Your AI assistant can already do a lot: it reads, writes, searches and even codes. Next up? Learning to pay (at least that's the idea). It may look as minor, but it's not. Pretty much everything online that's really useful has a price tag: data, maps, search, computing power, models, tools from others. Right now, an AI can only use these if a person sets up an account → inserts an API key → adds a credit card. The idea of agentic payments is about taking humans out of that loop (safely).
