Agentic payments for marketplaces: How a smart fridge can shop safely
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Ana Andres
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Ana Andres
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AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
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Anyone letting an AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → transact needs a concrete model for scoped authority and safe spend, and this comes from the payments provider building those primitives.
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While a smart fridge can detect when a household is running out of milk, the more interesting engineering problem begins after that.
