Google and Mastercard Donate Agent Payments Protocol to FIDO Alliance — 'Human Not Present' Payment Standard

Google Blog / Hacker News·high signal

Google is donating the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2 v0.2) to the FIDO Alliance, introducing 'Human Not Present' autonomous agent transactions. Mastercard co-developed Verifiable Intent, a tamper-proof log of user-authorized agent actions, also donated to FIDO. Two new FIDO working groups launched: Agentic Authentication (delegated actions with phishing-resistant auth) and Payments (agent-initiated commerce specs). First industry-wide standard for how AI agents spend money.