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Agents2026-04-30 · source-backed
Visa's global rollout now covers Australia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and 10+ markets, enabling issuing banks to test agent-initiated payments in production. Card enrollment, tokenization, and transaction authorization by AI agents. Combined with Stripe's Sessions 2026 announcements, the payment infrastructure for autonomous agent commerce is being built faster than I expected.
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Stripe announced 288 products and features at Sessions 2026 on April 29, and the headline isn't the number. It's who the new customer is. The customer is an AI agent. Stripe partnered with Google to enable purchases inside AI Mode and Gemini. Link, Stripe's consumer wallet wit...
CoinDesk reports the Linux Foundation-affiliated body is building an HTTP-native payment standard for agents, named after the 402 status code. Premier members span payments (Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Stripe, Adyen, Fiserv), tech (Google, AWS, Cloudflare, Shopify), and crypto (Co...
Sandhya Devanathan departs after more than a decade to run consumer growth, enterprise adoption, partnerships, regulatory engagement and operations across Southeast Asia and Australia, based in Singapore, reporting to APAC managing director Kiran Mani. It follows Prabhjeet Sin...
OpenAI agreed to acquire Ona, which provides secure cloud environments for long-running autonomous agent workflows, folding it into the Codex team so agents run "while your laptop is closed" (OpenAI). In parallel, a Visa partnership integrates payments, tokenization, and secur...
Forerunner led a $30M Series A into Natural on July 20 to build "the transactional plumbing required for AI agents," entering a field that already has Google's UCP, OpenAI's ACP, Stripe/Tempo's MPP (with Visa as design partner), Google's AP2, Ant International's AMP, and Maste...
Agents can plan a purchase. They couldn't actually pay for one. That gap is closing fast, and the card networks are sprinting to own the layer that fills it. Visa partnered with OpenAI to let AI agents make payments directly across OpenAI's platform. The same week, Mastercard...
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