Stripe finalized a deal to acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for over $7 billion, up from a $1.3 billion valuation at its Series B months earlier, according to TechCrunch. OpenAI disbanded its pre…
Payments firm Adyen said the rise of AI chatbots handling consumer shopping is pushing merchants to protect direct customer relationships and loyalty, with one merchant generating 70% of its volume th…
A developer's guide details how to integrate AI-powered payments in a React JS app, combining gateways like Stripe with fraud detection, adaptive checkout, and anomaly scoring. The approach uses clien…
A developer built an open-source Magento 2 module, angeo/module-mcp-checkout, that enables AI agents like Claude to place real orders via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) without browser automation. T…
South Park Commons portfolio companies raised over $1.5 billion in June 2026, including Baseten's $1.5B Series F at a $13B valuation for AI inference and Orb's $335M acquisition by Adyen. AXION launch…
Adyen launched Adyen Agentic, a modular API suite enabling AI-driven commerce through conversational channels, with early partners including American Express, Mastercard, Visa, and Salesforce. The sui…
Airwallex closed a $320 million Series H round on June 25, 2026, raising its valuation to $11 billion from $8 billion six months earlier. The global payments platform plans to use the funds to develop…
Amazon is heavily promoting its AI assistants, Alexa and Rufus, during Prime Day to transform the shopping experience, but early evidence shows shoppers are using them more as fact-checkers than compa…
At Open Source Summit North America 2026, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) proposed an open infrastructure for agentic commerce, citing a Bain forecast that agentic shopping coul…
Mastercard launched Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M) on June 10, 2026, a payments service enabling programmatic transactions between AI agents and machines using cards, bank accounts, and stablecoins. Th…
Mastercard launched Agent Pay for Machines with Stripe, Coinbase, Adyen, and 30 other partners, covering agent identity, spend limits, and payment settlement. However, it does not address execution sa…
Adyen trained a Transaction Foundation Model on 51 trillion tokens using Ray, while Xoople, Criteo, and BMW shared their own scaling AI stories at Anyscale's Ray Day London event. The event highlighte…
Rhumb has scored 1,038 payment services across 20 dimensions for agent compatibility, producing a planner-readable `provider_profile_receipt` that sits alongside wallet and settlement proofs. The eval…