Stratechery: Kimi K3 has Wall Street and Washington alarmed, but Thompson says cybersecurity is the real gap

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Ben Thompson's weekly roundup covers Chinese models and frontier futures, arguing that despite Kimi K3 being 'a very good model' and sparking alarm from Wall Street to the U.S. government, the frontier labs' advantage is still real. He redirects the panic, identifying U.S. cybersecurity policy — not model capability — as the actual critical vulnerability. The issue also covers the OpenAI-Hugging Face sandboxing incident, which Thompson reads as more encouraging than the coverage suggested.