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Visa and OpenAI integrate Visa's secure global payment directly into ChatGPT

NPR | By Alina Selyukh
Published June 16, 2026 at 4:46 AM EDT

Would you hand an AI chatbot your credit card? This week, Visa's deal with ChatGPT maker OpenAI became the latest step in the march toward a future where AI offers to shop on your behalf.

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Alina Selyukh is a business correspondent at NPR, where she follows the path of the retail and tech industries, tracking how America's biggest companies are influencing the way we spend our time, money, and energy.
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