Would You Give An AI Agent Your Credit Card?

This is episode four of the Agents Unleashed podcast — the show that filters the signal from the noise in the fast-paced world of agentic AI.This episode dives into a big week for AI payments and open source: Visa, MasterCard, and Coinbase all announced new tools to enable AI agents to make and receive payments, Mark Zuckerberg shared insights on Meta’s open source strategy and a flurry of new models from companies like Alibaba, Microsoft, and NVIDIA are pushing the boundaries of what open source can do. We also look at a new report on open source AI adoption from McKinsey, Mozilla, and the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation.Resources mentioned in this episode:Visa and Mastercard's payments for AI agents: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/30/visa-and-mastercard-unveil-ai-powered-shopping/Coinbase’s HTTP 402 proposal: https://www.coinbase.com/en-sg/developer-platform/discover/launches/x402Meta’s open source strategy and Zuckerberg interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYXeQbTuVl0McKinsey x Mozilla x McGovern report: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/open-source-technology-in-the-age-of-aiAlibaba’s Qwen 3: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen3NVIDIA Parakeet: https://venturebeat.com/ai/nvidia-launches-fully-open-source-transcription-ai-model-parakeet-tdt-0-6b-v2-on-hugging-face/?utm_source=chatgpt.comMicrosoft Fi4 Models: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/one-year-of-phi-small-language-models-making-big-leaps-in-ai/?utm_source=chatgpt.comJetBrains Mellum: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/30/jetbrains-releases-mellum-an-open-ai-coding-model/DeepSeek Prover V2: https://arxiv.org/html/2504.21801v1Agents Unleashed is more than a podcast — it's the premier global event series for AI agents. With 77+ speakers and over 2,500 attendees, events have been hosted in 6+ cities worldwide. The next one is happening June 30th in Cannes, France. Learn more at https://olas.network/agents-unleashed.Sponsored by Olas — the best way to own and monetize your AI agents. Explore more at https://www.olas.network.Theme music: "Forward" by Grand Project on Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/users/grand_project-19033897/