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Adyen Launches New Platform to Connect Merchants With Conversational Artificial Intelligence Systems

Amsterdam-based payments company Adyen unveiled Adyen Agentic, a suite of application programming interfaces designed to help businesses sell products seamlessly across multiple conversational AI platforms.
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