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Stablecoin Firms Bet Big on AI Agent Payments That Barely Exist

Circle Internet Group Inc. and Stripe Inc. are racing to build payments systems for a world that doesn’t exist yet — one where autonomous AI agents transact millions of times a day, settling in stablecoins instead of swiping credit cards.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-07/stablecoin-firms-bet-big-on-ai-agent-payments-that-barely-exist