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Near-100% Accurate Data for your Agent with Comprehensive Context Engineering

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Agentic workflows are already used for initiating action. To be successful, agents typically need to combine multiple steps and execute business logic reflective of real-life decisions. But, as develo

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New GitHub App permissions for Actions and Workflows

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The Vercel GitHub App now requests two additional repository permissions: **Actions (read)** and **Workflows (read & write)**. These permissions enable Vercel Agent to read workflow run logs to hel...

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10 Apr 2026

New paper argues history, not mantle plume, powers Yellowstone

A study published in *Science* (April 2026) by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences challenges the long-held view that Yellowstone's supervolcano is powered by a deep mantle plume, inst...

new.website joins forces with v0

Vercel's AI builder v0 has acquired the team behind new.website, a tool founded to make creating beautiful, production-ready websites effortless through built-in primitives like forms, databases, S...

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Nutanix expands agentic AI infrastructure platform as token costs threaten to spiral

Managing AI infrastructure across the full stack is getting more complex — and more expensive. Now, Nutanix Inc. is tackling both problems with an expanded agentic AI infrastructure platform that give

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Oldest octopus fossil found to not be an octopus

A 300-million-year-old fossil named *Pohlsepia mazonensis*, originally identified as the world's oldest octopus in 2000, has been reclassified in 2026 as a nautiloid — a relative of the modern naut...

'Oobleck' still holds some surprises

I was unable to retrieve the specific April 2026 Ars Technica article titled *'Oobleck' still holds some surprises* from the search results. The search did not surface that article's content, and I...

Optimizing Vercel Sandbox snapshots

Vercel Sandbox snapshots capture the complete filesystem state of a running sandbox — including installed packages and configured environments — allowing new sandboxes to be launched from that save...

Opus 4.6 Fast Mode available on AI Gateway

Vercel AI Gateway now supports Fast Mode for Claude Opus 4.6, an early experimental feature that delivers 2.5x faster output token speeds while maintaining the same model intelligence. It is partic...

Orion helium leak no threat to Artemis II reentry but will require redesign

During the Artemis II mission, a helium leak was identified within the oxidizer pressurization system of the European Service Module's propulsion system. The in-flight leak rate was 'an order of...

Our response to the Axios developer tool compromise

Axios, a widely used third-party JavaScript developer library with approximately 100 million weekly downloads, was compromised on March 31, 2026, as part of a broader software supply chain attack a...

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Personalizing ChatGPT

The OpenAI Academy 'Personalizing ChatGPT' tutorial covers several methods users can employ to tailor ChatGPT's behavior to their needs, including custom instructions, memory, and prompt engineerin...

Powering clinical research innovation: How TriNetX uses Databricks to accelerate drug development

TriNetX is a global health research network that connects pharmaceutical companies, study sites, investigators, and patients by leveraging real-world data (RWD) from electronic health records acros...

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Pro-Iran Explosive Media trolls Trump with AI-generated Lego cartoons

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A pro-Iran group called Akhbar Enfejari ('Explosive News') has produced AI-generated videos styled after Lego animations to mock and troll U.S. President Donald Trump amid the ongoing U.S.-Iranian ...

Prompting fundamentals

The OpenAI Academy 'Prompting Fundamentals' resource teaches users the basics of prompt engineering, explaining that a prompt is a question or instruction given to ChatGPT in text, image, audio, or...

Query and manage Marketplace databases from the dashboard

Vercel now allows users to query and manage Marketplace databases directly from the dashboard, with access to a Browser section on each database page for hands-on data management. Users can view t...

Query and visualize workflow data in Vercel Observability

Vercel's Observability Plus query builder now supports custom queries on Vercel Workflow runs and steps, enabling teams to visualize traffic, performance, and other key metrics across their workflo...

QueryData helps agents turn natural language into queries for AlloyDB, Cloud SQL and Spanner

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QueryData launches in preview today. It is a tool for translating natural language into database queries with near-100% accuracy. With QueryData, you can build agentic experiences across AlloyDB, Clou

Qwen 3.6 Plus on AI Gateway

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Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 Plus is now available on Vercel's AI Gateway, accessible via a unified API with no additional provider accounts required. Compared to Qwen 3.5 Plus, this model adds stronger age...

Raising the security baseline: Essential AI and cloud security now on by default

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The rapid evolution of AI is redefining industries, while also exposing organizations to new risks. At Google Cloud, we believe that modern cloud defense should have AI protection built in and accessi

Report: US demands Reddit unmask ICE critic, summons firm to grand jury

The Trump administration has ordered Reddit to appear before a secret grand jury in Washington, D.C., demanding the personal data of an anonymous user who criticized ICE online, with a compliance d...

Research with ChatGPT

The OpenAI Academy 'Research with ChatGPT' tutorial covers how to use ChatGPT's two primary research tools: the Search the Web feature for retrieving live data and sources quickly, and Deep Researc...

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Responsible and safe use of AI

The OpenAI Academy page on 'Responsible and Safe Use of AI' is a guidance resource focused on best practices for using ChatGPT responsibly in professional and personal settings. It emphasizes that ...

