#12: Agentic Commerce Takes Center Stage

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Visa, Mastercard, PayPal Launch Agentic Payment Solutions: Major payment players unveiled initiatives enabling AI agents to make purchases on behalf of users. Visa launched "Visa Intelligent Commerce," Mastercard introduced "Agent Pay" with Agentic Tokens (partnering with Microsoft, IBM), and PayPal released its "Agent Toolkit" for developers. link

OpenAI enhanced shopping experience, making it simpler and faster to find, compare and buy products in ChatGPT.

What if you could vibe code AI Agents? Langbase introduced Chai.new — your on-demand AI engineer that help vibe code AI Agents in minutes.

Microsoft Hits 1M Custom Agents: Customers have built over 1 million custom agents using Copilot Studio. Microsoft also expanded its Security Copilot with 11 new specialized agents and deepened Azure AI Foundry integrations.

Microsoft Predicts Organizational Shifts as AI Agents Become Teammates. Microsoft’s recent report forecasts that 28% of managers will hire “agent bosses” to oversee hybrid human‑AI teams, and 32% are planning to recruit AI agent specialists within the next 18 months. Link

Meet LocalScope: a microservice-driven app built using the Fetch.ai agent framework and Agentverse. From food to housing, healthcare to events - AI agents coordinate to serve hyperlocal results. ASI-1 ready. ream more

Lovable 2.0 Launched with Smarter AI Agents and Multi-user collab support. link

Google is reportedly showing ads in chats with some third-party AI chatbots. link

Meta launched a standalone AI app featuring a public feed where users can share and explore AI-generated prompts and responses, raising privacy concerns over potential exposure of sensitive information. Link

ArmorCode Releases Anya AI Agent: The "Anya" AI agent is now generally available within ArmorCode's ASPM platform to assist DevSecOps teams by identifying risks and prioritizing remediation.

Ketryx Launches Compliance Agents: Ketryx introduced "validated" AI agents designed to automate compliance processes in regulated sectors like life sciences, starting with a Requirement Conflict Detection agent.

Atlassian Unveils Dev Agents: At its Team’25 conference, Atlassian announced new AI agents (in beta) for planning, coding, reviewing, and deployment, plus the Rovo Studio App for custom agent creation.

Docker & Solo.io Enhance Agent Ecosystem: Docker announced its MCP Catalog and Toolkit, while Solo.io launched Agent Gateway and Agent Mesh to improve security and observability for agent communications.

Anthropic Integrates Claude: Claude can now integrate with tools like Jira, Zapier, and Asana via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding. link

Apple Advances Health Agent: Development of "Project Mulberry," an AI health coaching agent, is accelerating for a potential iOS 19.4 release.

TOP Read Reports

🔐 Unit-42 just shared top ai agents threats report “AI Agents Are Here. So Are the Threats”. As AI agents gain real-world utility, they're also becoming attractive targets for attackers exploiting prompt injection, tool misuse, and leaked credentials. Palo Alto Networks urges a layered, defense-in-depth approach to secure these systems before threats scale. link

🤖 AI Agents Need a Common Language. A new survey from Shanghai Jiao Tong University highlights the fragmented landscape of AI agent communication protocols, revealing a lack of standardization that hinders scalability and collaboration. The study proposes a taxonomy of protocols and outlines a roadmap toward unified, interoperable systems that could unlock collective intelligence across industries. link

SoldaAI closed a $4 M seed round led by Accel, with AltaIR Capital participating, to advance its multimodal AI voice agents designed for autonomous phone‑based sales in retail and finance sectors.

Ascertain, led by former Amazon exec Dr. Mark Michalski, secured $10 M in Series A funding to develop AI agents that automate clinical documentation, prior authorizations, and compliance workflows for hospitals.

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