2025 7:00am PST · 1 comment
Meta Platform’s announcement on Monday that it has acquired Chinese agent startup Manus represents a big win for Manus’ backers, including Benchmark, ZhenFund and HongShan, who last invested in Manus in an April funding round that valued it at $500 million. Meta is paying more than $2 billion, my colleague Juro Osawa has reported (as have other... Meta Platform’s announcement on Monday that it has acquired Chinese agent startup Manus...
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10 Charts That Explain 2025

By Shane Burke and The Information Staff · Dec 29, 2025 6:00am PST · 7 comments
Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence dominated another year in tech. As AI firms like OpenAI and Anthropic raced to release smarter models, the largest tech firms mapped out massive data centers that would guzzle up more energy than tens of millions of American households to power them. “Agent” became the industry’s favorite buzzword for... Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence dominated another year in tech. As AI firms like...
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The Best New Tech and Business Podcasts 2025

By Abram Brown · Dec 27, 2025 6:00am PST · 1 comment
Quantity is so often the enemy of quality, a truth made plainly apparent across podcast feeds these days: Everyone and their cousin—or, rather, everyone and their Series B investor—is trying to do a lengthy chat show, seated behind high-end video cameras and the same set of Shure mics that Joe Rogan uses. In other words, our feeds... Quantity is so often the enemy of quality, a truth made plainly apparent across podcast feeds...
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Stablecoin Startups Spark Trouble for JPMorgan

By Michael Roddan and Yueqi Yang · Dec 26, 2025 6:00am PST
JPMorgan Chase in recent months has frozen accounts used by at least two fast-growing stablecoin startups, highlighting the risk that cryptocurrency transactions pose for banks, which are required to know the people they do business with and the source of their cash. The stablecoin startups did business in Venezuela and other places that posed... JPMorgan Chase in recent months has frozen accounts used by at least two fast-growing stablecoin...
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Two IPO-Bound AI Model Developers Reveal Their Losses
By Juro Osawa · Dec 24, 2025 7:00am PST
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Two IPO-Bound AI Model Developers Reveal Their Losses

By Juro Osawa · Dec 24, 2025 7:00am PST
Two Chinese AI startups are vying to be the first publicly traded AI model providers in the global stock market, ahead of expected future initial public offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic. The Chinese firms’ IPO filings offer a window into the hardship facing smaller AI firms that don’t have older cash-cow businesses.Shanghai-based MiniMax... Two Chinese AI startups are vying to be the first publicly traded AI model providers in the...