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Vercel Blog

Inception Mercury 2 is live on AI Gateway

Mercury 2 from Inception is now available on .Vercel AI Gateway Mercury 2 from Inception is now available on AI Gateway. Mercury 2 delivers reasoning-grade quality at real-time latency, making it ideal for agentic loops, coding assistants, voice interfaces, and RAG pipelines where compounding latency is the bottleneck. To use Mercury 2, set model to in the .inception/mercury-2AI SDK AI Gateway provides a unified API for calling models, tracking usage and cost, and configuring retries, failover,

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Martin Fowler

Humans and Agents in Software Engineering Loops

There's been much talk recently about how AI agents affect the workflow loops of software development. Kief Morris believes the answer is to focus on the goal of turning ideas into outcomes. The right place for us humans is to build and manage the working loop rather than either leaving the agents to it or micromanaging what they produce. more…

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Prisma Blog

The Next Evolution of Prisma ORM

A look at Prisma Next, a ground-up rethink of Prisma that improves queries, extensibility, migrations, and AI-friendly workflows while keeping Prisma’s schema-first approach.

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Cloudflare Changelog

Browser Run - Browser Rendering: 3x higher REST API request rate

Browser Rendering REST API rate limits for Workers Paid plans have been increased from 3 requests per second (180/min) to 10 requests per second (600/min). No action is needed to benefit from the higher limit. The REST API lets you perform common browser tasks with a single API call, and you can now do it at a higher rate. /content - Fetch HTML /screenshot - Capture screenshot /pdf - Render PDF /markdown - Extract Markdown from a webpage /snapshot - Take a webpage snapshot /scrape - Scrape HTML

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Cloudflare Changelog

Cloudflare One, Access - User risk score selector in Access policies

You can now use user risk scores in your Access policies. The new User Risk Score selector allows you to create Access policies that respond to user behavior patterns detected by Cloudflare's risk scoring system, including impossible travel, high DLP policy matches, and more. For more information, refer to Use risk scores in Access policies.

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Cloudflare Changelog

Gateway - Gateway Authorization Proxy and hosted PAC files (open beta)

The Gateway Authorization Proxy and PAC file hosting are now in open beta for all plan types. Previously, proxy endpoints relied on static source IP addresses to authorize traffic, providing no user-level identity in logs or policies. The new authorization proxy replaces IP-based authorization with Cloudflare Access authentication, verifying who a user is before applying Gateway filtering without installing the WARP client. This is ideal for environments where you cannot deploy a device client,

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Cloudflare Changelog

Workers AI - New conversion options for Markdown Conversion

You can now customize how the Markdown Conversion service processes different file types by passing a conversionOptions object. Available options: Images: Set the language for AI-generated image descriptions HTML: Use CSS selectors to extract specific content, or provide a hostname to resolve relative links PDF: Exclude metadata from the output Use the env.AI binding: JavaScript await env.AI.toMarkdown( { name: "page.html", blob: new Blob([html]) }, { conversionOptions: {

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OpenAI News

Understanding AI and learning outcomes

OpenAI introduces the Learning Outcomes Measurement Suite to assess AI’s impact on student learning across diverse educational environments over time.

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