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Real-Time AI Sound Generation on Arm: A Personal Tool for Creative Freedom
Introducing the 2025 Apple Design Award winners and finalists
An artistic puzzler with a wildlife twist. A translation app powered by machine learning and stickers. And a card game that’s been on quite a run. Say hello to the wildly inventive crop of 2025 Apple Design Award honorees. View this year's winners and finalists >
Hello Developer: June 2025
WWDC25 is just days away! Here’s everything you need to get ready — and a big announcement to start things off. Say hello to the wildly inventive crop of 2025 Apple Design Award winners and finalists. Read the full article
Holo1: New family of GUI automation VLMs powering GUI agent Surfer-H
New firewall challenge metrics now available
You can now monitor and query outcomes using two new metrics:Vercel Firewall challenge These metrics help evaluate rule effectiveness and reduce friction when users are unnecessarily challenged (high success rates). Now available in the Firewall and in the Observability Plus' with no additional setup required.dashboardquery builder Learn more about and .custom rulesmanaged rulesets Read more – Visitor solved the challenge and was granted access (indicates a real user)challenge-solved – V
AI Gateway - AI Gateway adds OpenAI compatible endpoint
Users can now use an OpenAI Compatible endpoint in AI Gateway to easily switch between providers, while keeping the exact same request and response formats. We're launching now with the chat completions endpoint, with the embeddings endpoint coming up next. To get started, use the OpenAI compatible chat completions endpoint URL with your own account id and gateway id and switch between providers by changing the model and apiKey parameters. import OpenAI from "openai"; const client = new OpenA
DNS - Improved onboarding for Shopify merchants
Shopify merchants can now onboard to O2O automatically, without needing to contact support or community members. What's new: Automatic enablement – O2O is available for all mutual Cloudflare and Shopify customers. Branded record display – Merchants see a Shopify logo in DNS records, complete with helpful tooltips. Checkout protection – Workers and Snippets are blocked from running on the checkout path to reduce risk and improve security. For more information, refer to the provider guide.
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