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Visa and Mastercard Roll Out AI Shopping Agents
Google Expands Gemini With Built-In Image Editing Tools
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April 30, 2025
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Visa and Mastercard Roll Out AI Shopping Agents
Google Expands Gemini With Built-In Image Editing Tools
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Visa and Mastercard Roll Out AI Shopping Agents
Visa and Mastercard are rolling out AI-powered agents that shop and make purchases on behalf of users.
Visa on Wednesday introduced “Intelligent Commerce,” a system that lets AI find and buy items for consumers based on their preset preferences. Users set the limits, and the agent handles the rest, Visa said. The company is collaborating with Anthropic, IBM, Microsoft, Mistral AI, OpenAI, Perplexity, Samsung, Stripe, and others.
Mastercard, a day earlier, unveiled “Agent Pay,” which integrates payments into conversational AI. It allows users to receive shopping suggestions and complete purchases through AI-powered chats. The system can also recommend payment methods like Mastercard One Credential. Microsoft, Braintree, IBM, and Checkout.com are among its development partners.
PayPal and Amazon announced similar tools this week. Google, OpenAI, and Perplexity have also launched web agents that assist with online shopping.
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Google Expands Gemini With Built-In Image Editing Tools
Example of Gemini image editing
Google’s Gemini app now lets users edit both AI-generated and uploaded images directly within the chat interface.
The new tools began rolling out Wednesday in more than 45 languages. Users can prompt Gemini to modify backgrounds, add or remove objects, or make stylistic changes in a multi-step conversational flow. Both text and images appear in the same session.
The tools build on an experimental image editor launched in March via Google’s AI Studio, which drew criticism for removing watermarks. Google says Gemini’s native editor includes invisible watermarks and that it’s testing visible ones.
Gemini’s rollout follows similar upgrades to OpenAI’s image editing in ChatGPT earlier this month.
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