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| 18.09.2026 | How E-commerce and SaaS Businesses Can Add Crypto Payments Without Rebuilding Their Payment Stack | IMPORTANT NOTICE
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| 18.09.2026 | Paid for a Streaming Subscription but Can’t Watch? Check These Three Records | Share
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Suppose your checkout is complete and a transaction appears in your banking app, but the streaming service still asks you to subscrib... |
| 15.09.2026 | LocalStack Acquires WonderTwin AI to Let Developers and AI Agents Build Integrations Locally | , the market leader in local cloud development, announced that it has acquired WonderTwin AI, a provider of local application emulators for AI-native software development workflows including GitHub, HubSpot, PostHog, Stripe and other applic... |
| 10.09.2026 | Virtual Cards Market Trends: Fintech Adoption and Digital Payment Infrastructure Support Market Growth | Virtual Cards Market Size
The Virtual Cards Market is becoming an important part of digital payments as businesses and consumers increasingly use digital card credentials for online, mobile, and controlled-spend transactions. The Virtual Ca... |
| 04.09.2026 | Nvidia acquires Hugging Face after Stripe nabs OpenRouter: here's what open source AI builders should do | The open-model ecosystem is not disappearing. But two multibillion-dollar acquisitions show that the neutral infrastructure developers rely on to find, download, compare and run AI models has become some of the most strategically valuable t... |
| 03.09.2026 | Archive AI Scoops Up Strategic Funding Round |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Archive AI, an AI-native creator marketing platform, announced a new strategic funding round.
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| 02.09.2026 | Archive Closes Funding | Archive, a Los Angeles, CA-based provider of an AI-native creator marketing platform, raised an undisclosed amount in funding.
The round was led by Anti Fund and Florida Funders, with participation from Battery Ventures, Stripe, Tiger Globa... |
| 01.09.2026 | China's Z.ai Unmasks Ox Alpha: Driving Global AI Innovation on Domestic Chips | China's Z.ai publicly claimed the mysterious Ox Alpha AI model. This reveal confirmed Ox Alpha as Z.ai's GLM-5.3-Flash, an advanced open-weight, multimodal model. The company's anonymous testing strategy successfully generated widespread in... |
| 01.09.2026 | Felix Pago Raises $200M: Federal Cash Tax Hits Competitors, Exempts Digital Transfers | By Ryan Cook
Published: Sep 01 2026, 5:51 PM EDT
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| 01.09.2026 | Nvidia обнимает открытые модели | Nvidia обнимает открытые модели Для Nvidia сделка с Hugging Face может стать крупнейшей покупкой в истории
Nvidia договорилась приобрести репозиторий для хранения и тестирования открытых ИИ-моделей Hugging Face за $12,9 млрд. Об этом сообща... |
| 31.08.2026 | Singapore's developer scene was broken, not cracked. Vibe coding fixed it. | When Yong Quan Tan graduated from college in 2023, he was still thinking of himself as a "traditional software engineer."
Playing around with OpenAI's GPT -4, which had come out that March, worried him that his developer skills wo... |
| 31.08.2026 | AppSavvy Launches AI Transformation Practice After Ohana's $60M Growth | AppSavvy Logo
Boutique agency AppSavvy debuts a new AI Transformation service, drawing on its work scaling Ohana to $60 million in projected 2026 payment volume.
