Beyond the Buy Button: Google and FIDO Alliance Launch AP2 to Power the Era of Autonomous AI Shopping

Google has donated the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) to the FIDO Alliance and published AP2 v0.2, introducing unattended “Human Not Present” payments and a “Verifiable Intent” ledger developed with Mastercard to provide auditable user directives; the move aims to standardize AI-driven autonomous transactions and accelerate industry adoption through an open, platform-agnostic framework.