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Walmart Opens Its Store to AI Shopping Agents, Discloses No Transaction Volume
Walmart announced on October 21 that it is building Agent Profiles, a Walmart Agent Gateway and new terms of use for AI shopping agents. It disclosed no transactions, developer counts or fees. The ann...
DataDome reports Meta's Muse agent took a third of agentic browser traffic without identifying itself
One third. That is the share of agentic-browser traffic that Meta 's shopping agent Muse captured in the nine September days DataDome could measure it, according to the bot-detection vendor's Q3 2026 ...
Crossmint Launches Agent Commerce Toolkit, Leaves Liability Question Open
Four vendors down to one. That is the pitch Crossmint is making with its Agent Commerce Toolkit, launched October 8, 2026 in Miami. Before this, getting an AI agent to actually buy something online me...
Visa, BILL and Billtrust Launch Pilot Letting AI Agents Pay Supplier Invoices Without Human Login
Nearly 500,000 businesses use BILL , and some of them are now the first to let an AI agent get into a supplier's payment portal and finish an invoice payment with no human logging in. On October 20, 2...
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...