The fastest way to get AI into a product is to build on what's already working... |
| 29.08.2026 | Необанк своими руками. Какие провайдеры нужны для запуска крипто-финтеха в 2026 году? | Не знаю, как вы, а я всегда хотел свой банк… Долгое время это было почти недостижимо: лицензия, многомиллионный капитал и годы переписки с регулятором. Но за последние пару лет многое изменилось: теперь необанк можно собрать из нескольких г... |
| 28.08.2026 | AI War Heats Up: Nvidia Counters China, Mystery Model Surges, Markets React | Global AI competition intensifies. Chinese labs push cheap, open models. Nvidia counters with a $6B open-source AI investment. A mysterious, powerful "Ox Alpha" model emerges, fueling origin speculation. AI boosts Micron stock; it... |
| 28.08.2026 | The Ghost in the Machine: Who Built Ox Alpha? | Ox Alpha, a mysterious AI model, impresses developers with free, powerful coding and reasoning capabilities. Its anonymous origin sparks intense debate. Initial speculation favored a Chinese lab, linked to a viral movie and technical simila... |
| 28.08.2026 | PayPal stock just crashed 14%; Here’s why |
After enjoying a 5.40% climb to its latest closing price of $61.47 over the last 30 days of trading, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) stock suffered a sudden and steep reversal in the night between Thursday and Friday, August 28.
Specifically, PYPL s... |
| 28.08.2026 | Advent, Stripe consortium is said to drop pursuit of PayPal, Bloomberg News reports | Aug 27 : A consortium of buyout firm Advent and payment processor Stripe has decided to abandon its pursuit of fintech pioneer PayPal, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
PayPal, Stripe and Advent de... |
| 27.08.2026 | The cow comes home: China’s Internet celebrates Z.ai claiming ownership of Ox Alpha | One of China's leading AI labs has claimed the cow — aka the mysterious Ox Alpha model — and Chinese fans couldn't be happier.
In a Wednesday blog post, Z.ai said Ox Alpha had been a free-to-use preview of its new GLM-5.3-Flash model. The m... |
| 27.08.2026 | Daily Stock Market Live
S&P 500 falls Friday after Fed’s Warsh highlights inflation worries, but index posts positive week | The S&P 500 fell on Friday, but still notched a winning week, after Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh conveyed some worry over current inflation trends.
The broad market index lost 0.25% and closed at 7,711.76, while the Nasdaq Compo... |
| 27.08.2026 | Nvidia punta a Hugging Face: operazione da 12,9 miliardi | Nvidia avrebbe raggiunto un accordo per acquisire Hugging Face per 12,9 miliardi di dollari. A riportarlo è The Information, che cita una fonte a conoscenza della trattativa. Il quadro, tuttavia, non è ancora del tutto definito: Business In... |
| 27.08.2026 | International Payment Platforms for Australian Businesses Expanding Globally in Singapore | Share
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In today’s interconnected world, Australian businesses are increasingly looking to expand their reach into Singapore, a vibrant hub for commerce and finance. One of the crucial components of international expan... |
| 26.08.2026 | Mystery solved: Chinese lab Z.ai says it’s behind the Ox Alpha model that wowed Silicon Valley | Chinese tech company Z.ai says it was behind the mysterious free AI model, Ox Alpha, that generated buzz for its performance.
In a blog post published on Wednesday, Z.ai said Ox Alpha was an anonymous preview of its new GLM-5.3-Flash model,... |
| 26.08.2026 | Arga Labs Raises $10 Million Seed Funding As AI Agent Simulator Clones SaaS Environments In Under 12 Hours | Arga Labs has raised $10 million in seed funding to expand its simulation platform for testing AI agents against realistic software environments before deploying them into production. General Catalyst led the round, with participation from ... |
| 25.08.2026 | Can the Capital Access Window finally revive AIM? | August is usually a sleepy time for capital markets. Investors head off on their summer jaunts, firms take a breath after a frenzy of results in late July and advisors start mapping out back-to-school plans for September. Not so in the worl... |
| 25.08.2026 | Stripe Opens Checkout to 85% of ASEAN Consumers Unreachable by Cards Alone | By Daniel Butler
Published: Aug 25 2026, 3:48 PM EDT
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| 24.08.2026 | Stripe Acquires OpenRouter: Payments Leader Dives Deeper into AI Economy | Payments powerhouse Stripe acquires AI model gateway OpenRouter. The deal is valued at over $8 billion. This acquisition firmly cements Stripe's expansion into artificial intelligence. OpenRouter is crucial for optimizing AI token usage. It... |
| 24.08.2026 | Хаб для ИИ-моделей Hugging Face начала переговоры о продаже за $13 млрд | Стартап Hugging Face — платформа, где разработчики публикуют, тестируют и запускают в том числе открытые ИИ-модели, — изучает возможность продажи при оценке не менее $13 млрд. Об этом сообщило издание Business Insider. За последние два меся... |
| 23.08.2026 | Hugging Face has been fielding M&A interest for a deal worth at least $13 billion | The AI industry's next blockbuster acquisition may not be another model maker.
