So my AI can shop for me?

Sort of — and the 'sort of' is worth getting right. What's real today: your AI can pay for things directly — services, data, digital goods, compute — at places built to accept this kind of payment. What's not real yet: it can't browse a regular store and check out with your Visa. The way it works is you give your AI a small digital wallet with an allowance you control — think giving a teenager a prepaid card, except the limit actually holds no matter what they try. The AI spends inside that allowance without bothering you for each purchase, and the money moves in digital dollars over a network built for payments this small. Right now the catalog skews digital and technical; the everyday-shopping layer is being built by very large companies and will arrive in waves rather than all at once. So: real capability, early catalog, honest trajectory.