Stripe Treasury: 2% cashback, 160 countries
Stripe Treasury allows users to hold funds in multiple currencies, earn 2% cashback, and pay anyone in 160 countries with just an email address.
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Cursor Runs Claude Better Than Claude Code | Grok 4.3 Undercuts OpenAI and Anthropic | GitHub Copilot Ends Flat Pricing | Stripe Becomes the AI Bank | Elon's $7.5T Pay Package | EP11
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May 1, 2026
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Stripe Treasury: The AI-Native Bank Account
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Stripe Treasury: The Financial Wallet for AI Agents
Stripe Treasury is now an AI-native bank: hold multi-currency balances, pay anyone in 160 countries by email, earn 2% cashback — and connect it all to your AI agents via the Stripe MCP. Stripe already knows your revenue trajectory better than you do.
OpenAI and Anthropic Face a Hard Compute Ceiling
OpenAI and Anthropic face fierce competition and a hard compute ceiling — a 10x growth from their current valuations would require consuming all the world's energy. SpaceX's market is literally off-planet. All three hosts picked SpaceX when asked to choose one investment.
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