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stripe More than 10,000 retail and commerce leaders gathered in Las Vegas last week for Shoptalk 2026. Across sessions with Coach, OpenAI, Wayfair, Meta, Sephora, and others, the conversation around agentic commerce centered less on future potential and more on what’s already live: con…
stripe Earlier this week, more than 2,000 payments leaders gathered at the Merchant Risk Council (MRC) Vegas 2026 conference to discuss new fraud patterns, authentication strategies, and agentic commerce. One theme emerged: fraud has become more automated and increasingly difficult to…
stripe AI is evolving from question-and-answer chatbots to autonomous agents that can make comprehensive plans, execute actions, and evaluate outcomes. We believe agents will become an integral part of the internet economy, and they need the ability to transact with businesses and one…
stripe A future where we buy with AI agents feels inevitable. Making it actually work is another story. The moment agents meet live product catalogs, inventory, fraud systems, and customer support queues, sellers quickly run into a long list of real-world edge cases to solve for. Over…
stripe Last year, we launched Shared Payment Tokens (SPTs), a payment primitive for agentic commerce that lets agents initiate payments with a customer’s permission and preferred payment method, without exposing the underlying credentials. We’ve seen widespread adoption of SPTs by lead…
stripe Rob Frieman, CIO of URBN, and Maia Josebachvili, Stripe’s chief revenue officer of AI, during their NRF session on how URBN meets shoppers where they are. Agentic commerce dominated the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) annual conference in New York earlier this week. NRF launc…
stripe In September, we announced the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), the first live standard that enables programmatic commerce flows between AI agents and businesses. While ACP creates industry standards for agentic transactions, your business still faces a heavy integration lift to…