Subscription or metered: what new model pricing means for AI budgets
Muse Wonder launched with both API prices and subscription-only access. How the two pricing models differ, and what that means for controlling AI spend.
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Researched articles on AI coding tools, agents, MCP, LLM cost, governance and security, and engineering practice.
The harness sets the bill: why the same model costs more in some agents
New coding-agent benchmarks show one model scoring and costing very differently across agent harnesses. What that means for evaluating AI coding tools.
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The EU AI Act after the AI Omnibus: the dates that changed
The AI Omnibus moved the EU AI Act's high-risk deadlines and simplified AI literacy. The new dates, what enforcement looks like, and what to do now.
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Sandboxing coding agents: what the built-in sandboxes do and don't cover
Claude Code and Codex both ship operating-system sandboxes for agent commands. What they restrict, what runs outside them, and settings worth enforcing.
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Small open-weight models as coding sub-agents: reading the Mellum2.1 release
JetBrains released Mellum2.1, a 12B open-weight model built for coding sub-agents. What it claims, what to verify, and where small models fit.
Prompt caching: the AI cost control most teams don't measure
Cached input costs a tenth of the normal price on major APIs. How prompt caching works, why coding agents depend on it, and how to see whether yours hits.
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Observing AI coding tools with OpenTelemetry: what you can measure today
Claude Code, Codex and Copilot now emit OpenTelemetry. What the GenAI conventions cover, what the tools actually send, and how to start measuring.
MCP servers keep trusting the wrong URLs: what recent advisories show
Advisories from Splunk, AWS, Google and the Rust MCP SDK share one pattern: a tool builds a request or command from input it shouldn't trust.
When model output becomes code: three agent framework advisories from October
Flowise, Langflow and PraisonAI fixed flaws where prompt injection led to code execution. The shared mistake, and what to check in your own agents.
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The stateless MCP specification: what changes for teams running MCP servers
MCP 2026-07-28 drops sessions, adds routing headers, hardens authorisation and deprecates features. What platform and security teams need to plan for.
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