How payment tokens let an AI agent pay without seeing your card

Illustration: A steel vault wall with a sealed door and a small hatch; a green tag rests in the hatch tray, standing for the payment token that replaces the card number. — Illustration made with AI for ai notis. Made with AI.

What it shows

A steel vault wall with a sealed door and a small hatch; a green tag rests in the hatch tray, standing for the payment token that replaces the card number.

Its labels

New: A token replaces the card account number
The token should not work beyond one merchant, device or scenario

The story

How payment tokens let an AI agent pay without seeing your card · 14 Nov 2026

An illustration is never a picture of what happened. Drawn on 13 Nov 2026.

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