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Anomaly alerts now in public beta

Teams using can now receive alerts when anomalies are detected in their applications to help quickly identify, investigate and resolve unexpected behavior.Observability Plus Alerts help monitor your app in real-time by surfacing unexpected changes in usage or error patterns: View alerts directly in your dashboard, or subscribe via email, Slack or webhooks to get notified wherever your team works., Alerts are available public beta for Pro and Enterprise customers with Observability Plus. or lea

Commits to the same branch now build with no queues

Vercel now builds multiple commits to the same branch at the same time when On-Demand Concurrent Builds is enabled. Previously, a new commit would wait for the previous build on that branch to finish before starting. This update eliminates that queue, allowing commits to start building as soon as they arrive. Visit the to learn more.On-demand concurrent builds documentation Read more

Expert Council on Well-Being and AI

OpenAI’s new Expert Council on Well-Being and AI brings together leading psychologists, clinicians, and researchers to guide how ChatGPT supports emotional health, especially for teens. Learn how their insights are shaping safer, more caring AI experiences.

Argentina’s AI opportunity

OpenAI and Sur Energy are exploring Argentina’s first Stargate project—an AI and clean energy collaboration that could make Argentina a Latin American leader in artificial intelligence, sustainable infrastructure, and digital innovation.

Benchmarking Postgres 17 vs 18

Postgres 18 released a few weeks ago, and there's plenty of hype around the improvements it's bringing.Most notably, Postgres 18 introduces the io_method configuration option, allowing users more control over how disk I/O is handled. Setting this to sync results in the same behavior as 17 and earlier versions.With this, all I/O happens via synchronous requests. 18 introduces two alternatives: worker and io_uring.worker (the new default) causes Postgres to use dedicated background worker processe

AI Crawl Control - Enhanced AI Crawl Control metrics with new drilldowns and filters

AI Crawl Control now provides enhanced metrics and CSV data exports to help you better understand AI crawler activity across your sites. What's new Track crawler requests over time Visualize crawler activity patterns over time, and group data by different dimensions: By Crawler — Track activity from individual AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Bytespider) By Category — Analyze crawler purpose or type By Operator — Discover which companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, ByteDance) are crawling your site By Ho

Cloudflare Fundamentals - Single sign-on now manageable in the user experience

During Birthday Week, we announced that single sign-on (SSO) is available for free to everyone who signs in with a custom email domain and maintains a compatible identity provider. SSO minimizes user friction around login and provides the strongest security posture available. At the time, this could only be configured using the API. Today, we are launching a new user experience which allows users to manage their SSO configuration from within the Cloudflare dashboard. You can access this by going