Hugging Face, whose platform helps developers discover, share, and build AI models, has been exploring a sale that could value the company at $13 billion or more... |
| 22.08.2026 | A mysterious free AI model is impressing developers. And nobody knows who made it. | A mysterious new AI model is making the rounds among developers — and nobody is saying who built it.
Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter on Thursday as a "stealth model" from an anonymous third-party provider. OpenRouter describes it ... |
| 22.08.2026 | Stripe president says checkout pages ‘will go away’ as AI commerce expands | AI agents are poised to radically reshape how we buy stuff online, a top Stripe executive predicts.
"It's been very easy to get through a checkout page these days, but should you even need to go to one, or should you just be able to sa... |
| 21.08.2026 | Stripe to buy AI gateway OpenRouter for $8bn | Irish-founded payments group Stripe has agreed to acquire the AI model gateway and routing platform OpenRouter in a deal reportedly worth more than $8bn.
OpenRouter helps businesses route and optimise token usage, and the deal represents St... |
| 20.08.2026 | Payments firm Stripe to buy marketplace OpenRouter in AI push | Previous
FILE PHOTO: Small toy figures are seen in front of Stripe logo in this illustration picture taken March 15, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
A smartphone with the Stripe logo is placed on a laptop in this illustrati... |
| 20.08.2026 | GainTrace Launches AI Customer Success Platform as SaaS Retention Falls to 84% | today opened general availability of its AI customer success platform for B2B SaaS revenue teams, built on a premise that separates it from the rest of the category: the software is designed to be run by a customer success manager, not by a... |
| 20.08.2026 | Bristol Myers Squibb Partners with Chai Discovery for AI Antibody Design | What You Should Know
Chai Discovery announced a strategic biopharmaceutical collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) to advance the discovery and engineering of therapeutic antibodies using artificial intelligence.
Bristol Myers Squibb... |
| 20.08.2026 | Американская платежная компания Stripe покупает AI платформу OpenRouter более чем за $8 млрд | Платежная компания Stripe договорилась о покупке OpenRouter — платформы, которая позволяет компаниям направлять запросы между десятками AI-моделей и оптимизировать использование токенов.
Компании не раскрыли стоимость сделки, однако источни... |
| 19.08.2026 | Stripe to buy OpenRouter as fintech expands deeper into AI | Stripe said it’s acquiring OpenRouter, as the payments company expands into the artificial intelligence model market.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the New York Times said the price tag is about $7.5 billion, with $1.5 billion a... |
| 18.08.2026 | Andreessen Horowitz could make close to $1.5 billion from OpenRouter's potential sale to Stripe | Stripe's multi-billion-dollar pursuit of AI model marketplace startup OpenRouter isn't just creating one of the biggest AI acquisitions of the year; it's minting venture capital firms' speedy wins.
Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures are... |
| 18.08.2026 | Stripe increases prize money for Young Scientist by 25% | Stripe has increased the prize fund for the Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition by 25%, with the overall winner set to receive €10,000.
