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Exclusive: Trump administration orders Kalshi to scrap AI price tracker over national security concerns

RumorPolicySep 15, 2026

A Commerce Department spokesperson said the department "has never once asked Kalshi to take down this market," denying a Semafor report that officials ordered Kalshi to unpublish its AI-compute futures curve over national security concerns. The report also said Commerce pushed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to freeze new compute contract approvals for 60 days. Kalshi declined to comment; the CFTC did not respond. The product aggregates markets betting on Nvidia chip rental costs.

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