Google just built the infrastructure for agentic commerce

Industry players say agentic commerce is the next big revolution in retail. I’ve spent my career in payments infrastructure and watched the same pattern repeat with every new commerce technology. It gets built on rails that weren’t designed for it, and nobody notices until something breaks. Agentic commerce is next in line, and the rail about to break is payments. Almost everyone in this conversation ignores a problem sitting in every transaction: the payment glitch. That’s when a...