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Green and pleasant views, digital dreams and a White Stripe sculpts – the week in art | Art and design

Green and pleasant views, digital dreams and a White Stripe sculpts – the week in art | Art and design

Published by Sam Flores

Exhibition of the week British Landscapes: A Sense of PlaceThe romance and mystery of Britain’s green and pleasant land, as captured by artists from Gainsborough to Hepworth. Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, from 30 May to 1 November Also showing Lisa IvoryCreepy gothic paintings with skeletons and nudes in shadowy landscapes that evoke the history of art, darkly. Gramercy Park Studios, London, until 26 June Jack WhiteIs the Detroit-born musician and, er, upholsterer also a good artist? Damien Hirst’s gallery says yes. Newport Street Gallery, London, until 13 September Delaine Le BasMystical new artworks including pieces made in glass at Venice’s Murano workshops. Maureen Paley Gallery, London, from 4 June Wendy McMurdoPortraits that play on the border between reality and digital fantasy in a 30-year survey of this Scottish artist’s work. Portrait, Edinburgh, from 30 May to 25 October Image of the week Photograph: © Steven Shearer Courtesy the artist, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, and David Zwirner Reclusive Canadian painter Steven Shearer usually prefers his work – such as Tokerman shown here – to do the talking. …

Once close enough for an acquisition, Stripe and Airwallex are now going after each other

Once close enough for an acquisition, Stripe and Airwallex are now going after each other

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Jack Zhang was 34 years old, three and a half years into running a startup, and sitting across from one of the most powerful investors in Silicon Valley. Michael Moritz of Sequoia had invited him to his home — a place with, Zhang recalls, a couple of floors and a view straight to the Golden Gate Bridge — to make the case for selling. Stripe wanted to buy Airwallex for $1.2 billion. At the time, the Melbourne company had around $2 million in annualized revenue. The math was almost pretty irresistable: a revenue multiple somewhere near 600 times. Patrick Collison, Moritz argued, was a generational founder. The deal would “compound” into something extraordinary. Zhang listened. He walked around San Francisco for two weeks, restless, unable to think straight. At one point, he said yes. Then he flew nearly 8,000 miles back home. “I really went deep on what motivates me to build Airwallex,” he said early this week, speaking to this editor from overseas. “I was three and a half years into the business. The …

Setup OpenClaw for GA4 & Stripe Analytics for Easy Business Insights

Setup OpenClaw for GA4 & Stripe Analytics for Easy Business Insights

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OpenClaw is designed to help businesses streamline operations through automation, data integration and actionable insights. In this beginner-friendly guide, Corbin walks through the essentials of getting started with OpenClaw, including how to use Hostinger’s one-click deployment feature to set up the platform quickly and securely. This approach eliminates the need for complex configurations, making it accessible even for those without technical expertise. With pre-configured AI models like ChatGPT and Claude included, you can immediately begin using artificial intelligence to enhance your workflows. Explore how OpenClaw’s integrations with platforms like Google Analytics and Stripe can provide a unified view of your business performance, from tracking user engagement to monitoring revenue trends. You’ll also gain insight into creating customizable dashboards that visualize key metrics, helping you make data-driven decisions with clarity. Whether you’re looking to automate repetitive tasks, improve customer communication, or optimize your strategies, this guide offers practical steps to unlock OpenClaw’s potential for your business. Quick & Effortless Deployment TL;DR Key Takeaways : OpenClaw simplifies deployment with Hostinger’s one-click functionality, allowing quick setup without advanced …

Irish lawmaker urges Stripe to flout US sanctions on UN investigator Albanese – POLITICO

Irish lawmaker urges Stripe to flout US sanctions on UN investigator Albanese – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

Sanctions imposed on Albanese by the Trump administration, after she accused governments and corporations of complicity in genocide in Gaza, cut her and her family off from U.S. banking, travel and tech — including transactions by American intermediaries like Stripe. Israel’s government has strongly denied committing genocide. “I understand as a dual headquartered company, in Dublin and San Francisco, you must follow sanctions imposed by Trump in the U.S.,” Andrews said in an X post. But Albanese is “simply doing her job, standing for international humanitarian law and the UN Charter,” he added. Stripe did not respond to a request for comment. Source link

Stripe wants to turn your AI costs into a profit center

Stripe wants to turn your AI costs into a profit center

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Stripe on Monday released a preview of a new feature that could help AI startups (and other companies) solve the problem of passing through the underlying costs of AI model usage to their customers. Stripe’s feature, however, goes even further than just passing through the costs of the tokens. It allows startups to charge a markup percentage on token usage. So a company can, for instance, charge an automatic 30% above the cost of the tokens that the startup will pay the model maker. As Stripe described it, “Say you’re building an AI app: you want a consistent 30% margin over raw LLM token costs across providers. Billing automates the process.” The billing feature lets the startup pick the AI models it uses. It tracks the API prices of those models. It then records the customers’ token usage and applies the profit-margin markup automatically. As we’ve previously reported, there are a variety of ways that AI startups are charging for their wares. Many of them charge tiered monthly subscriptions that have usage-rate caps; once those …

