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FedEx Dataworks and Stripe to join forces to reduce friction in global commerce for SMBs. The long-term collaboration will create new solutions powered by supply chain intelligence and financial infrastructure. FedEx Dataworks and Stripe announced a long-term, strategic collaboration to help reduce friction in global commerce by combining signals from the global FedEx network and Stripe financial infrastructure. The first joint solution is planned for launch in early 2027. The two companies plan to leverage their respective platforms to expand access to financing for tens of thousands of small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Additionally, FedEx will begin using Stripe as an option to process payments, adding more than 50 new payment methods to their checkouts through Stripe. Securing capital remains a persistent hurdle for logistics-heavy SMBs. Traditional financing models rely on bank statements and credit scores, often overlooking operational indicators such as shipment activity, inventory movement, and fulfillment performance. By leveraging supply chain intelligence from FedEx Dataworks to help inform financing analysis with Stripe Capital, Dataworks and Stripe are seeking to close that gap and enable FedEx SMB customers to access funding that better reflects how they operate. With these real-time operational signals, Stripe will be better positioned to evaluate, approve, and deploy tailored funding more quickly than traditional lending processes, eliminating the friction for SMBs. "Every day, FedEx helps move more than $2 trillion in global commerce, giving us unique visibility into how businesses operate," said Vishal Talwar, executive vice president, chief digital and information officer of FedEx Corp., and president of FedEx Dataworks. "Our focus at Dataworks is to leverage that intelligence by building solutions that create value for customers and help make supply chains smarter. This collaboration is an important step in laying the foundation for future innovations across the global economy." "FedEx and Stripe power the physical and digital foundations of global trade," said John Collison, co-founder and president of Stripe. "Together, we can turn the operational momentum of a small business, like shipping a thousand packages a week, into access to growth finance through Stripe Capital." FedEx will also use Stripe to expand payment options for FedEx customers globally, adding more than 50 new payment methods to FedEx checkouts. With a wider variety of local payment methods, FedEx can help remove checkout friction so customers can pay how they prefer. This announcement marks the beginning of a strategic, long-term collaboration between FedEx Dataworks and Stripe, laying the foundation for the next generation of business solutions powered by FedEx Dataworks logistics signals and Stripe's financial infrastructure. As the collaboration evolves, both companies expect to scale these capabilities to meet the needs of increasingly complex global enterprise.

Meta joins with group of companies to tame 'chaos' of doing business with AI bots. Advertisements A month after Meta's launch of Muse, the personal agent that quickly turned into a viral sensation, a group of companies is coming together to try to simplify the process of bringing the technology into the business world. Meta, Walmart, Stripe and a handful of other companies are publishing what they're calling a "personal agent protocol." It's an open standard meant to dictate how artificial intelligence agents can interact with businesses. Enterprise AI startup Sierra, co-founded by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor, is part of the group. Taylor, who's also chairman of OpenAI and is leading the initiative, told CNBC in an interview that companies have a lot of work to do to figure out how and when personal agents are able to access information. "Companies will know when it's a personal agent versus an actual person. For a lot of companies there's a risk: you don't want just a random bot that isn't acting on behalf of a person to have access to this service," Taylor said. "It is kind of chaos until such a standard exists." Meta's Muse has become the most popular and buzzy version of personal AI agents since hitting the market in early September. It soared to the top of Apple's App Store and remains there, ahead of ChatGPT. However, Amazon is among the companies that have blocked Meta's agents, citing worries of website scraping. Amazon also blocked Perplexity's AI agent and sued the startup in November, alleging the company took steps to "conceal" its AI agents so they could continue to scrape Amazon's website without approval. Perplexity called the lawsuit a "bully tactic." For the new standard, Taylor compared it with the experience of logging into other websites with Google or Facebook credentials, technology he worked on when he was tech chief at Facebook. He said the practice will help with authentication so that businesses know if they're dealing with a bot, and will provide visibility into what personal agents are actually doing through these websites. David Singleton, vice president of engineering and consumer products at Meta Superintelligence Labs and former technology chief at Stripe, highlighted security. In order for agents to work well, he said, customers need to share credit card and personal information, and the new standard creates some level of visibility and control. "We're defining rails that we hope personal agents and business agents can run over for the future," Singleton said, comparing it to email. "If you think about email, it works great because it is a standard that everyone can use to talk to each other, and we think this is going to be quite similar." Singleton said Muse already has millions of users in the U...S and it's "growing rapidly." "What we're finding is that people love using Muse for all kinds of things, things like signing their kids up for classes, finding and buying the best gifts, scheduling that dentist appointment that you have been putting off for six months," he said. "We need a mechanism to have it go faster and smoother." While OpenAI and Anthropic aren't on board now, Taylor said he expects the AI giants to participate, and indicated he will be "really disappointed" if it's not being used by competitors. "The whole point of this is to be an open standard," Taylor said.

Meta, Walmart and Stripe develop standard for personal AI agents. The protocol aims to help businesses authenticate agents acting for customers and manage their access to personal and payment information. Published Oct 6, 2026, 2:23 PM EDT Meta, Walmart, Stripe and Sierra are developing an open protocol for personal AI agents doing business online, aiming to help companies verify who an agent represents and control its access to customer information. The proposed personal agent protocol would set standards for how personal AI agents interact with businesses. Sierra, an enterprise AI startup co-founded by OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor, is part of the effort, which Taylor is leading. The protocol is intended to help businesses distinguish agents acting for customers from bots operating without a person's authorization. Taylor likened its authentication function to signing in to websites with Google or Facebook credentials, and said it could give companies visibility into what agents do on their services. Discover more Market trend reports Bitcoin price tracker Ethereum investment guide Meta Superintelligence Labs head David Singleton said the standard is designed to give customers more visibility and control as agents use sensitive information, including credit card and personal details. He compared the planned framework to email standards that let different systems communicate. OpenAI and Anthropic have not joined the initiative. Taylor said he expects other AI companies to take part and argued that broad participation is central to making the protocol an open standard. Discover more Trade Crypto Now Stablecoin investment platform Trade Forex Simon Yoon. Simon Yoon reports on blockchain technology for TokenPost. Send corrections or tips to [email protected].