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The Shopping Bot Has Entered Checkout
· New York time
Stripe says AI agents are increasingly using its Link payment service to shop for users, according to Upstarts Media. The company has not shared transaction numbers, leaving the scale of that activity unquantified. The practical question is how delegated shopping preserves the buyer's intent. Finding an item and authorizing payment are different responsibilities. Convenience depends on the boundaries between them being clear. The ideal assistant saves a trip through checkout. The less appealing version merely makes impulse buying happen at machine speed, with excellent punctuation.
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