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Hardware

RISC-V chip design startup SiFive nabs $400M investment

SiFive Inc., a startup that sells chip designs based on the open-source RISC-V architecture, has raised $400 million in funding at a $3.65 billion valuation. Atreides Management led the Series G round

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Rocket Report: Chinese version of Falcon 9 fails; Artemis depends on rapid heavy lift

A weekly industry rocket news roundup highlighted three key developments: a Chinese Falcon 9-style reusable rocket suffered a launch failure, underscoring ongoing challenges facing China's growing ...

Sandbox SDK adds file permission control

Vercel Sandbox SDK version 1.9.0 introduces native file permission control within the `writeFiles` API, allowing developers to set Unix-style permissions by passing a `mode` property in a single op...

SERHANT.'s playbook for rapid AI iteration

SERHANT., an AI-native real estate brokerage, built its internal AI platform S.MPLE on Next.js and Vercel, scaling it from a 200-agent pilot to over 900 agents without replatforming or rebuilding i...

Service providers are seeing a once-in-a-decade opportunity in cloud rebalancing

The post-Broadcom Inc. shockwave is creating a cloud rebalancing opportunity, and service providers are racing to capitalize on it. The disruption is compounding as Broadcom’s consolidation of its VMw

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Summary of CVE-2026-23869

CVE-2026-23869 is a high-severity Denial of Service vulnerability affecting React Server Components. It can lead to Denial of Service and is present in Next.js 13.x, 14.x, 15.x, and 16.x, impactin...

Team-wide Zero Data Retention and prompt training controls now on AI Gateway

The AI Gateway now provides robust, centralized controls for data governance, enabling team-wide and request-level enforcement of Zero Data Retention (ZDR) and prompt training opt-outs. By integrat...

Research

The Download: an exclusive Jeff VanderMeer story and AI models too scary to release

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Constellations —Constellations is a short story by Jeff Vander

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The Iranian Lego AI video creators credit their virality to ‘heart’

Donald Trump has spun the recent rescue of a downed airman whose fighter jet was destroyed behind Iranian borders as a resounding success. But the story is very different in one of the many viral, AI-

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Transfer Marketplace resources between teams

Vercel now supports transferring Marketplace resources (such as databases) between teams directly from the dashboard, eliminating the need to use the API. Team owners and members can initiate trans...

Try Grok 4.20 on AI Gateway

Vercel's AI Gateway now supports xAI's Grok 4.20 model family, including variants for multi-agent, reasoning (beta), and non-reasoning use cases, accessible without requiring a separate provider ac...

Two startups at global scale without DevOps

Leonardo.AI and Relevance AI — two Australian AI-native startups — operate at global scale (processing millions of images daily and running autonomous agents across time zones, respectively) withou...

Unified reporting for all AI Gateway usage

Vercel's Custom Reporting API for AI Gateway, now in beta for Pro and Enterprise plans, provides programmatic access to cost, token usage, and request volume across all AI Gateway traffic — includi...

Use and manage Vercel Sandbox directly from the Vercel CLI

The Vercel CLI allows users to interact with and manage the Vercel Sandbox functionality directly via the `vercel sandbox` command. This integration eliminates the need for users to install a separ...

Using custom GPTs

Custom GPTs are tailored versions of ChatGPT that users can configure for specific tasks, roles, or workflows by setting instructions, uploading proprietary knowledge files, and enabling capabiliti...

Using projects in ChatGPT

ChatGPT Projects are dedicated workspaces that let users group related chats, upload reference files (such as PDFs, spreadsheets, and images), and set custom instructions so that ChatGPT maintains ...

Using skills

In ChatGPT, a skill is a reusable, shareable workflow — defined by a `SKILL.md` file — that tells ChatGPT how to consistently execute a specific task without starting from scratch each time. Skills...

Vercel CDN now respects Cache-Control headers from external origins by default

Vercel's CDN now automatically respects caching headers from external origins by default for new projects. Previously, responses served through rewrites to external origins were uncached by defaul...

Vercel CLI commands now scoped to local directory

Commands like `vc project ls` and `vc domains ls` now automatically use the scope of the linked local directory instead of defaulting to the global team. Previously, running these commands inside a...

Vercel plugin now supported on OpenAI Codex and Codex CLI

The Vercel plugin now supports OpenAI Codex and Codex CLI, expanding on its initial launch with Claude Code and Cursor. With the plugin, teams can access over 39 platform skills, three specialist ...

Vercel Sandbox now supports up to 32 vCPU + 64 GB RAM configurations

Vercel Sandbox now supports creating sandboxes with up to 32 vCPUs and 64 GB of RAM for Enterprise customers, enabling large, resource-intensive applications that are CPU-bound or require significa...

Vercel Sandboxes now allow unique, customizable names

As of March 26, 2026, Vercel Sandboxes created with the latest beta package support unique, customizable names within a project, replacing the previous ID-based identification system. Named sandbox...

View specific error codes in runtime logs

Vercel now displays specific error codes directly in the request details panel of the Runtime Logs page, alongside the standard HTTP status response code. This enhancement makes it easier to diagno...

What leaked 'SteamGPT' files could mean for the PC gaming platform's use of AI

Leaked code strings discovered on April 7, 2026, by dataminer Gabe Follower in a Steam VR Beta update reveal references to an internal Valve AI system called 'SteamGPT,' which appears designed to ...

Research

What’s in a name? Moderna’s “vaccine” vs. “therapy” dilemma

Is it the Department of Defense or the Department of War? The Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf of America? A vaccine—or an “individualized neoantigen treatment”? That’s the Trump-era vocabulary paradox faci

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