CipherTalk
Meg McNultyDecoding deeptech's biggest trends.
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The GPU you rent vs. the GPU that does work
There is now a real market for forward GPU prices. Kalshi's GPU rental markets had generated $4.4 million in notional volume by late August, while CME is preparing H100 and B200 rental-index futures for October 5 and ICE is preparing GPU-co...
Token prices measure the wrong thing
Late July, Moonshot published the full weights for Kimi K3, free to anyone with the hardware to run them. Three days later OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna by 80 percent, on a model it had shipped twenty-one days earlier.
But cheaper tokens don’t n...
Scarcity Is a Systems Architect
What a GPU-poor lab’s serving stack reveals about misaligned goals in US AI infrastructure
On July 9, 2026, SemiAnalysis published a line that aged badly in record time. In a report on Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, the research firm wrote...
The Critical Infrastructure Squeeze
Three days after Anthropic launched the strongest AI models in the world, the US government ordered them shut off. Fable 5 and Mythos 5 went dark on June 12. Two weeks later, Commerce quietly restored Mythos for about a hundred US organizat...
Sovereign Compute
I spent the years before starting Cosmic close enough to the defense and national security side of technology to watch what dependency looks like when it sets in. You watch critical systems be built on someone else’s stack, you watch the im...
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