Visa preps AI-ready credit cards for automated shopping transactions

Getty Images/Anna Barclay/Contributor AI has transformed everyday tasks such as writing, coding -- even shopping. Now, Visa is introducing an initiative to prepare its payment network for a new era of agentic AI shopping experiences. On Wednesday, the company unveiled Visa Intelligent Commerce at the Visa Global Product Drop. According to the release, this initiative opens Visa's payment network to developers and engineers who are building agentic AI shopping experiences that find and buy products for users. Also: ChatGPT is your personal shopper now Moreover, Visa Intelligent Commerce is a commercial partner program for AI platforms that includes a suite of integrated APIs developers can use to deploy Visa's AI commerce capabilities. According to Visa, the program offers AI-ready credit cards that replace card details with tokenized digital credentials; AI-powered personalization, which (with user consent) shares basic Visa spend and purchase insights to improve Agent performance ... Read full article.