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Aggregators are useful for awareness, not for payload truth.","entities":["google","ap2"],"protocols":["ap2"],"topics":["agent-payments","methodology"],"sourceURLs":["https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/16/google-launches-new-protocol-for-agent-driven-purchases/"],"sourceTypes":["trade_press"],"evidenceTier":"TIER_C","confidence":0.48,"corroborationCount":0,"marketData":null,"changeVsPrevious":null,"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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