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🧠 Stripe's $53bn PayPal Gamble

The biggest payments takeover ever attempted might be Stripe's biggest distraction. Plus: every US stock becomes a token in October, and GPUs get a futures market.

🧠 Finance Agents and the Optimization Economy

Jul 16, 2026

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🧠 Finance Agents and the Optimization Economy

The most valuable consumer in America already shops through an AI chat. But they’ve drawn a line at paying.

Jul 12, 2026

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16 min read

🧠 Getting a charter was the easy part

Circle's final approval drops. Klarna files in Utah, Sony's crypto bank wins conditional OCC approval, and four megabanks circle Fiserv's STAR network. Plus Kalshi loses in the SDNY and Ramp gives AI agents cards.

Jul 9, 2026

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9 min read

🤖 Will AI make dotcom look like a blip?

The biggest capital boom ever measured has no unsold inventory. What that means for your dollars and your energy

Jul 5, 2026

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8 min read

🧠 Where Robinhood's 7% yield comes from

Plus: Plaid flirts with an IPO, Erebor 4x's deposits in a quarter, and Meta tried to buy Kalshi

Jul 2, 2026

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11 min read

🧠 The Coin Nobody Owns

140 companies just agreed to share a stablecoin. OpenUSD is a play for the trillions of dollars that never came onchain.

Simon Taylor

🧠 Prediction Markets: A Messy Path to Mainstream

Jun 28, 2026

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9 min read

🧠 Prediction Markets: A Messy Path to Mainstream

Meta enters prediction markets; Polymarket's ad scandal; and Anthropic puts Claude in your Slack.

Simon Taylor

Jun 24, 2026

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9 min read

🤖 Who holds AI’s off switch?

One Friday night in June, Anthropic locked its own engineers out of its best model.

Simon Taylor

Jun 21, 2026

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8 min read

🧠 Stablecoin Issuer KYC Rules Proposed

Plus: Coinbase's SEC-registered AI investment advisor, and Karta raises $15m for an international travelers' credit card (but don't stay stablecoins)

Simon Taylor

🧠 Why Zelle wants to launch a stablecoin

Jun 18, 2026

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9 min read

🧠 Why Zelle wants to launch a stablecoin

The Clearing House reached for tokenized deposits, Zelle went stablecoin, and why stablecoins are the rail above the rails.

Simon Taylor

Jun 14, 2026

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14 min read

🧠 The Benchmark Will Eat Finance

AI will transform whatever we can measure first. And the first measures are here. Plus; Visa & Mastercard finally settle swipe fees lawsuit & Kalshi requires job disclosures.

Simon Taylor

REPORT: The Enterprise AI Operating Model Playbook.

Jun 11, 2026

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3 min read

REPORT: The Enterprise AI Operating Model Playbook.

Why 99% AI adoption still produces almost no productivity, and what Anthropic, Ramp, and the 1% do differently.

Simon Taylor

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🧠 Stripe's $53bn PayPal Gamble

🧠 Finance Agents and the Optimization Economy

🧠 Getting a charter was the easy part

🤖 Will AI make dotcom look like a blip?

🧠 Where Robinhood's 7% yield comes from

🧠 The Coin Nobody Owns

🧠 Prediction Markets: A Messy Path to Mainstream

🤖 Who holds AI’s off switch?

🧠 Stablecoin Issuer KYC Rules Proposed

🧠 Why Zelle wants to launch a stablecoin

🧠 The Benchmark Will Eat Finance

REPORT: The Enterprise AI Operating Model Playbook.

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