{"id":849799,"date":"2026-09-16T13:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/849799\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T13:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:20:24","slug":"trump-administration-orders-kalshi-to-scrap-ai-price-tracker-over-national-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/849799\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration orders Kalshi to scrap AI price tracker over national security concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Commerce Department last month ordered Kalshi to take down one of its products tracking the price of AI compute, the crucial power from data centers that\u2019s driving the artificial intelligence boom.<\/p>\n<p>Commerce officials cited national security concerns when they told Kalshi to unpublish its <a href=\"https:\/\/news.kalshi.com\/p\/compute-forward-curves\" class=\"_linkEmbed_1pt7l_31\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">AI-compute future curve, said p<\/a>eople familiar with the matter. The product pulls together data from several markets that allow users to bet on the cost to rent Nvidia chips to create an overall picture of where AI compute costs are heading. Kalshi quietly complied, though many <a href=\"https:\/\/kalshi.com\/markets\/kxh100ms\/h100-monthly\/kxh100ms-27apr\" class=\"_linkEmbed_1pt7l_31\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">underlying markets<\/a> remain open for trading.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Commerce also pushed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees prediction and futures markets, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cftc.gov\/PressRoom\/PressReleases\/9286-26\" class=\"_linkEmbed_1pt7l_31\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">effectively freeze approval<\/a> of new compute contracts for 60 days, some of the people said. It was a rare intervention that surprised an industry used to White House enthusiasm for both AI and financial-market innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Kalshi declined to comment, while a Commerce spokesperson said the department \u201chas never once asked Kalshi to take down this market or any other markets.\u201d The CFTC didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment. \u201cThis story is false,\u201d a Commerce spokesman said. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear why Commerce is worried about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/05\/26\/2026\/the-future-of-ai-is-an-ai-futures-market\" class=\"_linkEmbed_1pt7l_31\" rel=\"no-referrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nascent market<\/a>, which aims to do for AI computing what oil futures do for crude \u2014 let buyers and sellers of compute lock in prices, and give traders a way to bet on where those prices go. One potential reason floated to Semafor by market participants is that compute futures could be manipulated to show a sharp drop in the cost of older chips, which might destabilize AI stocks and debt markets. Some of these markets are thinly traded, which could lead to volatility even without bad actors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Commerce Department last month ordered Kalshi to take down one of its products tracking the price&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-849799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}