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Two Days After Its Biggest Launch, Moonshot Had to Apologise to Its Own Subscribers — and Hand Back a Week of Quota

AI-generated illustration of a smartphone showing an AI chat assistant interface with a usage quota meter draining in red, warning icons around it on a dark desk

The launch numbers were spectacular: 2.8 trillion parameters, a million-token memory, prices cut by a third. But within two days, the people paying for Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro were watching their quotas drain on tasks they never asked for and hitting rate limits on the ones they did. On Monday the company said sorry in unusually plain language — and gave everyone a week of usage back.

Elon Musk’s “Flying Car” Really Left the Ground — for Seconds. Here Is What the Viral Videos Leave Out

AI-generated illustration of a white two-seat electric sports car with rocket thrusters performing a barrel roll above a dark Texas test site at night, a curved steel loop ramp with red light strips behind it

The most-shared technology video of the month is real: at a Texas test site, Tesla's new Roadster barrel-rolled through the air on SpaceX thrusters while Elon Musk declared "Flying cars are real." But almost everything the viral clips imply around that moment — a car you can buy, a machine that flies like an aircraft, a Musk-owned flying car company — falls apart when you check the record.