AWS Just Gave AI Agents Their Own Wallets
There’s a moment in every tech shift where an announcement lands and you think: oh, so that’s where this is all going. Amazon Web Services just launched Bedrock AgentCore Payments — infrastructure built with Coinbase and Stripe that lets AI agents autonomously spend money. Real money. USDC stablecoins. In real time. No human approval required. Your AI agent discovers a paid API, negotiates payment via the x402 protocol, executes a stablecoin transaction, and keeps working — all inside a single reasoning loop. No credit card form. No invoice. Bots paying bots, fractions of a cent at a time. ...