Agentic Commerce
Deep research for the latest happenings in the world of x402 and Agentic Commerce
Mastercard Admits 22 Startups to Inaugural Start Path Agentic Commerce Cohort
Twenty-two companies were admitted to Mastercard Start Path 's first Agentic Commerce & Services cohort, announced September 2–3, 2026 — the first time the program has assembled a full class around ag...
Mastercard Launches Agent Connect a Week After Anthropic Releases Its Open-Source Shopping Agent Blueprint
Roughly 75% of surveyed consumers say they distrust AI agents making autonomous payment decisions with their money and data. That number came from Visa CEO Ryan McInerney on September 8 at the Goldman...
Rain Launches Agentic Payments Alliance With Visa, Mastercard and 24 Other Founding Members
Twenty-six companies put their names on the same working coalition on Tuesday, August 18, and two of them were Visa and Mastercard — the two networks that spend the rest of the year shipping competing...
Ninth Circuit Vacates Amazon Injunction Against Perplexity Shopping Agents
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act turned 40 this year. Enacted in 1986, drafted for a world of dial-up intrusions and mainframe credentials, it has spent four decades being stretched to cover scrapers,...
IAB Publishes the First Industry Standard for Measuring Brand Visibility in AI Answers
Google AI Overviews now reach more than 2.5 billion users a month and appear on almost half of all searches. ChatGPT carries more than 900 million weekly active users. Against that, one number does th...
Money Disappears Into Conversation: Inside MoonPay's PayBox, the Non-Custodial Vault for AI Agents
120 million. That's how many AI-assisted payment transactions Alipay processed in a single week during February 2026, according to NielsenIQ's July report "The Commerce Revolution: Where East Meets We...
The 35-Year HTTP Error Code That Just Became the Internet's Payment Rail for AI Agents
Seventy-five million transactions. That's how many payments AI agents have executed over the past 30 days using x402 — a protocol built on an HTTP status code that sat dormant since 1999 with the anno...
The Agentic Storefront Under Siege: How Criminal AI Is Targeting the Infrastructure Built for Legitimate Commerce
47.9 percent of all global e-commerce traffic was generated by AI bots in December 2025. The number comes from Akamai's State of the Internet report released July 15—titled "Securing the Agentic Store...
Accountable to the People They Serve: Washington's First Federal Rulebook for AI Shopping Agents
Twenty-three percent of Americans — roughly seventy-six million people — made a purchase using an AI agent in a single month last year, according to Morgan Stanley. None of those transactions took pla...
The AI Citation Gap: Brands Are Losing Visibility to Agents — and Only Now Building Tools to Fight Back
One billion people now use Google AI Mode every month. They're not clicking on blue links — they're asking questions and receiving synthesized answers that name some brands and skip others, often comp...