Episode 40. Today the floor fell out from under the price of intelligence: Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 — a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model — landed fourth on the global leaderboard with downloadable weights, pushing frontier-class reasoning toward commodity pricing. We also cover the Model Context Protocol going stateless so AI agents finally deploy at revenue scale; BMW moving its car configurator inside ChatGPT as the buying journey shifts into the chat window; the EU AI Act's Article 50 disclosure rules going enforceable August 2, and why the brand that publishes AI media — not the model that made it — owns the compliance burden; Alterion's Draco control plane for governing enterprise agent fleets; and China standing up WAICO, a rival AI-governance bloc that fractures the global compliance map right as Europe's deadline hits.
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