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Santander and Mastercard run Europe’s first AI-executed payment pilot

An artificial intelligence system has, for the first time in Europe, completed a payment inside a live banking network without a human entering the final command. Banco Santander and Mastercard confirmed that they had executed a live end-to-end payment initiated and completed by an AI agent, a software system operating within the bank’s own regulated […]

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Debenhams pilots agentic AI commerce via PayPal integration

Debenhams is piloting agentic AI commerce via PayPal integration to reduce mobile friction and help solve a familiar problem for retailers. Mobile checkout abandonment remains a persistent revenue leak for digital retailers. Debenhams Group is attempting to close this gap by deploying an agentic AI interface within the PayPal app. The pilot makes Debenhams the

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Klarna backs Google UCP to power AI agent payments

Klarna aims to address the lack of interoperability between conversational AI agents and backend payment systems by backing Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard designed to unify how AI agents discover products and execute transactions. The partnership, which also sees Klarna supporting Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), places the Swedish fintech firm among

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How Shopify is bringing agentic AI to enterprise commerce

Shopify is enhancing core enterprise commerce workflows with agentic AI, automating operations while expanding sales channels. The adoption of generative AI in commerce has largely centred on customer support chatbots and basic content generation. Shopify’s Winter ‘26 Edition, titled Renaissance, pushes this technology toward agentic commerce where AI systems actively manage workflows, configure infrastructure, and

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Instacart pilots agentic commerce by embedding in ChatGPT

Instacart has deployed an embedded checkout experience within ChatGPT through the emerging Agentic Commerce Protocol. With the deployment, the company is the first partner to launch an app on ChatGPT that offers a complete shopping cycle – from query to payment – without requiring the user to leave the conversation interface. Operationalising agentic commerce The

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