Stripe builds out the economic infrastructure for AI with 288 launches

Stripe has announced 288 new products and features at Stripe Sessions, its annual customer conference, as the company builds the economic infrastructure for AI. That means accelerating AI companies' growth, helping enterprises adapt to AI, preventing fraudsters from stealing tokens, and empowering agents as economic actors. "AI is the biggest platform shift for the economy since the internet, and in the not-too-distant future agents will account for most transactions online. The enterprises and startups behind this wave are overwhelmingly building on Stripe. No matter what sector you're in, the AI transformation requires new economic infrastructure, primitives, and abstractions. That's the animating theme behind the 288 products and features we announced today," said Patrick Collison, CEO and cofounder of Stripe. The Agentic Commerce Suite now supports Google Last year, Stripe launched the Agentic Commerce Suite, a single integration that lets businesses sell their products inside AI apps. Kate Spade, Best Buy, and Coach are among the businesses already building with the Agentic Commerce Suite. Today, Stripe announced a partnership with Google that will allow businesses to sell to consumers inside AI Mode and the Gemini app. Businesses like Quince, Fanatics, and JD Sports are coming soon. This follows similar partnership announcements with OpenAI, Microsoft, and Meta. Stripe is also bringing the Agentic Commerce Suite to platforms, so businesses on Wix, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, and more can easily sell to customers inside AI apps. Stripe launches Link wallets for agents Link is a consumer wallet with over 250 million users globally, and now it's ready for agents too. Starting today, people can enable their agents to make payments with Link on their behalf. For example, with Openclaw, your agent could monitor table availability at a popular restaurant and pay a deposit if needed. Your real payment details are never exposed to the agent—a one-time-use card is issued per task, and you approve each payment. "If AI can solve Nobel level physics problems but can't buy a domain, something's gone wrong. Our mantra: empower agents. We're excited for all the growth opportunities this will unlock for businesses," said Will Gaybrick, Stripe's president of product and business. Streaming payments for AI business models In the last year, with dramatically heavier AI usage, a new problem has emerged for businesses that offer AI products: how to charge for tokens. Agents burn through tokens at machine speed, running up real costs for businesses before payment is collected. The best approach would be a true pay-as-you-go model: collecting a payment from a customer for each token, as it's used, in real time. But the amounts are too small and the usage is too fast—existing systems aren't capable of processing minute sums every few milliseconds. For that, businesses would need both precise tracking (knowing instantly when and where tokens are used) and precise settlement (the ability to collect frequent micropayments). To solve this, today Stripe introduced streaming payments, an AI-native business model, which combines precise tracking from Metronome with stablecoin micropayments on the Tempo blockchain. For the first time ever, businesses can get paid for every token, exactly at the moment it's used. As tokens become increasingly fungible with money, streaming payments in real time is an important part of Stripe's economic infrastructure for AI. Stripe expands fraud protection to cover token theft Fraudsters are no longer just stealing money, they're stealing tokens. They create millions of fake accounts to drain sign-up credits, burn inference costs by abusing free trials, and rack up usage bills they never intend to pay. Across AI services running on Stripe, one in six attempted sign-ups is made by a bad actor, and free trial abuse has more than doubled in the past six months. Today, Stripe expanded Radar to defend against token theft. Ra...

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