ChatGPT Gets Your Card: Visa Unleashes Bot Shoppers On San Francisco
Visa has embedded its payments network into ChatGPT, letting AI agents buy for users while banks and merchants raise fraud and fee questions. The shift moves agentic shopping from experiments toward network rails.
Meta’s Rogue AI Hands 20,000 Instagram Accounts To Hackers
Meta says a flaw in its AI account‑recovery tool let attackers reset passwords and hijack 20,225 Instagram accounts; high‑profile handles were briefly taken. The company has disabled the tool and is securing impacted users.
Silicon Valley High-Fliers Smashed As Chip Meltdown Erases $1 Trillion
A sudden selloff in semiconductor stocks erased more than $1 trillion Friday, pulling down Nvidia, Micron and other AI-era winners. Markets turned volatile as investors reassessed expectations.
Redwood City Ad Tech Darling Slashes IPO Dreams but Jumps Back on Runway
After pausing in February, Redwood City ad‑tech Liftoff Mobile relaunched a smaller IPO that would raise about $399M. The offering will test appetite for AI‑driven ad tech.
Google Parent Gears Up For $80 Billion AI War Chest In Bay Area Backyard
Bloomberg reports Alphabet is lining up an $80B equity program — ATM sales, underwritten offerings and a Berkshire‑backed private placement — to pay for massive AI buildout.
Feds Move To Choke Off Nvidia China Chip Workarounds
The Commerce Department closed a year‑old loophole on Sunday, saying advanced Nvidia and AMD chips sold to companies headquartered in China now require export licenses even when bought through overseas affiliates. The move tightens export checks and could complicate shipments for Bay Area chip and data‑center firms.
D.C. Power Play: White House Quietly OKs $9 Billion Nvidia Chip Binge
The White House approved roughly $9 billion to buy Nvidia superchips and build the liquid‑cooled data centers that run them, aiming to close an intelligence‑community compute gap. The move raises procurement, timing and civil‑liberties questions as agencies race to deploy frontier AI on classified networks.
Silicon Valley Nuke Startup Tapped to Turn Cold War Plutonium into Power
Oklo says it has been picked by the DOE for talks to turn Cold War plutonium into reactor fuel while critics warn of serious proliferation and safety concerns. The company will partner with newcleo and says strict safeguards would apply.
San Jose Braces As Kawasaki And Nvidia Plot Robotics Lab With Big Tech In Tow
Kawasaki and Nvidia are reportedly lining up a San Jose robotics R&D hub to test medical and mobility robots with partners including Microsoft and Fujitsu.