There will be more than 200 prizes awarded at next year's exhibition, and the overall winner wil... |
| 18.08.2026 | Holdings Launches Free AI Invoicing That Works Inside Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor | the connected financial platform for founders and operators, today launched free invoicing that runs directly inside AI assistants, including Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and the Cursor code editor. Using the Model Context Protocol... |
| 18.08.2026 | Razorpay Vulcan Routes Indian Payments With Transformer AI: What It Knows About You | By Terrence Hill
Published: Aug 18 2026, 9:11 AM EDT
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| 18.08.2026 | Razorpay launches Vulcan AI model for payment routing and fraud detection | Indian fintech company Razorpay has launched Vulcan, an AI foundation model designed to improve the reliability and security of digital payments.
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The Bengaluru-based company said Vulcan, a transformer-based model built using te... |
| 17.08.2026 | Stripe Closes $7 Billion OpenRouter Deal: Payment Giant Now Bills and Routes AI Traffic | By Terrence Hill
Published: Aug 17 2026, 7:18 AM EDT
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| 17.08.2026 | Bloomberg: Stripe купит ИИ-шлюз OpenRouter более чем за $7 млрд | Платежный сервис Stripe заключил соглашение о покупке стартапа OpenRouter, который выступает посредником между разработчиками и различными моделями искусственного интеллекта. Об этом со ссылкой на источники сообщило агентство Bloomberg. Сум... |
| 14.08.2026 | Ambrook raises $30 million | Financial management platform Ambrook Ambrook
Founded: 2020
Headquarters: New York, New York, United States
Total Funding: $59M
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| 13.08.2026 | Thrive Holdings Raises $2B To Expand AI-Powered Business Roll-Ups | Thrive Holdings Raises $2B At $12B Valuation
Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation. SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners and Altimeter Capital led the financing. The round marks the first external investme... |
| 13.08.2026 | Apple CEO Tim Cook Picked Anticompetitive Strategy; VP Alex Roman Lied Under Oath | By Zachary Chambers
Published: Aug 13 2026, 2:46 PM EDT
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| 12.08.2026 | Agritech and Foodtech Surge: AI and Biotech Redefine Global Food Systems | Agritech and foodtech markets are booming. Significant capital infuses AI, biotech, and sustainable solutions across the global food system. Ambrook closed a $30M Series B for farm financial management software, reaching 8,000 customers. Pl... |
| 10.08.2026 | Ambrook Raises $30M in Series B Funding | Ambrook, a Denver, CO-based provider of a financial management and bookkeeping platform built for industries in the “real economy”, raised $30m in Series B funding.
The round was led by former Stripe executive Lachy Groom, with participatio... |
| 07.08.2026 | Claude Opus 5 удалила данные пользователя вместо создания резервной копии с помощью «rm -rf» для всего диска на ПК | ИИ‑агент Anthropic Claude Opus 5 во время выполнения запроса пользователя «сделать резервное копирование на ПК» перепутал правильное написание каталога и написал «/c/Users/harih» вместо каталога «C:\Users\harih». После этого процедура резер... |
| 07.08.2026 | Zyaku Launche an Offline-First AI Operating System for the Next Internet, Redefining Creator-First Social Infrastructure | Inc. today announced the public availability of Zyaku, an Offline-First AI Operating System for the Next Internet that reimagines how people create, connect, collaborate, and build digital communities. Developed as a creator-first platform ... |
| 07.08.2026 | llms.txt — кто его реально читает и нужен ли он вашему сайту | Ну что, сыграем сегодня в разрушителей мифов? Тем более, именно этот миф набил оскомину и пару маркетинговых физиономий. Итак, давайте разбираться, что же такое этот наш элэлэмс текст, зачем он нужен и нужен ли вообще.
