Visa's AI-Driven Commerce Initiative and the Claude Squad Tool for Managing AI Agents

Visa is pioneering an initiative called Visa Intelligent Commerce, aimed at enabling AI agents to autonomously conduct financial transactions, potentially transforming everyday purchasing by integrating AI platforms from companies like Anthropic, Microsoft, and OpenAI. To address security concerns, Visa is deploying "AI-Ready Cards" with tokenized credentials designed to protect sensitive data and ensure AI agents operate within user-defined spending limits. While these agents could handle tasks like grocery shopping or travel bookings, human involvement is expected to remain essential for complex transactions, such as luxury purchases. The initiative seeks to streamline e-commerce as Visa collaborates with AI developers to overcome security and payment authorization challenges, positioning the company as a central player in the evolution of AI-driven commerce. (Source)

Claude Squad is a terminal application designed to manage multiple instances of Claude Code, Codex, and other local agents, like Aider, within separate workspaces to facilitate multi-tasking. Key features include background task completion, management of instances within a single terminal window, and isolated git workspaces to prevent conflicts. Installation can be easily done through a command line script or by building from source. Users can customize their settings and integrate AI assistants by setting environment variables or modifying configuration files. The interface uses tmux for session isolation and git worktrees for code separation, offering a TUI for navigation. The tool is distributed under the AGPL-3.0 license. (Source)