OpenAI's Agentic-Infrastructure Push: Acquires Ona, Partners With Visa for Agent Payments

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OpenAI agreed to acquire cloud platform Ona — which provides secure cloud environments for long-running, autonomous agent workflows — folding it into the Codex team so agents can run tasks 'while your laptop is closed.' In parallel, OpenAI announced a Visa partnership integrating Visa's payments network, tokenization, and security so AI agents can initiate purchases on a user's behalf. Together they signal OpenAI building the execution-and-commerce substrate for autonomous agents, not just the model — the same agent-runtime + agentic-payments stack independent builders are now assembling by hand.