Aug 18 2026
Alipay switches on a full-stack agentic commerce platform, letting AI agents order and pay at merchants including KFC and Luckin Coffee inside a billion-user wallet.
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Merchant skills plug into the Ah Bao consumer , connected to phone brands covering 70% of the Chinese market and 16 automakers. AI-agent payments passed 120 million transactions in a week earlier this year.
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