Spent a few months looking at agentic payments (x402, AP2, ACP, Visa/Mastercard's agent tokens). All five protocols answer "may this agent pay" mandates, spend caps, merchant scoping. None of them answer "why did it buy this.
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Mistral AI has outlined a Europe-centered infrastructure strategy built around regional inference control , open-model access and long-term compute capacity . The August 11, 2026 update introduces regional routing and a priority capacity tier, opens Mistral infrastructure to selected third-party...
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