Analysis ·
AI payments: the agent only buys what has stopped being a brand
Original title, in French: “Paiement par IA : l'agent n'achète que ce qui a cessé d'être une marque”
- Publication
- Journal du Net (France)
- Author
- Pascal Malotti
- Published on
- 7 October 2026 · read in the page structured data
Summary
The article analyses the first payment initiated by an artificial intelligence agent in France, announced on 7 September by Revolut and Visa: the purchase of antivirus software for less than 50 euros on the Cleverbridge platform. The author notes that the service is not yet open to Revolut customers, and that Santander, which claimed an equivalent first in Europe with Mastercard in March, is still at the testing stage. He cites the Baromètre du numérique, according to which nearly one in two French people already use generative AI, but 52% say they are wary of it. The article also discusses the issues of product data and the agentic payment protocol AP2, backed by Visa and Mastercard, which researchers have shown can be manipulated.
Summary based on the full text of the article.
Read the article on Journal du Net →Figures cited
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50 %
share of French people who use generative AI
France
« Près d’un Français sur deux utilise l’IA générative, mais 52 % s’en disent méfiants, selon le Baromètre du numérique. »
Source: Baromètre du numérique
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52 %
share of French people who say they are wary of generative AI
France
« Près d’un Français sur deux utilise l’IA générative, mais 52 % s’en disent méfiants, selon le Baromètre du numérique. »
Source: Baromètre du numérique
Classification
- Country
- France
- Company size
- All sizes
- Industries
- Banking, insurance, asset management, finance departments · Retail and distribution, e-commerce
- Companies
- Mastercard (cited), Revolut (supplier), Cleverbridge (cited), Santander (cited), Visa (supplier)
- Keywords
- agentic payment, AI agents, agentic commerce, payment methods, trust, product catalogue
Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to Journal du Net and its author. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.