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 ...