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DeepSeek is Targeting Inference Costs

Reuters reported a DeepSeek chip project aimed at inference, the lower-margin work of serving models after training.

By The Signal · July 8, 2026

Illinois SB 315, Decoded

Illinois just wrote the first state law forcing frontier AI developers to prove their models won't kill 50 people, and it put a number on everything.

By The Signal · July 7, 2026

SB-2026-03-28-E | The Exit Queue

Anthropic eyes October IPO. SoftBank's $40B bridge loan. The triple public market wave approaching $1.4T combined valuation.

By The Signal · March 28, 2026 · Signal Brief