Mastercard announced agents paying at machine speed. What's the first use case that actually needs that?
Summary
Mastercard announced Agent Pay, a product enabling AI agents to make direct payments to other agents at machine speed with settlement in seconds, prompting discussion on compelling use cases that require such speed.
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