{
  "id": 631592,
  "title": "From chatbots to payment agents: AI’s next role in SEA commerce",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/from-chatbots-to-payment-agents-ais-next-role-in-sea-commerce",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-12T03:57:19.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "e27",
    "slug": "e27",
    "url": "https://e27.co/from-chatbots-to-payment-agents-ais-next-role-in-sea-commerce-20260812/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "For years, artificial intelligence in business has been discussed in sweeping terms: faster decisions, fewer manual tasks, smarter operations. But in payments, where errors can be expensive and compliance failures can be severe, the harder question has always been more practical: what does AI actually do once it is plugged into real workflows? A new […] The post From chatbots to payment agents:…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}