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

  • Lily Hay Newman--Wired
  • published date: 2026-04-28 13:00:00 UTC

AI agents may soon be buying your stuff for you. The FIDO Alliance has teamed up with Google and Mastercard to try to ensure that shopping in the near future isn't a complete disaster.

Between malware, online impersonation, and account takeovers, there are enough digital security problems out there as it is. And with the rise of agentic AI, more activity is being carried out by age… [+3869 chars]