AI hotel discovery and purchase by Perplexity (proudly powered by Stripe)

This shouldn't exist yet. I've tested Perplexity 's travel search and booking and... No scrolling 847 hotels and photos trying to spot a decent gym, I asked: "Find me a hotel in Amsterdam with a serious gym, walkable to conference venues, under €300/night" Result:

Perplexity’s new travel search is wild. Instead of scrolling 847 hotels, just ask: "Find 4/5 star boutique hotels in Paris, breakfast, airport shuttle, great solo traveler reviews etc." 30 sec later: perfect match! No fake reviews. No bad photos. It even books via Stripe! 🤯

It's hard to definitively attribute the causality, but it seems that AI is starting to influence Stripe's macro figures: payment volume from customers that signed up for Stripe in 2025 is tracking way ahead of prior years. (And ahead of even 2020, when the lockdowns triggered a

1/ Today, we're proud to announce that Stripe is acquiring Privy. We couldn’t be more excited. Privy will continue as an independent product – but now we’ll move faster, ship more, and serve you even better, so you can stay focused on your users.

Crypto wallets are going to play an increasingly important role in the growth of the internet economy. Delighted to welcome Privy to Stripe to make it easier for developers to build the next wave of onchain infrastructure.

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This work will also allow us to offer buyer incentives like 1% cash back in the future. And it’s all transparent to merchants, they will simply get normal local currency payouts the same as usual (unless you choose to keep it as USDC!). Stripe helped us make this totally seamless

millions of businesses on @shopify will soon be able to accept USDC—with help from Stripe and @stablecoin stablecoins are quietly and undramatically being woven into the fabric of everyday commerce more here -->

Seulement 22 licornes en 🇫🇷... mais 46 licornes aux 🇺🇸 fondées par des entrepreneurs venus de France. On peut continuer la politique de la terre brûlée pour que ça devienne encore plus insignifiant.

One of the best parts of Stripe is working with the world's most interesting businesses. Taking advantage of this, we're launching a podcast where we host founders and leaders for a cheeky pint in our hastily-constructed office pub. Coming soon: episodes with Greg Brockman, Meta’s Susan

Growing the G

What will agentic commerce mean for the world? Emily covers this, Stripe's new foundation model, and more.

Anthropic is one of the fastest-growing businesses of all time. Dario Amodei and I chatted about flying past $5b in ARR, Anthropic's focus on B2B, payback economics of individual models, talent wars, AI market structure, and lots more. And you all said that you all want longer

NEW at WORKS IN PROGRESS ☢️⚡️🔋 France built forty nuclear reactors in ten years across the 1970s and 1980s, for a fraction of today's prices. For the first time in English, we tell the story of how they did it — and what the rest of the world needs to learn to do the same.

Introducing @Tempo. At Stripe, we care about high-throughput, low-latency payments use cases. As the use of stablecoins (and crypto more broadly) grows across Stripe, Bridge, and Privy, we found that existing blockchains are not optimized for them. For example, it's valuable

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We have three cool announcements today: (1) OpenAI is launching commerce in ChatGPT. Their new Instant Checkout is powered by Stripe. (2) We're releasing the Agentic Commerce Protocol, codeveloped by Stripe and OpenAI. (3) Stripe is launching an API for agentic payments,

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Both the Left and Right in France have lost their minds.