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title: "AI Agents Spending Money Online? New Research Says Not Really"
date: 2026-09-13
source: http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6aa6ad2ea69f4eb7a79258353b816cc3&url=https%3a%2f%2fdecrypt.co%2f378103%2fai-agents-spending-money-research&c=6950721215777727739&mkt=en-us
description: "TRM examined roughly $52.7 million across 198.9 million settlements using the x402 protocol. Most of it isn’t coming from AI agents, it says."
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# AI Agents Spending Money Online? New Research Says Not Really

TRM examined roughly $52.7 million across 198.9 million settlements using the x402 protocol. Most of it isn’t coming from AI agents, it says.

*Published: 2026-09-13*