llms.txt — мarkdown-ф... |
| 06.08.2026 | Top Tech News Today, August 6, 2026: Google, Meta, OpenAI, Robinhood, SpaceX, Tencent, Unitree & More | It’s Thursday, August 6, 2026, and the tech world just hit a rare triple pulse: AI models from Meta and OpenAI slipped containment during security tests and started rewriting systems they were never meant to touch, Google DeepMind tore up i... |
| 06.08.2026 | Vercel Appoints Amit Agarwal, Standard Template Labs CEO and former Datadog President, to Board of Directors | Vercel, the agentic infrastructure company, today announced the appointment of Amit Agarwal, former president of Datadog and founder and CEO of Standard Template Labs, an AI-first service management platform, to its board of directors. Agar... |
| 04.08.2026 | Shiplog raises $1M to build AI customer intelligence for B2B SaaS | Paris-based Shiplog has raised about $1 million in a pre-seed round to build an AI-powered customer lifecycle and expansion platform for B2B SaaS companies.
The round is backed by Kima Ventures and Project Europe, alongside Purple, No Label... |
| 04.08.2026 | RigorLoop Launches Research Bounty Marketplace Where AI Agents Can Hire Vetted Human Experts | https://rigorloop.com
Verified experts can apply to open Research Bounties or receive private invitations from posters seeking a particular specialty. The poster reviews each applicant’s profile, credentials, proposed scope, and offer befor... |
| 03.08.2026 | Обеденный клуб, картонка и утюг: как появилась кредитная карта | Фрэнк Макнамара ужинал в нью-йоркском Major's Cabin Grill, потянулся за кошельком и понял, что оставил его в другом пиджаке. Счёт оплатила приехавшая жена. Через год Макнамара вернулся в тот же ресторан и расплатился картонной карточкой.
Кр... |
| 03.08.2026 | Сначала платежи, потом ТОО: как казахстанскому фаундеру не потерять месяцы на международном SaaS | Я хотел сделать все правильно: казахстанская команда, казахстанское юрлицо, понятная бухгалтерия, налоги в Казахстане, Astana Hub, нормальный путь без серых схем.
На уровне регистрации все выглядит хорошо. ТОО можно открыть быстро, получить... |
| 03.08.2026 | Как за вами следит Яндекс: часть 1/3 | Яндекс - 69,9% поискового рынка РФ, 110+ млн пользователей в месяц, десятки сервисов: поиск, браузер, карты, маркет, такси, музыка, почта, диск, алиса, еда, погода, кинопоиск, плюс... Если у вас андроид - Яндекс.Поиск и Яндекс.Браузер почти... |
| 01.08.2026 | Внедрение AI в дизайн-процесс: что реально работает, а что пока только обещано | В твиттере дизайн уже "мёртв". Хендофф "не нужен". Любой человек с промптом якобы делает за час то, на что раньше уходила неделя работы дизайн-команды. Стивен Хейни, основатель дизайн-инструмента Paper, решил это провери... |
| 01.08.2026 | Discern: $10 Million Series A Raised To Automate State Filings | Discern, a software-first registered agent that automates state filings, has raised a $10 million Series A funding round led by Walkabout Ventures and Bungalow Capital. The round follows 4x ARR growth in 2025 and brings the company’s total ... |
| 31.07.2026 | How Leopold Aschenbrenner built a $45 billion AI hedge fund — and lost most of it in days | Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI hedge fund, Situational Awareness, collapsed from $45 billion to around $10 billion in assets on falling semiconductor stocks and mounting margin calls.
Driven by reported leverage of up t... |
| 28.07.2026 | PayPal Q2 Beat and Raised Outlook Put Stripe’s $60.50 Bid Further Out of Reach | By Ryan Cook
Published: Jul 28 2026, 1:51 PM EDT
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| 28.07.2026 | GM redesigned its engineering workflows around AI agents — and tripled its merged pull requests | Software engineers at General Motors' (GM's) autonomous driving division spend only 15% of their time writing code, according to Rashed Haq, GM's VP of autonomous vehicles, in a recent onstage interview at VB Transform 2026.
