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Commerce
Agentic orders across Forter's network quadrupled since August. Fraud doubled in two months. The merchant liability wall is not waiting for merchants to get ready.
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Commerce
Agentic commerce has moved beyond phone screens into smart TVs, lock screens, and streaming devices. Merchants who thought this was a web problem are now exposed on surfaces they never planned for.
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Commerce
Traditional carriers are excluding AI from their policies. Harbor wants to measure the risk, block the bad decisions, and insure what remains.
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Commerce
Agent Trust turns detection into a protocol-agnostic registry and transaction-level enforcement. No federal mandate requires it. A Senate bill that would is sitting in committee.
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Commerce
Four competing pricing architectures are fighting to replace the seat license as AI agents take over enterprise workflows. None has won. Salesforce is hedging all four.
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Commerce
LivingSocial rebuilt itself as an agent-native surface for 56,000+ local experiences. Agents can search, compare, and prepare carts. They cannot pay.
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Commerce
Collison's casual podcast claim is the most significant data point about agent commerce adoption — and the most opaque. Stripe has the best view of the market and is not sharing it.
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Commerce
One of the most popular agents in the market presents as ordinary Chrome to every merchant it touches. Cequence and Fingerprint independently confirm the detection gap — and the tools to close it are arriving.
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Commerce
A coalition of GoDaddy, Infoblox, Google, and Cloudflare just provided the first end-to-end proof of a seven-layer agent commerce stack. The demo successfully blocked rogue scenarios using existing open standards, though the payment layer remains locked in test mode.
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Commerce
Instead of blocking AI agents at the checkout gate, DeepLumen's Agentic Page structures product data so agents can find it. The vendor claims nearly 2,000 Shopify installs and orders within 24 hours of deployment – all vendor-reported, none independently verified.
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