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Introducing Vercel for Slack

now works in Slack. Mention it the way you'd pull a teammate into a thread, and it reads the discussion, answers with the context of the platform running your app, and turns the team's decisions into changes you approve. Vercel for Slack is available today in Public Beta for Pro and Enterprise teams.Vercel Agent . An alert gets noticed in a channel, a fix gets agreed on in a thread, and then someone leaves Slack to do the work. With Vercel Agent, you can tag it in for answers about your infrastr

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Compliance documents are now available in Team settings

A new Compliance section in Team settings lets you preview and download Vercel's compliance documents directly in the dashboard. These include attestations like SOC 2 Type 2, security policies, and other security documents that are available through the Trust Center. You can select a single document, an entire attestation, or multiple documents, and download them together as a single zip archive. Every download and preview is watermarked with your user and team information. Some entries link out

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Fish Audio models now available on Vercel AI Gateway for free

's audio models are now available on AI Gateway. To celebrate the launch, every model is free on AI Gateway for the next 30 days, through September 18.Fish AudioFish Audio Four models from Fish Audio are available, including their latest text-to-speech model: How to use models during the offer period Speech and transcription ship in the current 7 release.AI SDK Generate spoken audio from text with and write the result:generateSpeech Transcribe recordings into text with . The audio can be a bu

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Vercel for Slack now in public beta

Vercel Agent is now available in Slack. Mention in any channel or thread, and Agent joins the conversation with relevant context from your Vercel projects, including deployments, builds, logs, metrics, configuration, and connected repos.@Vercel For example, use it to: Vercel Agent acts through its own identity. It's read-only by default, never exceeds the requester’s permissions, and makes no changes without approval. Every action is attributed to Agent, the requester, and the approver. Vercel

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Vercel Connect now supports Microsoft

now includes a managed connector for , so your apps and agents can access all Microsoft products such as Teams, OneDrive and more.Vercel ConnectMicrosoft As a , Vercel registers the Entra application and configures federated credentials for it, so you don't have to create an app registration or manage client secrets yourself. Authorize the app for your Microsoft tenant once, then attach the connector to the projects and environments it needs.Vercel Managed Connector Create a connector from the

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Engineering: Dreams, or Self-Actualization?

At what point did you start to think you were an engineer? An engineer. What a lofty, prestigious-sounding title! I am not lofty or prestigious. But I do question things. Like why do people follow archaic procedures and thinking patterns, if there is a clearly better path? When you work in a school everything is sort of need-to-know only. So I don’t know why things are done the way they are done, until I plow through 20 brick walls. Persistence answers yesterday's reasoning. Today builds tomor

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Claude-Enabled Protein Binder Design Shows Progress, but TREM2 Results Need Context

Claude-enabled protein binder design has produced a meaningful experimental signal in a TREM2 campaign, but the result should be read as evidence of progress in AI-assisted biotech tooling rather than proof of faster drug discovery. In a February 2026 one-day hackathon organized by muni, autonomous AI agents including Claude Sonnet 4.6 submitted designs that were subsequently tested in the wet lab by Adaptyv Bio. The screen evaluated 35 agent-designed binders, of which 12 bound TREM2, for a 34.3

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Enterprise managed settings in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains

GitHub Copilot for JetBrains now supports enterprise managed settings for plugin governance, MCP server access, OpenTelemetry, and permission modes. Administrators can now apply consistent controls for everyone on your enterprise’s… The post Enterprise managed settings in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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