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This is in-chat retail, not an API micropayment 402.","whyItMatters":"Agent commerce split: consumer checkout (ACP) versus machine API metering (x402/MPP). zFinia covers both without collapsing them.","entities":["openai","stripe","acp"],"protocols":["acp"],"topics":["agent-commerce","marketplaces","payment-rails"],"sourceURLs":["https://openai.com/index/buy-it-in-chatgpt/"],"sourceTypes":["official_announcement"],"evidenceTier":"TIER_A","confidence":0.84,"corroborationCount":0,"marketData":null,"changeVsPrevious":{"resourcesDelta":0,"distinctPayersDelta":0,"callsDelta":0,"newEntrants":0,"removedResources":0,"topFamilyChanged":false,"whatChanged":[]},"freshness":"live","publicAnalysis":false,"usageRights":"Caller may use returned JSON for their own systems. A single call does not grant redistribution of the full zFinia corpus as a competing archive. 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