Can AI agents buy at Google Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)?
PilotProtocol
Pilot means a limited test, or access the company has not opened to everyone. Google's open payments protocol records what a person allowed an agent to buy, including some purchases the person pre-approves and does not watch.
Note on this rowOn April 28, 2026 Google donated AP2 to the FIDO Alliance and released version 0.2. FIDO is still standardizing it. Version 0.2 is not a finished FIDO standard.
Where does this come from?
As of . Source: Google Cloud blog.
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