Google Shakes Up Cryptocurrency, Digital Payments With AI Agents Protocol

BREAKING: Futures Fall As Many Hot Stocks Continue Slide Google-parent Alphabet (GOOGL) is shaking up digital payments, cryptocurrency and emerging artificial intelligence-based shopping applications with a new "AI agent" technology. Google stock has climbed 30% in 2025. Many tech companies are focused on autonomous, goal-driven AI "agents" that complete tasks on their own. One of the big applications is expected to be online shopping on the behalf of consumers. Google last week announced a new Agent Paymen ...