Nvidia agrees to a licensing deal with Groq; CEO Jonathan Ross and other top executives will join Nvidia; Groq says it will continue operating independently
anybody who knows anything about AI chips knows groq's first gen chips aren't competitive but maybe their upcoming chips might have been able to threaten nvidia? @josephjacks_ : Overly simplistic take...
Stripe agrees to acquire Metronome, which offers APIs to help SaaS companies charge customers based on usage and has raised $128M in total funding
compounded by the rise of AI. That shift accelerated even more than I expected. Metronome became the monetization infrastructure Jeff Weinstein / @jeff_weinstein : Welcome @getmetronome to @stripe! Us...
OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated, which is building an AI-powered user interface for macOS and raised $6.5M from Sam Altman and others
a natural language interface for Mac. https://openai.com/... Kyle Russell / @kylebrussell : meanwhile if Apple manages to transform iOS with local agents it will be on the back of Shortcuts LinkedIn: ...
Stripe launches Open Issuance, a Bridge-powered platform that lets companies create its own stablecoins, used by crypto wallet Phantom to issue its CASH token
a new stablecoin created with stripe + bridge w/ baked in developer rewards, stripe merchant support, and new phantom $ features, launching on solana. [video] Ryan Rasmussen / @rasterlyrock : Stripe w...
OpenAI rolls out Instant Checkout to let users make single-item purchases directly in ChatGPT, starting with US Etsy sellers, and plans to add Shopify merchants
the chatbot will start letting its 700,000,000 users shop directly from their chats Jibin Joseph / PCMag : ChatGPT Now Lets You Make Purchases Without Leaving the App Nishit Singh Raghuwanshi / Times ...
Stripe reintegrates crypto payments in the US, letting users pay merchants in USDC or USDP on Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon, after disabling the feature in 2018
Accept stablecoin payments that settle as fiat in your Stripe balance. Siamak Masnavi / CryptoGlobe : Stripe Now Allows Business to Easily Accept USDC Payments on Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon Coinped...
Robotics startup Figure AI confirms raising $675M at a $2.6B valuation and is partnering with OpenAI to “develop next-generation AI models for humanoid robots”
we're collaborating with @Figure_robot to expand our multimodal models to robotic perception, reasoning, and interaction. https://www.prnewswire.com/... Adam Cochran / @adamscochran : ChatGPT with arm...
Revolut launches tools for its business clients to accept payments online, will take a 1.3% cut for UK and EU card transactions and 2.8% in other regions
banking-as-a-service — manifests the breadth of the company's ambition. https://stratechery.com/... Jeff Weinstein / @jeff_weinstein : It's (economic) infrastructure week, again, here at @stripe! - Tu...
Stripe launches Treasury to let its customers offer checking accounts and other business-banking services; Shopify will offer the services from early next year
Hello! Today: A new breed of startups is trying to help other startups manage their finances better. Stripe : Stripe launches Stripe Treasury in major expansion of financial services offering for pla...