Stripe's Machine Payments Protocol lets AI agents pay for services directly—Twilio's pay-per-use model makes it a core ...

The three biggest names in payments all made major moves on AI agent infrastructure in the same week, signaling a new front in the payments war.

The Stripe-backed Tempo blockchain launched on mainnet and released a payments protocol for AI agents, while Visa released a tool to simplify AI agent payments.

Artificial intelligence is steadily moving beyond automation into economic activity, with new tools now allowing software ...