PayPal and Google Seal Partnership to Enable AI-Led Commerce

PayPal Holdings Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google have forged an online-shopping partnership that will combine their respective payments and artificial intelligence tools for transactions.

The tie-up announced on Wednesday will add PayPal checkouts to several Google products and also create an artificial intelligence collaboration to help sellers showcase their wares to specific customers and prepare for a world where autonomous AI agents shop on behalf of consumers.

The companies are working to establish standards to ensure merchants, consumers and autonomous AI agents are operating with sufficient risk controls and safety features. The partnership comes days after Google unveiled a ...