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Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI is setting an ambitious target of two billion dollars in annual revenue, riding the momentum of its Kimi models. Despite a slight dip in recent usage, OpenRouter data shows K three generating as many as three hundred billion tokens every single day — a number that signals serious scale and investor confidence.
Shifting to markets and accountability, Wired is reporting that the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission quietly launched three previously unreported investigations into trades on Polymarket, the prediction market platform. The probes cover bets tied to Biden pardons, the Iran conflict, and potential insider trading connected to Google — raising uncomfortable questions about who really has an edge when real money meets real information.
And on a note that stopped many readers cold, a former Obama administration national security official has reportedly suggested bombing Chinese data centers as a way to prevent the development of artificial general intelligence. The proposal, which also floated cyberattacks as a less escalatory alternative, cuts to the heart of a question the US hasn't fully answered — if the concern is about who can be trusted with AGI, that question doesn't stop at any one border.
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