News May 8, 2026
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AWS Gives AI Agents Their Own Wallets with AgentCore Payments, Built on Coinbase and Stripe
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now includes a managed payments layer that lets autonomous agents pay for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other agents in real time using stablecoin micropayments. Coinbase provides x402 wallet infrastructure, Stripe handles fiat on-ramps via Privy, and AWS enforces spending controls at the infrastructure layer. Warner Bros. Discovery is already testing agent-driven commerce for premium content.