In TrendsStocks To WatchStock MarketNifty OutlookBank Strike DeferredGold and SilverAs AI agents learn to spend, are we heading towards a machine economy?As AI systems move beyond answering prompts and start taking actions on users’ behalf, a new layer of infrastructure is emerging around them, as highlighted in BlackRock’s “The Machine-Native Economy”. From payments and model routing to computing power, companies are beginning to build the systems that could allow software to transact with the wider digital economy.By Asmi Saxena September 29, 2026, 12:01:10 AM IST (Published)(Photo Credit : AI Generated )For a long time, artificial intelligence has largely been about answering questions. Increasingly, it is about doing things.AI agents are being built to plan tasks, use external tools and carry out actions on a user's behalf, raiseing a fair question: if an AI agent can act independently, how does it pay for what it needs?BlackRock's latest digital assets report puts that question at the centre of what it calls the “machine-native economy”. The report describes AI as “machine-native intelligence” and digital assets as “machine-native money”, arguing that the two are beginning to converge as AI systems gain the ability to interact with economic networks.The idea is already starting to show…
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