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Vercel MCP now supports purchases

now supports purchasing Vercel products. You can:Vercel MCP Vercel MCP quotes the price, explains whether the charge is one-time or recurring, and completes the purchase only after you confirm. When an exact price isn't available, it links to the relevant pricing or billing page. Purchases require a team role with billing access and a valid payment method. to Vercel MCP to get started.Connect your AI assistant Read more Upgrade your team to the Pro plan Add prepaid credits for (requires a pa

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Laguna S 2.1 is now available on AI Gateway

is now available on AI Gateway. There are 2 versions of the model available:Laguna S 2.1 from Poolside Laguna S 2.1 is an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts model that supports a context window of up to 1M tokens and runs in thinking and no-thinking modes. The model specializes in agentic coding and long-running tasks, including writing and debugging code, running tests, building browser-based tooling, and working on MLOps pipelines and AI research. In thinking mode, Laguna S 2.1 reports 70.2% on Te

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Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite are now available on AI Gateway

and are now available on AI Gateway.Gemini 3.6 FlashGemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Gemini 3.6 Flash improves quality across coding, agentic tasks, and web development while consuming fewer tokens and making fewer model calls. It produces cleaner web and app development output. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite upgrades the agentic capabilities of the Flash-Lite tier, making it a good fit for subagents that handle scoped parts of a larger task. To use them, set to or in the :modelgoogle/gemini-3.6-flashgoogle/gem

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Service tiers now available on AI Gateway

AI Gateway now supports service tiering. Service tiers let you optimize for latency, throughput, and cost per request to match your use case. Pick a faster tier for interactive workloads (less queueing, higher token throughput), or a lower cost tier for background jobs that can tolerate more latency. At launch, service tiering is available for OpenAI and Gemini models. work across every AI Gateway API format: , , , , and . AI Gateway adjusts billing based on the tier each request used.Service t

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Elastic Stack 9.4.3 released

Version 9.4.3 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 9.4.3 over the previous versions 9.4.2 For details of the issues that have been fixed and a full list of changes for each product in this version, please refer to the release notes.

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Elastic Stack 9.4.4 released

Version 9.4.4 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 9.4.4 over the previous versions 9.4.3 For details of the issues that have been fixed and a full list of changes for each product in this version, please refer to the release notes.

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