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Forter reports agentic orders increasing more than fourfold.

Forter introduced new capabilities for identifying authorized AI shopping agents, managing their access, and enabling secure checkout.

The company reports that agentic orders across its network have increased more than fourfold since August.

They also report increasing automated fraud, reinforcing the need to distinguish legitimate agents from malicious automation.

There's gonna be more.

They are more and more increasingly going and shopping on behalf of their users.

And Forter is reporting a more than fourfold increase here in, uh, actually this is a fourfold increase in the orders from agents.

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A recent Visa survey found that 64% of respondents expect to use AI shopping agents within two years, and 56% already-- would already let AI agents search and compare products.

According to Mi-Michael Leibblatt, who runs an AI commerce prop firm called Forter, agentic traffic more than tripled in a month since Muse and Instinct were launched.

In its first week alone, Muse made up 48% of all agentic orders on Forter.

"Personal agents are useful because they can take an arbitrary input and act," said Ian Rogers, Chief Human, Human Agency Officer at cybersecurity company Ledger.

But that's exa-exactly where the danger comes in.