The US Census Bureau raised income thresholds for nonemployer businesses in 2022, revealing a surge in solopreneurs. Multiple data sources show solo founders are growing faster than employer businesse…
A developer has released mcp-guard, an open-source security gateway that sits between AI agents and MCP servers to enforce authentication, rate limiting, audit logging, and spending controls. The tool…
Contraband, a ticketed VR cinema for indie and AI-made films, launches on Meta Quest headsets, giving filmmakers direct ticket revenue via Stripe. The platform aims to bypass traditional distribution …
Large language models are transforming software development by making coding accessible and affordable, akin to how IKEA revolutionized furniture assembly. This shift enables individuals to build util…
AI companies and founders are hosting intimate, curated dinner parties and events to cultivate cool and build real-world communities as taste becomes a key differentiator in the competitive AI industr…
Billionaire fund managers David Tepper and Seth Klarman have made Amazon their largest portfolio holding, with Appaloosa Management nearly doubling its stake and Baupost Group increasing its position …
A former bartender with no coding background built Growl, an AI-powered marketing tool for local businesses, after struggling to attract customers. The developer used an AI persona named Sage as a co-…
Hezo, a self-hosted platform for teams of AI agents, launches to let users manage autonomous agents without exposing secrets. The system encrypts keys with AES-256-GCM, sandboxes agents in Docker cont…
Stripe, Anthropic, and the OpenAI Foundation are backing a new $500 million nonprofit called Intercept aimed at preventing respiratory infections like the common cold and flu. The organization will fu…
An engineer at an AI SaaS company rebuilt their billing system after discovering that a single integer column for user credits made it impossible to trace refunds, duplicate charges, and usage history…
A developer created leak_probe.py, an 80-line Python tool that checks which secrets actually ship in an npm package versus those found in the git repository. Testing showed 6 secret hits in the repo b…
A new SignalFire report analyzing hiring data across 80 million companies finds that engineering roles have declined only 11% from pre-pandemic levels, compared to a 25% drop in total tech hiring. The…
A developer compared AI app builders Lovable and Velra for Stripe integration. Lovable excels at generating polished React apps and can scaffold Stripe checkout, but full subscription billing usually …
A developer detailed how to integrate Stripe subscriptions into an AI-built app, emphasizing the need for webhooks, idempotency, and local billing state mirroring to handle renewals, cancellations, an…
Mycelium, a new tool from Kopicappu, provides AI coding agents with persistent, queryable memory of an entire codebase via a single command. It parses files, resolves imports, and builds a dependency …
A new $500 million fund called Intercept, backed by Stripe and Anthropic, launched June 24 to finance treatments and technologies aimed at eliminating respiratory infections like the common cold and f…
Stripe, Anthropic, and OpenAI are backing Intercept, a new $500-million nonprofit aimed at preventing respiratory infections like the common cold and flu through vaccines and air-cleaning systems. The…
Tempo and Stripe have launched MPP Credits, a new payment method that allows developers to fund AI agents using credit or debit cards through the Machine Payments Protocol. The credits enable agents t…
Anthropic launched Claude Tag, a Slack-native agent that teams can tag to delegate tasks asynchronously. The feature, which has been used internally to write 65% of the product team's code, marks a sh…
A developer built RunPay, a Stripe-native marketplace that lets AI agents automatically discover and pay for third-party APIs using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Stripe's Agent Toolkit. The pla…