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Canva cofounder and COO Cliff Obrecht in conversation with John Collison

A conversation with Replit's President and Head of AI Michele Catasta

Tech analyst Philipp Klöckner in conversation with Conor McNamara

A conversation with Alan cofounder and CTO Charles Gorintin

Barney Hussey-Yeo in conversation with John Collison

10 Years of Stripe France: How enterprises pivot in the age of AI

From Africa to the Andes: Building businesses without borders

10 Years of Stripe France: The tech renaissance and what’s next

Stripe Sessions 2026 | Keynote

Sam Altman in conversation with Patrick Collison
The rapid acceleration of AI development, particularly in coding models, marks a shift toward agents capable of automating complex, multi-step workflows. This transition fundamentally alters human productivity by removing the drudgery of routine digital tasks. OpenAI prioritizes building intelligence as a universal, lo...

Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross in conversation with John and Patrick Collison
The current era marks the early, human-intensive phase of the AI singularity, characterized by rapid model improvements that will eventually accelerate through automated self-improvement. While the economic impact remains uncertain, AI functions as a potential disinflationary force, much like China’s integration into t...

Stripe Sessions 2026 | Indexing the economy

A conversation with Manus AI's cofounder and CPO Tao Zhang
Manus represents a paradigm shift in artificial intelligence by moving beyond conversational chatbots to autonomous agents capable of executing complex tasks. By providing AI with a virtual machine—a "hand" to complement its "brain"—the platform enables users to perform actions like coding, browsing, and file managemen...

Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross in conversation with John and Patrick Collison
The current phase of the AI singularity remains in an early, slow-moving period defined by human-in-the-loop bottlenecks at research labs. Accelerating progress requires removing these human constraints to enable autonomous systems capable of continuous, self-improving workflows. AI agents, such as those capable of rev...

Stripe Sessions 2026 keynote in 12 minutes
Stripe is positioning its financial infrastructure as the backbone of the "agentic era," where autonomous AI agents act as primary economic participants. Central to this shift is the Agentic Commerce Suite, which includes Stripe Projects for programmatic service provisioning and the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) to f...

Stripe Sessions 2026 | Indexing the economy
The global economy is undergoing a structural re-platforming driven by AI, characterized by a surge in business dynamism and the rise of agentic commerce. Solopreneurship is scaling rapidly, with new businesses increasingly launching as global entities from day one. As AI agents begin to execute autonomous purchasing d...

Sam Altman in conversation with Patrick Collison
AI development has reached a critical inflection point, characterized by rapid advancements in reasoning capabilities and the widespread integration of automated agents into daily workflows. Coding models have emerged as a primary catalyst, enabling significant productivity gains by automating repetitive tasks and allo...

Stripe Sessions 2026 | Developer keynote
AI agents are fundamentally reshaping developer experience, with 91% of Stripe engineers now utilizing AI tools and a 140% surge in AI-assisted pull requests. To optimize this shift, Stripe provides agents with curated context through raw markdown documentation and structured blueprints, ensuring they avoid outdated in...

Stripe Sessions 2026 | Keynote
The agentic era has fundamentally transformed the digital economy, positioning autonomous AI agents as primary economic actors capable of building, buying, and selling software. Stripe is re-platforming its infrastructure to support this shift, introducing tools like Stripe Projects for autonomous deployment and the Ma...
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