PayPal has announced a partnership with Bilt Rewards to facilitate rent and mortgage payments through Venmo, set to launch in early 2026. This integration will allow users to manage rent payments like regular bills and earn rewards, leveraging Bilt's existing connections with over 40,000 merchants and 70% of leading U.S. property managers. In a separate initiative, PayPal is collaborating with Mastercard to enhance AI-driven payment solutions via the Agent Pay platform. This platform employs tokenization and AI assistants to ensure secure and efficient transactions, marking a significant step in PayPal's expansion of AI capabilities in the financial sector.