Mastercard launches Agent Pay to enable AI-powered machine-to-machine payments
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CCN — Mastercard rolled out a payments service on June 10 designed to let artificial intelligence agents transact directly with one another, deepening its push into a market where software, not people, initiates purchases.
Agent Pay for Machines, known as AP4M, allows transactions to be permissioned, orchestrated, and settled at machine speed across Mastercard's global network, the company said. Some payments run as small as fractions of a cent and execute continuously in the background of digital commerce.
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