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MoonPay is making a bold push to give AI assistants the ability to move real money. Its new PayBox product embeds a crypto wallet directly inside Claude and ChatGPT, letting those models execute payments autonomously on your behalf. The pitch is convenience with guardrails — you set the limits, the AI handles the transaction.
Meanwhile, the US government is betting on light to solve AI's infrastructure problem. Under the CHIPS Act, GlobalFoundries is set to receive three hundred million dollars to develop silicon photonics technology, the kind that moves data using light rather than electricity. In exchange, Uncle Sam takes a one percent stake in the company, valued at roughly two hundred sixty nine million dollars. The goal is faster, cooler, more efficient datacenter networking as AI demand keeps climbing.
And Sam Altman has a theory about why AI hasn't delivered the four-day workweek its boosters promised. His answer, offered without apparent irony: people simply love to work. Critics might suggest the more honest explanation involves who controls the productivity gains and who doesn't. That debate, it's safe to say, is just getting started.
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