#agentic commerce
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AI Micropayments Point to Crypto’s Role in Agentic Commerce
AI agents use crypto for tiny payments, creating new market for automated commerce.
Pymnts · 1m
Who owns the customer when AI agents shop
As AI agents make purchasing decisions for consumers, control of the customer relationship is shifting from retailers to the agents themselves.
Harvard Business Review · 4m
American Express Secures AI Purchases with Intent Framework
American Express launches Intent Intelligence Framework to prevent unauthorized AI agent transactions.
AI Insider · 1m
AI Assistants Fight Over Shoppers, Infrastructure Gets Paid Either Way
Amazon's fulfillment model shows why infrastructure pays when shoppers change where they start.
Pymnts · 3m
Mastercard Adds AI Risk Insights for Agentic Payments
Mastercard launches AI-powered risk tools to boost trust in automated payments.
Pymnts · 1m
TikTok Launches External Ad Network
TikTok rolls out ad network for 400k apps.
Music Ally · 1m
Public launches AI agents for prediction market trading
The investing app partners with Kalshi to let users deploy automated strategies tied to real-world events.
Fortune · 1m
Virtual Cards Enable Agent-Driven B2B Payments
Virtual cards give software permission to spend company money securely.
Pymnts · 1m
Why Building AI Agents Isn't the Hardest Part of Agentic Commerce
Agentic commerce's real challenge isn't AI agents but infrastructure trust.
Pymnts · 1m
Banks Warn AI Agents Could Boost Shopping Scams
Banks fear AI shopping agents may increase scams and fraud as they push for safer adoption.
PCMAG · 1m
Amazon Expands Merchant Operations Beyond Its Platform
Amazon integrates Walmart, Shopify, eBay and TikTok orders into Seller Central to manage merchants' full business workflows.
Pymnts · 1m
Mastercard: Merchants Want AI Shoppers Without Losing the Customer
Merchants demand AI shopping tools that keep customers without sacrificing brand loyalty.
Pymnts · 1m
Legal Context Protocol Logs AI Agent Terms
New standard tracks what shoppers approve in AI payments.
Pymnts · 1m
Amazon AI Agents Power Merchant Operations
Amazon’s AI shifts from answering to automating merchant decisions.
Pymnts · 1m
Agentic Commerce Needs Its Febreze Moment
AI shopping tools fail because they skip the reward step
Pymnts · 1m
Banks Demand Audit Trail for AI Shopping Payments
Banks want payment records showing what AI agents did after customer instructions
Pymnts · 1m
Banks Warn Consumers Doubt AI Agents' Loyalty
Global banks warn shoppers distrust AI agents handling payments due to fraud risks and unclear accountability.
Pymnts · 1m
Meta's Muse Beats ChatGPT in AI Agent Race
Meta's Muse AI agent now leads ChatGPT in Apple store rankings while Stripe's Link powers checkout for agentic commerce.
Pymnts · 1m
Paymob Raises $35M for MENA Payment Expansion
Paymob secures $35 million to boost payment coverage for small businesses across Middle East and North Africa
Pymnts · 1m
Mastercard and Danske Bank Launch Denmark's First AI-Powered Payment
Mastercard enables Denmark's first AI agent to complete payments without customer intervention.
Pymnts · 1m
Apple's retail pioneer doubts AI shopping agents
Ron Johnson, who built Apple's stores, says Silicon Valley is overestimating how much shopping people will automate with AI.
TechCrunch · 2m
Monica Caldas transforms insurance for the AI era
Liberty Mutual's CIO is modernizing a century-old company by embedding AI across core operations while rebuilding legacy systems.
TIME · 1m
Visa and Mastercard race to own AI checkout
Payment giants are building AI shopping tools, but most shoppers still want to click buy themselves.
Fortune · 1m
AI Agents Get Their Own Bank Accounts
Ant International launches dedicated accounts for AI agents, complete with real-time monitoring and loss guarantees.
Pymnts · 2m
AI agents are becoming payment customers
As autonomous software takes on real transactions, payment systems built for humans must adapt to verify and control AI buyers.
Pymnts · 1m
Amazon blocks Meta's Muse from shopping
Amazon has shut down Meta's AI shopping agent, escalating tensions over how AI agents should access retail platforms.
Adweek · 1m
Cloudflare blocks AI shopping agents from ad-supported pages
The infrastructure company is splitting the web between human readers and AI crawlers, putting shopping agents at odds with publishers.
Pymnts · 1m
When fraud becomes the customer
AI is helping criminals impersonate real people so convincingly that banks need to rethink how they verify identity.
Pymnts · 3m
AI agents are about to buy things for you
As artificial intelligence moves beyond recommendations to making purchases on your behalf, security and trust become everything.
The Economic Times · 1m
Circle launches Arc blockchain for AI agent commerce
The new blockchain targets financial markets and AI-driven transactions, launching with over 100 partners.
Pymnts · 1m
Google pushes Gemini deeper into voice AI
Google’s new Gemini voice models aim to make enterprise AI agents cheaper, smarter and easier to talk to.
Pymnts · 1m
Agentic commerce has a trust problem
Mastercard and PYMNTS say AI shopping agents will only scale if consumers and merchants feel as protected as they do online today.
Pymnts · 1m
Shopify says AI search lifts conversions 80%
Shopify's execs say shoppers who start in an LLM land on the product page 2.5x more often, and buy far more when they do.
Pymnts · 1m
Your AI agent, your liability
A federal appeals court just decided that when an AI agent logs into a site, the user did it, not the company that built the bot.
Pymnts · 1m