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Meta Opens a Metered Muse API

Muse Spark 1.1 lists at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens through Meta's proprietary model API.

By The Signal · July 11, 2026 · Signal Brief

Agent Gateways, Defined

Enterprise teams are putting one control point between autonomous agents, tools, credentials, and model calls.

By The Signal · July 10, 2026 · Glossary

What an agentic threat actor is

Sysdig coined "agentic threat actor" this week for JADEPUFFER, and the definition is already outrunning any page that pins it down.

By The Signal · July 10, 2026 · Glossary

Beijing May Restrict Chinese Model Exports

Reuters says China's commerce ministry has discussed limits on overseas access to advanced models from Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai.

By The Signal · July 9, 2026 · Signal Brief

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