Kimi K3 Ran Its Own Servers Out in Four Days

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Kimi K3 Ran Its Own Servers Out in Four Days

Three companies with no reason to coordinate hit the same wall in a single week: Moonshot AI paused new Kimi K3 subscriptions four days after launch because compute ran out, Sam Altman warned OpenAI users to expect service hiccups as agentic usage of GPT-5.6 Sol jumped 2.5x, and OpenAI quietly cut Codex's context window from 372,000 to 272,000 tokens — a change visible only in a merged code change on its public repository. Underneath all of it, Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times report five US tech giants carrying $1.65 trillion in debt tied to AI data-center financing, much of it structured off standard balance sheets. The models got cheaper faster than anyone's ability to serve them, which is why this week's most telling product news was plumbing: Ramp's public model router, Together AI's dedicated GPU cluster for YC startups, and easier MCP integrations. Elsewhere: the open-weight fight stopped being a China story as Thinking Machines shipped Inkling and Meta opened its Muse models, two studies landed on AI's effect on human and machine judgment, and a researcher reported finding a $500K-class WordPress vulnerability for $25 in API spend.

STORIES COVERED

Moonshot AI halts new Kimi K3 subscriptions as demand overwhelms its compute — Nikkei Asia | @kimi_moonshot

Kimi K3's runaway popularity is straining its serving economics — @deedydas on X

GPT-5.6 Sol usage surges so fast OpenAI warns of coming capacity hiccups — @sama on X

OpenAI quietly shrinks Codex's context window from 372K to 272K tokens — openai/codex Pull Request #33972

Big Tech's opaque AI data-center debt draws growing scrutiny — Nikkei Asia | Financial Times

Ramp opens its internal LLM router to the public — @vral on X

Together AI and Y Combinator launch dedicated GPU cluster for YC startups — Together AI Blog

MCP, AI's core interoperability protocol, gets easier to implement — TechCrunch

Chinese open-weight AI models spark strategic anxiety and a Trump-adviser public feud — TechCrunch | MIT Technology Review | @ylecun on X

Thinking Machines releases Inkling, a 975B open-weight multimodal model — Latent Space / AINews | huggingface/transformers v5.14.0

Meta's Muse image, video, and Spark models open up to public developers — @AIatMeta on X

Kimi K3 2.8T-A50B benchmark reception — Latent Space / AINews

Study finds AI advice makes people less ...