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AND THEN THERE’S MONEY

Here’s another signal developing underneath all of this.

AI agents are moving toward actually transacting.

Ant International is introducing business accounts designed for AI agents, with identity checks, activity monitoring and human intervention capabilities.

Visa, Mastercard and Ant International are also working on a shared “Know Your Agent” framework to identify and verify AI agents across payment ecosystems.

So we’re moving from:

AI that talks

to

AI that acts

to

AI that can potentially transact.

That’s a gigantic workflow shift.

Because once an agent can move money, trust can no longer be a vague feelin ...