Meta launched Muse, its largest consumer AI agent, on September 8, 2026, in the US via a dedicated app and WhatsApp, with pricing from a free tier to $20/month for Power and $100/month for Maximum, bu…
EMVCo, the technical body managing EMV specifications, released a draft framework on 01 September 2026 for secure, interoperable card-based agentic payments, introducing 'Intent Services' to manage co…
Visa, Mastercard, and Fiserv are founding members of the Agentic Payments Alliance (APA), a coalition of over 25 organizations announced by stablecoin payment infrastructure provider Rain on August 18…
Proof launched x401 v0.1.0 on June 25, 2026, an open, issuer-neutral HTTP protocol that uses a 4-node delegation chain to verify the identity and authorization behind AI agents, addressing a gap in ex…
A developer implemented both OpenAI's Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) and Google's Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) for AI-driven checkout, finding they solve the same problem in opposite ways: ACP is se…
Proof launched x401, an open protocol that uses cryptographic credentials to verify human authorization behind AI agents, with contributions from Circle, OpenAI, Google, and Okta. The protocol extends…