**[Visa, Mastercard, Ant International Join Forces: AI Agent Payments Also Need "ID"]** Beating AI News Flash: Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard have announced a collaboration to advance KYA (Know Your Agent) mutual recognition. KYA can be understood as "identity authentication" for AI Agents: confirming who they are, who they represent, and allowing payment networks to determine whether they can be trusted. The three companies aim to streamline this authentication system. In the future, once an Agent completes verification within one system, its identity and trust information can be recognized across other payment networks without needing to register and verify from scratch at each one. [Original Link]