Agentic Commerce

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...

The Liability Question That Will Define Agentic Commerce

The first hard question regulators are asking about agentic commerce isn't about AI safety in the abstract. It's about chargebacks. When an AI agent buys something on a consumer's behalf — a flight, a...

The Tipping Point: For the First Time, AI Agents Now Outnumber Humans on the Web

The number came out of Cloudflare's network data quietly, then landed everywhere at once. On June 3, 2026, automated traffic — driven overwhelmingly by agentic AI systems — crossed 57.5% of all HTML r...

Adyen Agentic: The Universal Translator That Could Settle Agentic Commerce's Protocol Wars

Agentic commerce currently runs on four protocols. OpenAI's ACP, Google's UCP, AP2, and Meta's checkout system each impose different data formats, different authentication requirements, different chec...

Europe's AI Agents Just Made Their First Real Purchase — And It Changes Everything

On June 2, 2026, at the Money 20/20 Europe conference in Amsterdam, three of the continent's most powerful financial institutions — Worldline, ING, and Mastercard — quietly made history. Together, the...