Stripe

Stripe's reported seven-billion-dollar acquisition of OpenRouter suggests that the most valuable asset in the modern technology sector is no longer intelligence, but the metaphors we use to describe it.

As Stripe and Advent enter deep negotiations to acquire PayPal for fifty-three billion dollars, we examine the ultimate corporate exit strategy: simply ceasing to exist.

Stripe introduces a mechanism for AI companies to treat silicon-based thought as a commodity, complete with the traditional retail markup.

In a move that suggests the fintech industry has finally run out of new ideas and has begun the polite process of eating itself, Stripe is reportedly eyeing a deal to acquire its own ancestor, PayPal.