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  • What Is Agentic Commerce?

    Agentic commerce is online shopping where AI agents handle discovery, evaluation, negotiation, and payment on the user’s behalf. Here is how the flow works, which protocols power it, and what changed in 2026.

  • EU AI Act

    The EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) is the world’s first comprehensive AI law. Learn about its risk-based framework, enforcement timeline, penalties up to €35M, and what it means for companies worldwide.

  • Hallucination

    An AI hallucination occurs when a generative AI model produces outputs that sound plausible and authoritative but are factually incorrect, irrelevant, or entirely fabricated—presenting them with the same confidence as accurate information.

  • a16z Leads Runta Seed to Rebuild the Compute Stack Agents Actually Need

    Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has officially led the seed round for Runta, a startup focused on building a new execution layer for AI agents. According to an a16z blog post published on July 16, 2026, by Martin Casado, Yoko Li, and Guido Appenzeller, the firm has maintained a relationship with Runta CEO Guanlan for nearly a…

  • x402 protocol

    An open, internet-native payment protocol that enables instant, automatic stablecoin payments directly over HTTP, reviving the long-dormant HTTP 402 ‘Payment Required’ status code to facilitate machine-to-machine and AI-agent transactions.

  • Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP)

    The Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) is an open standard for AI agent commerce. Learn how ACP standardizes merchant interactions and preserves Merchant of Record status.

  • Prompt Injection

    At its core, prompt injection is a form of “instruction override.” When you interact with an AI, you provide a prompt—a set of instructions or a question. Prompt injection occurs when an attacker inserts their own malicious instructions into that process, tricking the model into prioritizing the attacker’s commands over the developer’s original programming. Think…

  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)

    Before MCP, connecting an AI agent to your private data or specific software tools was a fragmented, custom-built process. Every developer had to write unique “glue code” to make an AI talk to a database, a file system, or a project management tool. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) was introduced on November 25, 2024, by…

  • Tokenization

    Note: This page covers tokenization in digital payments and blockchain finance—replacing sensitive data with secure placeholders and putting real-world assets on a blockchain. For tokenization in AI and large language models (breaking text into subword units like BPE, WordPiece, and SentencePiece), see AI Tokenization. Tokenization is one of those terms that sounds technical but describes…

  • Visa Stablecoin Settlement Platform (VSP)

    The Visa Stablecoin Settlement Platform (VSP) is a set of tools and infrastructure that allows financial institutions-banks, payment processors, and fintech companies-to settle transactions using stablecoins on a blockchain instead of through traditional batch-processing systems. To understand why this matters, consider how cross-border payments have worked for decades. A bank in New York sending money…