AI Agents
Amazon launches ai agent payments system with coinbase and stripe
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Amazon Web Services introduced a new infrastructure on Thursday allowing autonomous AI agents to make payments using stablecoins. The system, called Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, was built in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe. It focuses initially on micropayments for digital services.
Senior executives from PayPal and Google Cloud said at the Consensus Miami conference that AI agents will drive the next wave of internet commerce on cryptocurrency rails. They cited technical barriers preventing agents from using traditional bank accounts. The discussion focused on new protocols and merchant preparations needed for this shift.
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An artificial intelligence agent named Manfred has become the first to autonomously establish its own corporation by obtaining an Employer Identification Number from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. The development was announced by ClawBank, the project behind the agent, which also confirmed that Manfred holds an FDIC-insured bank account and a cryptocurrency wallet.
OpenClaw, an open-source AI project formerly known as Moltbot and Clawdbot, has surged to over 100,000 GitHub stars in less than a week. This execution engine enables AI agents to perform actions like sending emails and managing calendars on users' behalf within chat interfaces. Its rise highlights potential to simplify crypto usability while raising security concerns.
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The Linux Foundation announced the creation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) on December 9, 2025, in San Francisco, to foster open-source development of AI agents. Co-founded by Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI, the initiative includes donations of key projects: Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block's goose framework, and OpenAI's AGENTS.md. The foundation aims to promote interoperability and prevent fragmentation in AI agent technologies.