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The Agentic Commerce Report

A weekly read of everything that moved in agentic commerce — protocols, payment rails, retailer pilots, regulation. Summarised, sourced, and stitched to what came before.

Archive

41 issues

Every Sunday since September 2025, The Agentic Commerce Report has published a weekly digest of agentic commerce news — the developments in payment rails, retailer pilots, standards, identity, security, and regulation that moved the field that week. Each issue covers a defined seven-day window. Every claim cites a primary source: a press release, a regulatory filing, an academic paper, or an official standards-body publication. No opinion, no forecasts, no readiness verdicts. The full archive below is the running primary record of agentic commerce since its emergence as a distinct commercial category. Issues are ordered newest-first; each links to the full sourced summary for that week.

  1. No. 41 October 5–11, 2026 Anthropic Expands AI Agent Security Access and Launches Critical Infrastructure Defense Program →
  2. No. 40 September 28 – October 4, 2026 Stripe Expands Agent Checkout and Makes OUSD Its Default Stablecoin →
  3. No. 39 September 21–27, 2026 Six Banks Set Consumer Standards for Agentic Commerce as Mastercard Completes Denmark's First AI Agent Payment →
  4. No. 38 September 14–20, 2026 Google Expands Agentic Commerce Infrastructure for the 2026 Holiday Season →
  5. No. 37 August 31 – September 6, 2026 Anthropic Discloses Claude Alignment Failures and Launches Enterprise Frontier Safeguards; Google Ships Gemini 3.8 Flash →
  6. No. 36 August 24–30, 2026 Google Adds Hotel Booking to AI Mode With 10 OTA Partners as Anthropic Previews Physical-World Agent Standard →
  7. No. 35 August 17–23, 2026 Visa and Mastercard Co-Found 26-Member Agentic Payments Alliance as Walmart Ends NFC Holdout →
  8. No. 34 August 10–16, 2026 Google Ships Gemini 3.7 Flash and Hits 1 Billion Gemini Users as Anthropic Adds EU-Mandated Text Watermarks →
  9. No. 33 August 3–9, 2026 Google Deploys Agentic Food Ordering in Ask Maps; OpenAI Retires Atlas Browser and Launches GPT-5.6 →
  10. No. 32 July 27 – August 2, 2026 Anthropic Cybersecurity Evaluations Breach Three Real Organizations; EU AI Act Enforcement Begins →
  11. No. 31 July 20–26, 2026 Claude Opus 5 and Gemini 3.6 Flash Ship; Google Signs EU AI Act Transparency Code →
  12. No. 30 June 29 – July 5, 2026 Anthropic Launches Sonnet 5 and Restores Fable 5 as Multi-Company Jailbreak Framework Proposed →
  13. No. 29 June 22–28, 2026 Google Builds Computer Use into Gemini 3.5 Flash as Agent Pay Reaches Ukraine →
  14. No. 28 June 15–21, 2026 Shopify Catalog API Opens Billions of Products to AI Agents; Trump Says Anthropic Is No Longer a National Security Threat →
  15. No. 27 June 8–14, 2026 Mastercard and Visa Deploy Agent Payment Infrastructure on the Same Day; US Government Suspends Fable 5 →
  16. No. 26 June 1–7, 2026 Worldline, ING and Mastercard Complete Europe's First Live Agentic Payment; Anthropic Files IPO →
  17. No. 25 May 25–31, 2026 Anthropic Closes $65B Series H and Ships Claude Opus 4.8; Stripe Adds Bot Score for Agent Checkout →
  18. No. 24 May 18–24, 2026 Google Launches Universal Cart at I/O 2026; Anthropic Acquires Stainless →
  19. No. 23 May 11–17, 2026 Circle Launches Agent Stack; x402 Posts $24 Million in Monthly Agent Payments →
  20. No. 22 May 4–10, 2026 AWS Ships Managed Agent Payment Infrastructure; Shopify Reports 13-Fold AI Order Growth →
  21. No. 21 April 27 – May 3, 2026 FIDO Alliance Forms Agentic Commerce Working Groups; Stripe Extends Link to AI Agents →
  22. No. 20 April 20–26, 2026 Ulta Beauty Deploys Gemini Checkout; Google Publishes Prompt Injection Study →
  23. No. 19 April 6–12, 2026 Visa Launches Intelligent Commerce Connect for Agent Transaction Routing →
  24. No. 18 March 23–29, 2026 OpenAI Ends Instant Checkout; FCA Names Agentic Payments a 2026 Priority →
  25. No. 17 March 16–22, 2026 Visa Launches Agent-Commerce Certification Programme for European Merchants and Issuers →
  26. No. 16 March 9–15, 2026 US Court Issues Order in Amazon-Perplexity Agentic Purchasing Dispute →
  27. No. 15 March 2–8, 2026 Santander and Mastercard Complete Europe's First Agentic Payment Transaction →
  28. No. 14 February 23 – March 1, 2026 OpenID Foundation Opens Self-Certification for Agent Verifiable Credential Profiles →
  29. No. 13 February 9–15, 2026 Google Expands AI Mode Shopping to Broader US Audience →
  30. No. 12 January 26 – February 1, 2026 Mastercard Launches Enterprise Agent Suite and Completes Australia's First Agentic Payment →
  31. No. 11 January 5–11, 2026 Microsoft and Google Each Release Agent Commerce Infrastructure in Opening Week →
  32. No. 10 December 15–21, 2025 Visa Reports Milestone Transaction Volume for Secure AI Payments →
  33. No. 9 December 8–14, 2025 Linux Foundation Forms Agentic AI Infrastructure Forum; Stripe Releases Commerce Suite →
  34. No. 8 November 24–30, 2025 OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Shopping Mode; MCP Publishes Revised Specification →
  35. No. 7 November 17–23, 2025 Amazon and Perplexity Enable Consumer Purchases; Visa Documents Agent Threat Categories →
  36. No. 6 October 27 – November 2, 2025 Mastercard Agent Pay Goes Live at US Banks; PayPal Launches Agentic Commerce Services →
  37. No. 5 October 13–19, 2025 Visa Publishes TAP; Walmart and McKinsey Document Agentic Commerce Progress →
  38. No. 4 October 6–12, 2025 OpenID Foundation Publishes AI Agent Identity Framework Whitepaper →
  39. No. 3 September 29 – October 5, 2025 Stripe and OpenAI Launch ACP Instant Checkout →
  40. No. 2 September 15–21, 2025 Google Publishes AP2 Agent-to-Payment Protocol →
  41. No. 1 September 8–14, 2025 Mastercard Extends Agent Pay Developer Tooling →