Mastercard Agent Pay for AI agents

    by Gigliola: Tech

    Mastercard has rolled out a payment system built specifically for AI agents rather than people. The new service, Agent Pay, allows autonomous machines to carry out transactions 24/7 at machine speed. This move is one of the strongest signs yet that agent-driven commerce is shifting from theory to reality at a pace that has caught many off guard.

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    MasterCard launching agent pay for machines. So MasterCard has introduced agent pay for AI agents and devices to make fast autonomous payments. This enables high frequency, low value, always on transactions across cards, accounts and stable coins. This shifts commerce to machine speed automated model with built in trust and governance. so they are preparing for the ai agentic commerce wave here and that's going to be so huge because a lot of money doesn't get spent because of humans being involved right where they they think they hum and haw on the decision and then even just life pops up right because there's friction to making the purchase and then in turn life continues to pop up and then you may go spend the money in other places or not spend a period where that's no longer part of the equation. Like think about the speed of the flow of money that will happen. Very true, man. Yeah. It's all happening so fast too. Like if like agentic commerce was a term that became something that tech people were talking about maybe six months ago, maybe. and now it feels like we might be about to like really start to see that already if you enjoyed this be sure to hit that like button and follow to stay up to date with what's going on in the world and everything else memes and markets peace