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Your AI Assistant Is About to Be Able to Swipe Your Card
Something happened recently that made me stop and think about it for a long time.
March 17, 2026 — that's yesterday — Sam Altman's World (formerly Worldcoin) launched something called AgentKit. Simply put: it lets your AI Agent prove "there's a real human behind me."
At the same time, Coinbase launched an AI Agent-specific wallet in February, and Visa and Mastercard are racing to define standards for how Agents pay online.
