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The Race Is on to Keep AI Agents From Running Wild With Your Credit Cards
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technology1d ago

The Race Is on to Keep AI Agents From Running Wild With Your Credit Cards

https://www.wired.com/story/the-race-is-on-to-keep-ai-agents-from-running-wild-with-your-credit-cards/
Wired.com
  • The FIDO Alliance, Google, and Mastercard will form two working groups to set AI agent payment standards.
  • The goal is cryptographic proof and privacy-preserving tools to confirm agent actions reflect user intent.
  • AP2 and Verifiable Intent are open-source tools that support cryptographic verification of user authorization.
  • Industry leaders say timelines must accelerate to keep pace with rapid agentic AI adoption.
  • The groups will build practical examples and use cases to ensure real-world adoption at scale.
  • The collaboration aims to prevent agent hijacking and improve accountability in AI transactions.
  • The initiative underscores trust and safety as essential to broader AI-powered commerce.
  • The effort includes open-source tools to jump-start standard development.
  • Experts say rapid standards development is needed as agentic AI accelerates.
  • The goal is to balance user privacy with verifiable authorization across platforms.
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Arizona AG urges payment companies to block illegal vape sales
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politics1d ago

Arizona AG urges payment companies to block illegal vape sales

https://www.azfamily.com/2026/04/28/arizona-ag-urges-payment-companies-block-illegal-vape-sales/https://www.fox5vegas.com/2026/04/28/ford-pressures-credit-card-companies-block-purchase-illegal-vaping-products/https://www.kolotv.com/2026/04/28/ford-pressures-credit-card-companies-block-purchase-illegal-vaping-products/
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  • Nevada and other states' attorneys general urge major credit-card networks to block payments for illegal vaping, expanding a nationwide push to shield youths from vaping.
  • A coalition including 25 attorneys general and New York officials requests specific firms to stop processing unlawful e-cigarette transactions, aiming to cut off funding for illicit sales.
  • Officials frame payment networks as the financial backbone enabling illegal vape sales to minors, underscoring the need to sever funding flows.
  • The coalition notes many online retailers fail to meet age-verification, registration and sales-law requirements under federal and state rules.
  • Guidance draws on the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act to align online-vape sales with age-verification and registration standards.
  • States have pursued lawsuits and referred violators to federal authorities for listing on noncompliant registries and enforcement actions.
  • Letters seek meetings to discuss blocking noncompliant merchants and processors from using payment networks.
  • New York-led effort extends collaboration with numerous states to push stronger oversight of online-vape sales by payment providers.
  • Past government-private sector cooperation is cited as having reduced illegal tobacco sales, informing the vape-focused push.
  • The coalition emphasizes protecting communities by cutting off money flows to bad actors and keeping unauthorized vaping products out of circulation.
  • Ford’s Nevada-led initiative mirrors a broader national effort to curb illegal vaping through financial-transaction controls.
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