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According to PaymentsJournal, stablecoin payment infrastructure provider PhotonPay announced a comprehensive upgrade to its payment capabilities, officially moving towards the new paradigm of Agentic Payments. At the core of this transformation is the shift in finance from "directive" to "intent-centric," enabling AI agents to autonomously plan and execute complex financial pathways.It is reported that PhotonPay has divided its system into three main modules: global network layer, core execution layer, and intelligent decision-making layer. AI agents can automatically complete the entire process of procurement triggers, payment path optimization, dynamic exchange rate optimization, and compliance review based on preset goals, achieving machine-to-machine (M2M) cross-border capital flow, covering over 200 countries and regions, and supporting real-time processing of financial decisions.In terms of market prospects, McKinsey predicts that by 2030, the global Agentic Commerce driven by AI agents will reach a scale of $3 trillion to $5 trillion, which also provides important market endorsement for PhotonPay's strategic layout.

Claude announced the launch of Managed Agents, a feature that helps developers quickly build and deploy large-scale AI agents on the Claude platform, now entering the public testing phase. By combining performance-optimized AI agent runtimes with infrastructure suitable for production environments, AI agents can go from prototype to launch in just a few days, increasing the speed of building and deploying agents by 10 times.It provides managed infrastructure that automatically handles complex tasks such as sandboxing, error recovery, memory, and checkpoints, allowing users to simply define tasks, tools, and guardrails.