Alipay wants AI agents to handle your payments. But who's really in control?
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Alipay has presented a new payment infrastructure oriented to the so-called “genetic economy”, a model in which assistants and artificial intelligence agents can run purchases and transactions autonomously on behalf of users. The Chinese platform, owned by Ant Group, announced the launch of AI Wallet and Token Pay, two of which are [...] The post Alipay speeds up trade with AI Wallet and Token Pay for automated payments appeared first on Ecommer…
Alipay wants AI agents to handle your payments. But who's really in control?
Alipay’s new AI Wallet raises a question worth asking: when your AI agent spends your money, what oversight do you actually have? Token Pay signals Alipay is positioning itself as the default payment backbone for AI model companies, a quiet but significant land grab in the emerging AI economy. When Meituan launched its Xiaomei AI agent in late 2025, executives described it internally not as a chatbot but as an orchestrator, one that could take a…
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