Alchemy’s AI-driven payment service gains access to Visa network

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OpenAI has signed a partnership agreement with Visa that allows the company’s AI agents to use the payment card for e-commerce transactions. The agreements lets users shop for everything from groceries and diapers to airline tickets without having to manually enter a lot of information. “As AI agents become active participants in the economy, Visa’s focus is on ensuring that transactions are reliable, secure, and seamless,” Visa Chief Product and Strategy Officer Jack Forestell said in a statement, according to AP. The pact means AI agents can complete purchases on a user’s behalf at virtually any merchant that accepts Visa. Details about the financial terms of the agreement, or whether specific transaction fees will apply, were not immediately detailed.

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The European Commission has unveiled its plans for digital sovereignty. Its proposals betray a disappointing lack of vision Beti Hohler is a Slovenian national who lives in the Netherlands. Like tens of millions of other Europeans, she uses Apple’s app store and has an Amazon account. When she travels for work or leisure, she may want to book a place on Airbnb or Booking, using a credit card issued by Visa or Mastercard, perhaps through PayPal. But when the Trump administration sanctioned her last year for her work as a judge at the international criminal court (ICC), her ability to use any of these services vanished overnight. Her credit cards, her accounts with US companies – all gone. The sanctions against Hohler and some of her colleagues mean they live in “constant uncertainty”, she said. Max von Thun is the director of Open Markets Institute Europe, an anti-monopoly thinktank Continue reading...

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