Stripe Just Gave AI Agents a Way to Pay Anything
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Your AI agent can browse, decide, and now pay — without a human clicking confirm. Stripe just shipped the Machine Payments Protocol, an open standard that lets agents transact with any business that's opted in. Here's the entire server-side integration: stripe.PaymentIntent.create — amount 1000, currency usd, payment_method_types MPP. That's it. Your service now accepts payments from autonomous agents — Anthropic, OpenAI, any agent with an MPP wallet. The magic is in the protocol: agents authenticate, declare intent, and pay — all programmatically. You get full audit trails and fraud signals. No card numbers floating around, no human in the loop. If you're building an API that agents will call, you need this now. MPP launched in March and already has Visa, Mastercard, Anthropic, and OpenAI as partners. Stripe docs link in bio.