Stripe, PayPal Ventures bet on India’s Xflow to fix cross-border B2B payments

Stripe, PayPal Ventures bet on India’s Xflow to fix cross-border B2B payments

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Xflow, an Indian fintech startup, has secured backing from both Stripe and PayPal Ventures in a $16.6 million funding round. The investment comes as the company works to carve out a position in cross-border B2B payments, a market still dominated by banks and manual processes. The Series A round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from existing investors Square Peg, Stripe, Lightspeed, and Moore Capital, while PayPal Ventures joined as a new backer. The all-equity round values the Bengaluru-based startup at $85 million post-investment and brings its total funding to more than $32 million to date. Despite rapid digitization in domestic payments, cross-border B2B transfers for Indian exporters remain heavily reliant on banks, often with limited visibility into fees, settlement timelines, and the final amount received in rupees. The friction is particularly acute for larger exporters moving millions of dollars into India to fund salaries and local operations, creating an opening for fintech infrastructure players such as Xflow that promise greater transparency and speed in international money movement. Founded in 2021, Xflow provides cross-border …

Coinbase & Stripe Build AI Agents to Pay and Buy Online

Coinbase & Stripe Build AI Agents to Pay and Buy Online

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Coinbase, Stripe, and Cloudflare are leading the charge in building the “agent web,” a digital ecosystem designed for autonomous AI agents to operate independently. As explained by Nate Jones, this emerging framework shifts the focus from human-centric interactions to machine-to-machine communication, allowing AI agents to transact, execute tasks, and communicate without human oversight. Key components such as APIs, tokenized payments, and agent-readable content form the backbone of this infrastructure, allowing agents to function as independent economic entities within a secure and structured environment. In this feature, you’ll explore how companies like Coinbase are allowing autonomous cryptocurrency transactions, while Stripe is addressing fraud risks in agent-driven payments. You’ll also learn about Cloudflare’s efforts to optimize websites for AI agents and the broader implications of these advancements for the digital economy. By understanding these developments, you can better grasp the opportunities and challenges posed by this shift, from unlocking new workflows to addressing critical concerns around security and trust. The Rise of Agent Web TL;DR Key Takeaways : The “agent web” is a new digital ecosystem designed …

Stripe alumni raise €30M Series A for Duna, backed by Stripe and Adyen execs

Stripe alumni raise €30M Series A for Duna, backed by Stripe and Adyen execs

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Anthropic and OpenAI may be rivals, but their presidents Daniela Amodei and Gregory Brockman have one thing in common: they are both Stripe alumni. With former employees who went on to create dozens of startups, the fintech company has become one of the most prolific “founder factories” — and the money is following. The latest example: business identity verification startup Duna, which just raised a €30 million Series A to become the best-funded European member of the so-called “Stripe mafia.” The funding round was led by Alphabet’s growth fund CapitalG, which has also backed Stripe since co-leading its Series D in 2016. Based in Germany and the Netherlands, Duna was co-founded by Stripe alumni Duco van Lanschot and David Schreiber. With customers including Plaid, the startup helps fintech companies onboard business customers more efficiently, reducing the typical churn associated with corporate ID checks and other fraud prevention measures. Stripe is not a customer of Duna, van Lanschot said, but its executives were well placed to understand the opportunity that the startup is seizing, which is …

Physical Intelligence, Stripe veteran Lachy Groom’s latest bet, is building Silicon Valley’s buzziest robot brains

Physical Intelligence, Stripe veteran Lachy Groom’s latest bet, is building Silicon Valley’s buzziest robot brains

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From the street, the only indication I’ve found Physical Intelligence’s headquarters in San Francisco is a pi symbol that’s a slightly different color than the rest of the door. When I walk in, I’m immediately confronted with activity. There’s no reception desk, no gleaming logo in fluorescent lights. Inside, the space is a giant concrete box made slightly less austere by a haphazard sprawl of long blonde-wood tables. Some are clearly meant for lunch, dotted with Girl Scout cookie boxes, jars of Vegemite (someone here is Australian), and small wire baskets stuffed with one too many condiments. The rest of the tables tell a different story entirely. Many more of them are laden with monitors, spare robotics parts, tangles of black wire, and fully assembled robotic arms in various states of attempting to master the mundane. During my visit, one arm is folding a pair of black pants, or trying to. It’s not going well. Another is attempting to turn a shirt inside out with the kind of determination that suggests it will eventually succeed, …

I’ve Been Writing About Bengal Stripe Shirts for 15 Years. Here’s Why I Won’t Stop

I’ve Been Writing About Bengal Stripe Shirts for 15 Years. Here’s Why I Won’t Stop

Published by Jenni Sidey

For fifteen years, I’ve written and posted about all of my favorite things in menswear under the same moniker: The Bengal Stripe. And while yes, that decision was partially influenced by my Indian heritage, I also chose it because, in my strong opinion, it is inarguably the most versatile pattern for shirting. Defined by evenly spaced, high-contrast stripes, typically in white and blue, there are few patterns in menswear that do as much quiet work as the Bengal stripe. It’s never too loud, and yet—more than any solid shirt I know—it has this uncanny ability to make an outfit feel intentional. Like you knew what you were doing when you got dressed, even if you didn’t. Put one on with chinos, denim, tailoring, or even just worn-in fatigue pants, and suddenly the whole thing snaps into focus. The appeal is partly visual and partly psychological. A Bengal stripe adds structure without fuss. It reads cleaner than a check, more interesting than a solid, and more grown-up than most prints. It’s a shirt that suggests discipline …