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Ant Consolidates Alipay for the Agent Economy, Racing Visa, Mastercard and Coinbase to Define How AI Pays
Ant Group has merged its digital payments, Alipay and credit-scoring units into one business group, betting that AI agents will soon initiate a growing share of everyday transactions. That reorganization folds Ant’s most ambitious bet, the open-sourced Agentic Mobile Protocol, into one push: make Alipay’s rails the default route AIagents pay through. It’s the same…
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AI Agentic Payments Get Their Passport Rules, Not Yet Their Customs Union
India’s and China’s payment authorities, alongside Visa, Mastercard and Ant International, have each moved in recent weeks to build systems for identifying and authorizing AI agents that pay on people’s behalf, as far as we can see from the sources we reviewed. None of the three efforts yet says who is liable when an agent…
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AI Agents Now Outconsume Humans in Tokens, Fueling a Shift Toward Cheaper Chinese Models
Autonomous AI agents now generate five times more tokens than humans, pushing costs toward cheap Chinese models even as US labs still command most AI revenue. Autonomous AI agents now generate five times more tokens than humans, pushing costs toward cheap Chinese models even as US labs still command most AI revenue. Autonomous AI agents…
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BPA Sellers Can’t Sell ‘It Works’ Anymore: How Freelancers, Agencies, & Platform Vendors can Get Ahead of the Grading Curve
For sellers of Business Process Automation (BPA), it wouldn’t be surprising if they saw the automation labor market as a bit of an open bazaar. But analysis of trends is showing that it’s becoming more of a a filtration system: raw, undifferentiated talent pours in at the top, and only what can pass through progressively…
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Application Programming Insurance: the Business Process Automation Market’s Currency of Trust
The risk of breakage in complex BPA is becoming sky high much too early in an organization’s growth trajectory. Worse, low-code and no-code platforms have lowered the barrier to entry in a way that made quiet failures even more punishing for a generation of API-slingers with barely any concept of rate limiting, error handling, and…