Every card network is racing to answer the same question: how do you let an AI agent spend a person’s money safely? The EMVCo agentic payments framework, published this week, is the card industry’s standards body stepping into that race not with its own payment product, but with a shared foundation the whole industry can […]
AI agents can soon pay your grocery order, your electricity bill, or your monthly subscription, without you tapping a single button. India may be about to make that real for hundreds of millions of people who use UPI.
Most merchants still start their day the same way: log in, check a dashboard, compare money in against money out. Mark Alsentzer, Chief Technology Officer at Kurv, argues that this decades-old ritual is exactly what AI should be eliminating, not improving.
Typing a sentence to a chatbot and watching it actually buy cryptocurrency for you used to sound like science fiction. Yet, today we have MoonPay’s PayBox live inside Grok, and that idea turns into a real, working feature for anyone eager to try it.
Meta preps to alleviate your daily online routine with agentic tools; Harvard professors are getting AI clones to focus on more personalized interactions with students; Experian helps users browse credit card offerings with ChatGPT; while Anthropic experiments with AI tech controlling physical equipment. AI use cases scope is expanding daily and big industry names are […]
What if the next order on your investment account wasn’t typed by you, but by an AI agent acting on your behalf? Scalable Capital may soon find answers to that question with its new agentic trading solution.
Cloudflare Kitesurf and the x402 agent payments protocol could bring AI agents one step closer to shopping and paying without human help.
Stablecoins — digital tokens pegged to the US dollar, are supposed to be the future of payments. It turns out, for one crypto infrastructure company, that future is already here, and most merchants have no idea it’s happening under their noses.
Alipay introduced China’s first full-stack agentic commerce platform on August 17, 2026, at its AI Ecosystem Partner Conference in Hangzhou. The platform is designed to help merchants move from standard digital operations to AI-powered operations.
Nvidia, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, Microsoft, IBM, Hugging Face, Databricks, Salesforce, SpaceXAI, and hundred more tech firms are supporting the Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA) SAFE Framework aimed at standardizing reporting for cases when AI agent or an automated system makes unauthorized, unintended or otherwise unsafe actions.
Google’s latest update to Maps brings agentic food ordering into its Ask Maps experience. Toast and Square are among the first services supporting orders.
Retailers and payment providers still have some thinking time left until August 14, 2026. That’s the date when a new industry standard meant to make AI shopping agents accountable when something goes wrong is activated. After that date, the draft closes to comment and moves toward a stable release.
Every payment starts with a question: who is actually asking for this money to move? For most of the industry’s history, and human history, for that matter, a human was behind the wheel. A real person answered the authorisation question by typing a password, tapping a card, or showing an ID. That is changing now. […]
The rules governing who can buy what, from whom, and under what authority are being rewritten by trade groups and card networks racing to keep pace with software that shops on its own.
Oops, AI did it again… Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude family of large language models and popular AI chatbot, has disclosed that its AI model gained unauthorized access to the systems of three real organizations during cybersecurity testing after a configuration error accidentally exposed supposedly isolated test environments to the public internet. […]
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