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Bringing Robotics AI to Embedded Platforms: Dataset Recording, VLA Fine‑Tuning, and On‑Device Optimizations

Ideological Resistance to Patents, Followed by Reluctant Pragmatism

Naresh Jain has long been uncomfortable with software patents. But a direct experience of patent aggression, together with the practical constraints faced by startups, led him to resort to defensive patenting as as a shield in this asymmetric legal environment. more…

From idea to secure checkout in minutes with Stripe

Building commerce applications looks very different than it did even a few years months ago. Teams are no longer treating storefronts and billing systems as long-running integration projects that happen after the product is complete. They iterate quickly, deploy globally by default, and increasingly rely on AI tools to generate UI, checkout flows, and subscription logic. Commerce is becoming more programmable and increasingly agent-driven. As AI systems begin to generate storefronts, assemble ch

Customize timeouts for faster automatic failover on Vercel AI Gateway

AI Gateway now supports per-inference timeouts for faster failover than the provider default. If a provider doesn't start responding within your configured timeout, AI Gateway aborts the request and falls back to the next available provider.provider Provider timeouts are available in beta for BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) credentials only, with support for system provider timeouts coming soon. Note that some providers don't support stream cancellation, so you may still be charged for timed-out requ

Vercel CDN gets a new dashboard experience

Vercel's CDN now has a new dashboard to give you a single place to track global traffic distribution and top-line CDN metrics, manage caching, and update routing rules. The new experience includes: Learn more about or visit for your project to see the updates. Vercel's CDNthe CDN tab Read more A live map of your project's global traffic distribution across Vercel Regions and top-level request volume and cache performance metrics.Overview: A redesigned page for purging content across Vercel

Vercel's CDN now supports updating routing rules without a new deployment

You can now create and update routing rules within a project, such as setting response headers or rewrites to an external API, without building a new deployment. Project-level routing rules are available via the dashboard, API, CLI, and Vercel SDK and take effect instantly after you make and publish the change. Project-level routes run after bulk redirects and before your deployment config's routes. With this addition, Vercel's CDN now supports three routing mechanisms: Project-level routes a