Stripe is in talks to acquire AI startup OpenRouter for roughly $10 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal, marking a significant expansion beyond payments for the company. OpenRouter, valued a…
Meta hired Assaf Keren as its new chief information security officer from Qualtrics and PayPal, replacing Guy Rosen who announced his departure in June after 13 years. Keren said he would focus on bui…
About 82% of the 156,975 tech jobs eliminated globally in the first half of 2026 came from US companies, according to a new report from TradingPlatforms, a UK-based research firm. Almost half of the c…
A developer built a fully automated SaaS platform that deploys AI agents within 90 seconds of payment, with zero manual steps. The pipeline uses PayPal webhooks, Docker containers, and New-API for tok…
Verizon is laying off about 3,000 retail workers and transferring 274 corporate stores to independent owners under CEO Dan Schulman, who expects AI to replace a large percentage of customer service wo…
ReactBench v1, a new evaluation for coding agents on realistic React work, finds that top models like GPT 5.6 Sol score only 43.1% on tests that measure performance, accessibility, and quality issues …
Private equity firms are aggressively acquiring ecommerce and payments companies, with Stripe and Advent jointly bidding $53 billion for PayPal, Criteo receiving a buyout offer at a 50% premium, and K…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol achieved the highest score on ReactBench v1 at 43.1%, a new benchmark for coding agents on realistic React tasks, while Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 scored 41.2% at 6.3 times the co…
Socket's AI scanner flagged a malicious NuGet package named Braintree.Net on July 3, 2026, which impersonates the official Braintree SDK to steal credit card data, merchant API keys, and host secrets.…
Argutum, a new AI chat platform, pays users for high-quality messages scored in real time across five dimensions, with scores above 75 earning up to $0.085 per message. Users can request PayPal payout…
A developer discovered that AI recommendation systems favor brands with clear, well-structured online information rather than objectively better products. An experiment with bubble tea brands showed t…
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel called Pope Leo XIV a 'Chinese communist agent' at the Aspen Ideas Festival on July 2, 2026, after the pope released an encyclical pushing for global AI regulatio…
COOCON, a South Korean business data platform company, announced on June 29 it is accelerating its Model Context Protocol (MCP)-based data business for the AI agent era, aiming to become a dedicated d…
By 2026, Donald Trump serves a second non-consecutive term as U.S. President, Elon Musk is the world's richest man from rockets, EVs, and AI, Apple's main business is smartphones, and the largest taxi…
PayPal's stablecoin PYUSD is now live on Kite, an AI-focused blockchain, using LayerZero and Stargate Finance for cross-chain bridging from Ethereum and Solana. The integration aims to support Kite's …
A vendor-commissioned study by Commerce and PayPal found 64% of 1,000 UK online shoppers are interested in agentic AI shopping assistants, but only 21% currently use AI for shopping. 46% believe brand…
Top marketing executives from Duolingo, Gap, and American Express said at Business Insider's CMO Insider Breakfast that prioritizing creative risk-taking over AI and brand safety is key to success in …
Digital nomads can form a US LLC remotely without a US address or SSN, gaining access to payment processors like Stripe and US banking through fintechs. Wyoming, Delaware, and New Mexico are top state…
Google, Meta, PayPal, Chainalysis, and other tech and crypto firms announced a joint commitment on June 22 to combat illegal wildlife trafficking using AI detection tools and blockchain analytics. The…
The domain Moduna.com is listed for sale at $795 on HugeDomains, with a payment plan option of $33.13 per month for 24 months. The listing includes testimonials, a 30-day money-back guarantee, and det…