GM is now using... |
| 28.07.2026 | PayPal presses on with turnaround in pivotal quarter as sale questions linger | July 28 : PayPal doubled down on its turnaround plan on Tuesday, raising its 2026 profit forecast and outlining cost-saving steps, as it looks to convince investors that it is worth more than the $53 billion takeover offer that analysts des... |
| 24.07.2026 | Stripe начала переговоры о покупке OpenRouter за $10 млрд | Платежный сервис Stripe ведет переговоры о приобретении стартапа OpenRouter — платформы, которая дает разработчикам доступ к сотням моделей искусственного интеллекта через единый интерфейс. Об этом сообщает издание The Wall Street Journal с... |
| 23.07.2026 | Lorikeet Names Jerry Brooner Chief Revenue Officer to Scale Its AI Concierge Platform Across Fintech, Healthcare, and Insurance | Former Dropbox, SAP, and Decagon go-to-market leader will bring Lorikeet's AI concierge to more regulated teams resolving their hardest support cases.
SYDNEY, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Lorikeet, the AI concierge platform for complex, re... |
| 22.07.2026 | Ryder Cup adds financial services firm to global sponsorship roster | The Ryder Cup has beefed up its partner portfolio ahead of next year’s event, signing a deal with an Irish-founded financial services firm.
Stripe has become a worldwide partner for the next two editions of the intercontinental golf competi... |
| 21.07.2026 | Goldman Sachs creates private markets platform as rich investors seek the next SpaceX and Stripe | Goldman Sachs has created a new platform to expand its offerings for wealthy clients and family offices who want direct stakes in private companies.
The new group, called the alternative investments platform, combines Goldman’s existing alt... |
| 20.07.2026 | Fintech Giants Eye PayPal: A $53 Billion Reshaping of Digital Payments | Stripe and Advent International delivered a $53 billion takeover bid for PayPal. The offer, $60.50 per share, represents a strong 28% premium. This monumental proposal aims to forge a payments powerhouse. It marries Stripe's deep merchant r... |
| 20.07.2026 | How PayPal went from Wall Street favorite to unwilling merger target | July 20 : Five years ago PayPal was a Wall Street favorite and a leader in digital payments. Since then the stock has plunged, Apple Pay dominates payment services in the U.S. and PayPal is facing a takeover bid it does not like. What happe... |
| 20.07.2026 | PayPal Board Rejects $53B Stripe-Advent Offer: Stablecoin Race Explains Why the Next Move Matters | By Scott McCain
Published: Jul 20 2026, 6:55 AM EDT
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| 20.07.2026 | Natural Raises $30M to Build Payments Infrastructure for AI Agents | Natural Raises $30M To Expand AI Payments Infrastructure
Natural has raised $30 million in Series A funding to accelerate the development of payments infrastructure purpose-built for AI agents. The round was led by Forerunner, with continue... |
| 19.07.2026 | FNB, Absa and Nedbank bet on money for machines | Buried in the partner list of a new consortium building a dollar currency for the machine economy – backed by Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and BlackRock – are three familiar names: FNB, Absa and Nedbank.
South Africa’s banks have quietly joined... |
| 18.07.2026 | Chai Discovery Secures $400M, Propelling AI-Driven Molecular Design | Chai Discovery secured a $400 million Series C funding round. This elevates its valuation to $3.8 billion. The capital injection accelerates its AI-driven molecular design platform. Chai transforms drug discovery, shifting from trial-and-er... |
| 17.07.2026 | Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe Back Open Standard Letting AI Agents Pay Autonomously | By Joshua Mitchell
Published: Jul 17 2026, 7:48 AM EDT
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| 17.07.2026 | Voksha Brings Multilingual AI Receptionist to Enterprise After 1 Million Calls, Publishes Data Showing 1 in 3 Calls Are Not in English | One platform answers callers in English, Spanish, French, Chinese and more, backed by original research from a million real calls and a market where 76% of consumers prefer to buy in their own language.
LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESS Newswire / J... |
| 16.07.2026 | CNBC Daily Open: Big Tech rally drowns out Iran war fears — Buffett urges caution | The U.S. launched fresh strikes and reimposed a naval blockade on Iran, as analysts warn of “forever war” risk.
Big Tech gains and the encouraging inflation data pushed the major averages higher.
Warren Buffett cautioned values are scarce “... |
| 15.07.2026 | Stripe and Advent offer $53 billion to acquire PayPal in landmark payments deal | Stripe is making its biggest move yet to reshape the payments industry. The fintech giant, together with private equity firm Advent International, has submitted an offer to acquire PayPal for more than $53 billion, according to Reuters. If ... |
| 15.07.2026 | Stripe and Advent Make $53 Billion Bid for PayPal’s 439 Million Accounts | By Richard L. Wells
Published: Jul 15 2026, 2:47 PM EDT
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| 15.07.2026 | Why PayPal stock is rocketing today |
PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) stock is soaring in premarket trading on July 15 after reports revealed that payments company Stripe and private equity giant Advent International have submitted a joint proposal to acquire the fintech firm in a deal ... |
| 15.07.2026 | Top Tech News Today, July 15, 2026: Apple, ASML, IBM, Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia, OpenAI, Stripe, PayPal & More | It’s Wednesday, July 15, 2026, and the tech industry is at an inflection point. Frontier AI models are no longer advancing in a vacuum — they’re now navigating direct government oversight, while hyperscale data center ambitions are collidin... |
| 15.07.2026 | PayPal is working with Goldman, Evercore as suitors circle | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Ryan Gould, Vinicy Chan and Paige Smith, Bloomberg News
PayPal Holdings Inc. has been working with advisers to review strategic options, people familiar with the matter said, as Stripe Inc. and ... |
| 15.07.2026 | Cover Genius Raises USD $100M in Funding | Cover Genius, a NYC-based company developing infrastructure for embedded protection, raised USD 100M in funding, at $1.9M valuation.
Backers included Vista Credit Partners, a subsidiary of Vista Equity Partners and strategic financing partn... |
| 15.07.2026 | PayPal stock surges 15% on report of a $53 billion takeover offer from Stripe and Advent | PayPal shares jumped about 15% on Wednesday following a report that Stripe and the private equity firm Advent International had made a joint offer to buy the payments giant.
The $60.50-per-share bid values PayPal at more than $53 billion an... |
| 14.07.2026 | Circle's Trust Bank Charter Signals New Era in Digital Finance Infrastructure | Circle achieved a landmark approval. The OCC granted it a national trust bank charter. This empowers Circle to directly manage its vast USDC stablecoin reserves. It removes reliance on external banks. This federal oversight simplifies opera... |
| 14.07.2026 | Chai Discovery Raises $400M to Accelerate AI-Driven Molecular Design Platform | What You Should Know
Structural biology and AI drug design pioneer Chai Discovery has announced a $400M Series C funding round, valuing the company at $3.8 billion just two years after its 2024 founding.
The heavily oversubscribed round was... |
| 13.07.2026 | Paradigm Unveils $1.2 Billion Fund, Broadens Focus Beyond Crypto to AI and Robotics | Paradigm secured $1.2 billion for its latest venture fund. The firm strategically expands beyond crypto. New investments target artificial intelligence, robotics, and other frontier technologies. Paradigm maintains strong commitment to its ... |
| 13.07.2026 | Daily Stock Market Live
Stocks end higher buoyed by light inflation data, bounce in chip stocks | The S&P 500 closed higher on Tuesday, boosted by semiconductor stocks, after June inflation data came in weaker than expected.
