Agentic Commerce
Worldline, ING and Mastercard have run Europe’s first live agentic payment, with an AI agent assembling a purchase the shopper still has to approve — showing agent-led buying can clear existing bank security and authorisation.
A Walmart-backed startup, Eko, is hand-building an “AI-ready” product catalogue — photographing millions of items from every angle — so AI shopping agents like ChatGPT and Gemini can describe and sell them accurately.
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI Agents are increasingly spending money on people’s behalf and exchanging money and Levie says this is an opportunity for…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If AI acts in your best interests that’s fine, but most AI’s are owned by companies who want to sell…
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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In tests bigger AI with more compute power always bested and beat their smaller less well resourced counterparts, so in…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly AI will be negotiating with humans and also other AI – so you better make sure your AI is…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If Google wants to it could become the default shopping interface that aggregates every other retail store – and in…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Agentic commerce is increasingly a thing, and it disintermediates traditional E-Commerce players. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly AI is your search engine and your personal shopping assistant, and that changes everything. Love the Exponential Future?…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Agentic commerce lets AI buy products for you from “anywhere” and is a new way for companies to disintermediate one…
