Mastercard Launches AI Agent Payments After Successful Pilots

• Mastercard demonstrated an AI agent running a sample ad campaign at Cloudflare Connect.
• The AI agent handled nine payments to two merchants within a single approved budget.
• Mastercard opened early access to Agent Pay for Machines after successful pilots with Coinbase, Base, Cloudflare, and other partners.
• Mastercard introduced a new Agent Detection Score, a feature no other card network has offered before.