Ant International has partnered with Visa and Mastercard to develop common standards for identifying and monitoring AI agents as autonomous software takes on a larger role in global payments. Ant International said Thursday that the companies will work on an…

Mastercard has launched Agent Connect to give merchants one integration for product discovery, cart creation and customer-approved payments across AI shopping platforms. Mastercard Agent Connect reduces separate merchant integrations Mastercard said in a Sep. 9 announcement that Agent Connect allows…

Google Play is adding Venmo in the US, allowing users to pay for apps, games, subscriptions and other digital content through their Venmo accounts.