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OpenAI plugs Visa into ChatGPT so AI agents can shop and pay at any Visa merchant

OpenAI is wiring a payment network into ChatGPT. Under an expanded partnership announced at the Visa Payments Forum on Wednesday, AI agents inside OpenAI’s products will be able to shop and pay on a user’s behalf at, in principle, any of the more than 175 million merchant locations that accept Visa, once the user grants permission.

The pitch is simple: tell ChatGPT to find wireless headphones under $150 or reorder paper towels, and the agent completes the purchase. Visa supplies the plumbing, tokenised card credentials bound to a specific agent, real-time authorisation, agent identification, and fraud monitoring, the same machinery it runs across more than 300 billion transactions a year.

The user sets the limits: spending caps, approval thresholds, and merchant restrictions, so a human stays in command, at least at first.

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