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The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has postponed efforts to create a market for AI computing futures, the Financial Times reports, citing concerns about price manipulation.
Why it mattersThe delay puts a brake on exchanges’ attempts to make GPU computing a tradable asset. A transparent market could give data-centre builders and lenders a way to manage price swings, but reliable prices are rather important when you are trying to build a market around them.
Discuss: Should regulators prioritise preventing manipulation, even if that slows the creation of a public market for AI compute?
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