Linas's Newsletter
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October 16, 2026
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Linas's Newsletter is a Substack by Linas Beliūnas on where finance meets AI, with a daily issue under the heading "FinTech & AI is Eating the World", a free weekly recap and longer paid pieces.
Recent headlines
On 16 October it summarised Stripe CEO Patrick Collison saying that AI shopping agents will let better products win. A day earlier it asked whether Starling Bank's sovereign AI still depends on Google and NVIDIA. On 14 October the headline was "JPMorgan shut AI Agents out of Chase. Mercury let them in", noting that assistants recommend Mercury five to one over Chase. Founder-oriented guides followed: how to hire a Grok bot as a first AI employee (13 October) and how to make Claude limitless (9 October). Other pieces covered Revolut building its own models and a16z's State of Markets 2026 deck.
Why payments readers follow it
The agent-commerce angle is the draw: how banks, card issuers and neobanks expose themselves to AI shoppers, and who gets recommended when the assistant picks a provider. It is a quick scan for PSP product leads wanting a daily digest in English.
Payments angle
Daily digest of agentic commerce, bank-versus-AI-agent access (Chase, Mercury), Stripe, Ramp and Revolut moves.
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