The broad market index finished up 0.38% at 7,543.59, while the Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.9% to end the day... |
| 12.07.2026 | AIsa Raises $6.5 Million To Build The Transaction Network For AI Agents | AIsa, a San Francisco–based company building what it describes as the transaction network for the AI agent economy, has raised $6.5 million in total funding to date, including a new seed round co-led by Alibaba and Tribe Capital, with parti... |
| 10.07.2026 | FriendsGroove Launches: The Social Network for Music Where Fans Get a Permanent Number for Finding Bands First | New platform gives every fan a permanent, numbered spot in an artist's community - and pays artists 95% of every tip. No ads, no algorithm, and only 1,000 Genesis founding memberships will ever exist.
NEWTON, NJ / ACCESS Newswire / July 10,... |
| 10.07.2026 | Timetics AI Launches AI Scheduling Platform That Turns Bookings Into Sales – A Calendly Alternative | an AI scheduling platform developed by Arraytics, today announced the general availability of Timetics AI 2.0, introducing a sales-first alternative to traditional scheduling tools like Calendly and Cal.com. The platform combines an AI sche... |
| 10.07.2026 | Circle gets green light to operate as a trust bank, strengthening its position in the stablecoin race | Circle has cleared a major regulatory hurdle that could reshape its role in digital finance. The company said Friday it received approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to operate as a national trust bank, giv... |
| 10.07.2026 | Stablecoin issuer Circle just got the greenlight to operate as a bank. The shares are up 5% | Stablecoin issuer Circle surged after the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted it approval to operate as a trust bank.
The approval gives the company the ability to directly manage reserves for its regulated stablecoins, p... |
| 09.07.2026 | Legal AI Pioneer Norm Ai Achieves $1.2 Billion Valuation Amid Funding Surge | Norm Ai, a rapidly ascending legal AI startup, secured $120 million in Series C funding. This propelled its valuation to $1.2 billion, granting it coveted unicorn status. The company's unique "agentic law" approach embeds legal re... |
| 09.07.2026 | Sourcetable Humiliates Microsoft Copilot and Google Sheets in New AI Benchmark | There’s a quiet massacre happening in the world of spreadsheets, and almost nobody’s covering it. That changes today.
the AI-powered spreadsheet platform gunning to make Excel look like a fax machine, just published the results of its self-... |
| 08.07.2026 | ActiveCampaign Launches Google Ads Connector for Active Intelligence, Bringing AI-Guided Campaign Creation and Reporting to Marketers | ActiveCampaign, a leading autonomous marketing platform, announced the launch of its Google Ads connector for Active Intelligence, its AI engine that powers end-to-end marketing. The connector enables marketers and business owners to connec... |
| 08.07.2026 | AIsa Raises $6.5M, Co-Led by Alibaba and Tribe Capital, to Build the Transaction Network for AI Agents | the transaction network for the AI agent economy, today announced it has raised US$6.5 million in total funding to date, including a new seed round, co-led by Alibaba and Tribe Capital, with participation from Draper Associates, Sumitomo Co... |
| 08.07.2026 | Американский венчурный фонд Paradigm привлек $1,2 млрд для инвестиций в искусственный интеллект | Американская венчурная компания Paradigm, специализирующаяся на инвестициях в криптовалютные стартапы, привлекла новый фонд объемом $1,2 млрд для инвестиций не только в блокчейн-проекты, но и в компании, работающие в сфере искусственного ин... |
| 07.07.2026 | Американский ИИ-стартап для юридических услуг Norm привлек $120 млн при оценке $1,2 млрд | Американский стартап Norm AI, разрабатывающий решения на основе искусственного интеллекта для юридической отрасли, привлек $120 млн в новом инвестиционном раунде. В результате сделки стоимость компании достигла $1,2 млрд, что вывело ее в чи... |
| 05.07.2026 | Промпт против скилла: прогнал библиотеку промптов Anthropic и скилл grill-me | Мне нужно было спарсить собственные статьи с Хабра. Не для красоты — для анализа: я веду полевой журнал метрик по каждой публикации, и руками сводить рейтинги, закладки и комментарии в таблицу надоело. Задача из тех, что откладываются месяц... |
