merchant orchestration

PayPal’s purchase of Cymbio is less a one-off bolt-on and more a deliberate, time‑boxed bet: the company is trying to buy itself a seat in a commerce stack that is quickly reorganizing around AI agents, and the clock on whether that bet will pay off looks to be counted in quarters, not years...

PayPal’s purchase of Cymbio is not a neat defensive tweak — it’s an explicit pivot from “payment button” to an attempt at becoming a plumbing and distribution node inside a fundamentally different commerce stack built for AI agents, and the clock on preserving PayPal’s independence in an...