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AAIF Launch Signals Standardization Wave as Google, Microsoft, and Stripe Push Agent-Ready Platforms

Payments and Commerce Turn Agentic: Stripe Debuts Agentic Suite, Visa and Global Payments Map the New Rails

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December 11, 2025

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Stripe Unveils an “Agentic Commerce Suite” for Selling Through AI Agents

Stripe introduced an Agentic Commerce Suite positioned as a full stack for businesses that want to sell via AI agents instead of traditional storefronts. The suite focuses on agent-friendly product feeds, pricing, inventory, checkout flows and attribution, so companies can treat agents as a primary sales channel rather than a side integration.

HBR Survey Reveals Trust Gap in Agentic AI for Core Operations

A Harvard Business Review study of 603 global leaders shows only 6% of companies fully trust AI agents for unsupervised core processes, with 43% limiting them to routine tasks and 39% requiring human oversight. Readiness lags too: just 20% report infrastructure fit for agentic workflows, 15% for data systems, and 12% for risk controls. Implications point to a cautious scaling phase businesses experimenting in low-risk areas must invest in governance to bridge the enthusiasm-reality divide, avoiding stalled adoption amid rapid agent proliferation.

Linux Foundation Launches Agentic AI Foundation

The Linux Foundation unveiled the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to host open-source standards for AI agents, anchored by donations from Anthropic (MCP), Block (Goose) and OpenAI (AGENTS.md). The goal is to prevent a fragmented, closed ecosystem by making these protocols the shared “plumbing” for interoperable, enterprise-ready agents.

Microsoft Turns Azure Copilot Into a Fleet of Cloud Ops Agents

In its Ignite recap, Microsoft highlighted a new Azure Copilot experience built around specialized agents for migration, deployment, observability, optimization and resilience. Paired with Microsoft IQ (knowledge layer) and Foundry, the stack is pitched as a way to build AI apps and agents that can reason over enterprise data and infrastructure with governed, policy-aware retrieval.

Global Payments Quantifies Merchant Readiness for Agentic Commerce

Global Payments’ 2026 Commerce and Payments Trends Report dives into how merchants perceive AI agents that shop and buy on consumers’ behalf. It finds meaningful early exposure many small and mid-sized businesses have already seen agents make purchases alongside sizable concern about security, fraud and dispute resolution, underscoring both the upside and friction points in agent-driven checkout.

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