More than 6,000 hospitality executives and operators gathered in San Antonio last week for the HITEC conference. The big topic: whether the industry’s AI investment is actually working. Across four days and over 50 meetings, four trends stood out.

We analyzed spending patterns across the 250 million customers paying with Link. We found that Link customers are spending more on AI than they were three months prior, investing heavily in platforms that let them build with AI.

Our data shows that agents are now fully capable of independently writing code and integrating with APIs like Stripe’s. And yet, many of the steps adjacent to writing code are still too hard for agents to do on their own. We’re expanding Stripe Projects to solve this.

At Sessions 2026, Stripe unveiled dozens of products and capabilities to help businesses turn global demand into revenue. See how to go global faster with localized checkout and Adaptive Pricing, smarter fraud tools, multicurrency treasury support, and automated tax compliance.

Explore how AI agents are transforming commerce at Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Next roadshow. Reserve your spot in Seattle.

Join senior risk and payments leaders in Seattle to explore how AI is reshaping fraud strategy. Seats are limited.

We moved quickly to help Stripe businesses take advantage of DCAP and capture interchange savings while protecting authorization rates. Here’s what we did.

In 2025, solo founders in the top decile generated 61 times the revenue of the median solo founder in their first six months. We analyzed the data to understand what drives that gap.

Radar now blocks high-risk transactions across all supported payment methods; defends against new fraud types like multi-account abuse and pay-as-you-go abuse, regardless of which payment processor you use; and gives platforms new tools to evaluate and mitigate merchant risk on and off Stripe.

AI is forcing platforms to expand beyond pure software. See how vertical SaaS platforms are using payments, financial services, and agentic commerce to build more durable businesses.