Walmart unveils its Agent Gateway, a new MCP server to help users' approved AI agents shop its website, and dedicated Agent Profiles with special "terms" for AI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Walmart’s new Agent Gateway and Agent Profiles signal that agentic commerce is moving from experiment to operating model, creating a potential new sales channel where approved AI agents can shop and transact on behalf of customers. For CIOs and IT leaders, the strategic takeaway is that digital commerce platforms will increasingly need machine-readable interfaces, stronger policy controls, and clearer identity/authorization models for non-human users.