Topic: payment integration
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Cloudflare Partners with Top Payment Firms to Secure Agentic Commerce
Cloudflare has partnered with Visa, Mastercard, and American Express to create a secure authentication framework using the Web Bot Auth protocol, enabling AI shopping agents to transact safely with online merchants worldwide. The Trusted Agent Protocol allows merchants to verify the identity and ...
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Square unveils AI voice ordering and integrated Bitcoin for merchants
Square has introduced AI-powered voice ordering for restaurants, enabling automated phone order-taking and menu inquiries within its payment ecosystem. The platform now includes enhanced AI assistants with local insights, improved delivery integrations, and inventory management tools to streamlin...
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PayPal & OpenAI: Shop Directly in ChatGPT
Starting in 2026, PayPal will integrate with OpenAI's Instant Checkout in ChatGPT, allowing users to make purchases directly within the AI interface using the Agentic Commerce Protocol. PayPal will offer its wallet as a payment method in ChatGPT, providing buyer and seller protection, dispute res...
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ChatGPT Now Shops for You: The Future of Online Buying
OpenAI has introduced Instant Checkout in ChatGPT, enabling users in the U.S. to purchase products directly within conversations without leaving the platform, making it a personal shopping assistant. The system uses the Agentic Commerce Protocol, developed with Stripe, to facilitate transactions,...
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OpenAI Challenges Google, Amazon With AI Shopping Agent
OpenAI's new "Instant Checkout" feature enables U.S. users to purchase directly from Etsy and Shopify sellers within ChatGPT, potentially shifting e-commerce influence from giants like Amazon to AI-driven platforms. The feature allows seamless transactions without leaving the chat, supporting var...
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Google's New Protocol Powers AI Shopping Agents
Google has introduced the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard to streamline AI shopping assistants across the entire retail experience, from discovery to checkout, by eliminating cumbersome integrations. A key application is a new, frictionless checkout within Google's AI interfac...
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Get Up to $50 Back When You Pay with PayPal in Perplexity Chat
Perplexity and PayPal have launched an "instant buy" feature in the U.S., allowing users to make purchases directly within the chat interface using their PayPal accounts, simplifying the shopping process during the holiday season. The feature builds on Perplexity's AI shopping assistant, which pr...
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Google Adds Shopping to Gemini and AI Search
Google is launching an AI-powered commerce initiative, introducing a new open-source **Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)** with major retail partners to streamline product discovery and purchasing. A key feature is a direct checkout within Google Search and Gemini, allowing users to complete purc...
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On Me Secures $6M to Revolutionize Gift Cards
On Me, a startup founded by former Google employees, has secured $6 million in seed funding to expand its digital gifting platform, which focuses on experiences and personal passions rather than specific storefronts. The platform addresses environmental waste by replacing traditional plastic gift...
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Google Unveils AI Checkout & Business Agent Protocol
Google is launching a new "agentic commerce" system, featuring a Universal Commerce Protocol for in-search checkout and AI Business Agents that act as virtual sales associates for brands. These features allow consumers to research, compare, and complete purchases entirely within Google's ecosyste...
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