OpenAI, Visa Team Up to Let AI Agents Make Purchases Online

OpenAI and Visa Inc. are now allowing artificial-intelligence agents to make purchases online after users give their permission, part of an expansion of a previously announced pact between the two technology companies.

Visa’s payment services will be integrated into OpenAI’s platform so online retailers can accept agent-driven transactions, according to a statement Wednesday. A customer could direct an AI agent to pay a bill or buy paper towels, for example. OpenAI’s ChatGPT is the best-known artificial intelligence platform among consumers.

“AI will transform commerce more profoundly than the internet or mobile technology ever did,” Jack Forestell, Visa’s chief product ...