Ruby Powers AI Payments
Three Ruby-based companies — Coinbase (Rails), Stripe (Sinatra), and Shopify (Rails) — back the x402 Foundation, the Linux Foundation's new open standard for AI-native payments.
Coinbase and Stripe co-founded the foundation with Cloudflare. Shopify joins alongside Google, AWS, Microsoft, Mastercard, and Visa. The first open protocol for agent-to-agent commerce.
Apr 2, 2026
Gusto Acquires Mosey, Ships Payroll in Claude
Apr 8–9, 2026
SF-based Rails unicorn ($9.5B valuation) acquires compliance platform Mosey — then ships payroll inside Claude and Slack. Two agent-native moves in 48 hours.
Read more about Gusto acquiring MoseyIntercom Opens Fin API
Apr 3, 2026
Rails Foundation Core member opens its Fin AI agent to developers. Fin Search and Reranker APIs. Contracts from $250K/year. Fin is on $100M ARR inside a $400M ARR Rails monolith.
Read more about Intercom Fin APIApollo.io Acquires Pocus
Mar 20, 2026
SF-based Rails sales platform (230M+ contacts, approaching $200M ARR) absorbs enterprise revenue intelligence. 400% enterprise growth in 12 months.
Read more about Apollo.io acquiring PocusThatch Welcomes Venteur Customers
SF-based Rails health benefits platform (Series B, $84.5M raised) takes over competitor Venteur's customers, employees, and broker relationships — consolidating ICHRA lead.
Read more about Thatch welcoming VenteurBasecamp Goes Agent-Native
DHH ships new API, CLI, and agent skill modules. AI agents can now manage projects, create todos, post messages. HEY and Fizzy next.
Read more about Basecamp agent-nativeRails Adds AGENTS.md
Rafael Mendonça França opens AGENTS.md; Xavier Noria merges. Official AI agent guidance now lives in the Rails repo — monorepo structure, testing conventions, contribution rules.
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Simple AI makes it easy to build and deploy enterprise-grade phone agents in days, not weeks. Iconic businesses use us for sales calls, customer support, leads qualification, and more. YC-backed.
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