Stripe News & Updates
Last updated September 7, 2026
The singularity has arrived, according to Stripe, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk
Stripe president Will Gaybrick says checkout pages will go away once AI agents are the ones doing the buying for shoppers
Stripe agrees to acquire AI model gateway OpenRouter to help businesses route requests across 400 models from 80 providers
Stripe would pay about 70 times revenue for OpenRouter at close to $10B, well above the multiples in other recent AI deals
Stripe launches its own subscriptions app on the Shopify App Store, competing with Recharge, Loop, and Shopify’s native tool
Stripe pulls in $3.2B of free cash flow on AI payment volume, funding an acquisition run that now targets PayPal
Stripe and Advent International offer $53B to acquire PayPal, but PayPal will likely reject the offer (as they should)
Stripe and Advent offer more than $53B to buy PayPal at $60.50 a share, a 28% premium that sends its stock up nearly 17%
Open Standard launches Open USD, a fee-free stablecoin backed by 140-plus firms including Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, and Shopify
Zip expands its Stripe partnership to bring BNPL into AI-agent checkout through Stripe’s Shared Payment Tokens
Affirm and Stripe expand partnership to bring pay-over-time to Stripe’s UK merchants for the first time
Stripe partners with Google to bring agentic checkout to Gemini and opens Link wallet to AI agents
AWS launches Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments in preview, built with Coinbase and Stripe to let AI agents transact autonomously
Stripe announces 288 new products & features at Stripe Sessions
Shopify seeks regulatory approvals to act as a money transmitter and potentially bypass Stripe and PayPal
Stripe introduces Link, a consumer digital wallet that lets autonomous AI agents pay on users’ behalf
Stripe expands Agentic Commerce Suite to Google’s AI Mode and Gemini app among 288 product announcements
Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Stripe Join The Universal Commerce Protocol Tech Council
Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Stripe joined the Universal Commerce Protocol Tech Council for agentic commerce standards
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