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// I was young and needed to ship.
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HTML/CSS is Turing complete, so why not compile programs to plain HTML/CSS and runs with zero bytes of JavaScript? zero-js.vercel.app
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In Vercel Sandbox when you allow list a host name: - DNS will only resolve for that host name - TLS SNI will only work for that host name - When filtering HTTP(S), the host header must match that host name
More details on the incident behind OpenAI’s pause: a researcher acknowledged the alert within 3 minutes, but the training run was only stopped manually 2.5 hours later. OpenAI says the automatic shutdown did not work as expected. The model had reached an external chatbot through a gap in DNS filtering. A separate detector for unusual DNS activity did not cover the affected environment. A retrospective review also found other external DNS requests that monitoring had failed to flag at the expected severity. In some cases, it treated an unhelpful response as evidence that internet access had failed. Here is what else happened: - New research into July’s Hugging Face hack documents internal Slack searches, credential collection and programs designed to maintain access to compromised servers. Agents also tried querying Claude, DeepSeek, Kimi and Qwen. - In May, another model published a researcher’s GitHub token while trying to obtain another team’s mathematical proof. It split the token to evade secret scanning, despite twice being told to solve the problem itself. - Reuters reports that agents leaked 53 ChatGPT user images online. OpenAI expects its broader investigation to take months. This is getting serious.
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These days IP allow-lists are not very useful because large chunks of the internet runs on a relatively small number of IPs. At best it works if you own the destination IP and know it is single use. You need to perform either SNI based allow-listing but if you are not sure whether the destination host might allow domain fronting then the only secure way is to MITM the TLS and also enforce a host header allow list. You probably want to do that anyway because you should enforce stricter rules than allowing the entire host.
I asked an L7 engineer at openai if they could build an isolated vlan with strict outbound 443 with ip whitelist They said they cant. They dont know how
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Meet Pixel Canary on Vercel AI Gateway. • 𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚑/𝚙𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕-𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚢 • Free in stealth for a limited time • Agentic coding & mobile app dev • Ties GPT-6 Astra on Next.js evals • Prompts may be used for model improvement vercel.com/changelog/pixel-c…
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GPT-Sol absolutely mogs on DeepSecBench. Very impressive. Better than Astra at 20% of the price 🤯
GPT-6 Sol now leads DeepSecBench's Pareto frontier: • Highest benchmark score • 80% lower run cost than the runner-up (GPT-6 Astra) vercel.com/ai-gateway/leader…
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In 7 months, the skills.⁠sh registry reached 1 million agent skills and nearly 280 million installs. See what people are teaching agents, and where skills are going ↓ vercel.com/blog/state-of-age…
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I was vibing on the beat a little too hard
Spend of OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open (Vercel AI Gateway, last 2 months) • Anthropic still #1 in spend, but went 69% → 40% • OpenAI: 10% → 24% in spend • GPT-6 Astra + GPT 5.6 Sol are ripping • OpenAI now leads in tokens # • Kimi K3 + DeepSeek took ~half of Anthropic's loss • Opus 5.5 is up to 10% of spend in 2 days • OpenAI is 62% of image generations Watch here: token-race.vercel.app
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The AI-based hardening of the entire ecosystem continues 💪 I'm incredibly proud of the leadership of the @nextjs team in surfacing issues and helping drive disclosure through the ecosystem. PSA: If you do any type of image processing directly (not through a framework; and this is very common; O(most apps)), you really must be updating your dependencies at least weekly
The Next.js September security release is planned for September 30, 2026. It will address nine vulnerabilities, including one critical and two high-severity issues, with fixes in 16.3.7 and 15.5.27. Upgrade once they are available. nextjs.org/blog/upcoming-nex…
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🚢 We've been developing a custom S3-backed block storage for the past few months: Drives give you terabytes (!) of storage on Sandboxes, up from 64GB previously, and can be shared on many workloads at once Can't wait to share more about the technical details
Vercel Sandbox now has persistent storage with Drives, in public beta on every plan. ▪︎ Store agent workspaces, data, models, deps ▪︎ Read snapshots across parallel sandboxes ▪︎ Mount up to four Drives per sandbox ▪︎ Up to 16 TiB per Drive vercel.com/changelog/drives-…
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Muse, Instinct, OpenClaw, Claude Code… All successful agents have 3 key components: 🧠 Brain → model, harness (logic) 👐 Hands → tools, computer, browser 🗃️ Files → memories, skills, repos The 'easy' way is to throw all these in 1 stateful computer (a Mac Mini) Like, you run 𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚞𝚍𝚎 or 𝚏𝚡 in your mac, you keep it running all day with 𝚌𝚊𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚎, it has storage, and CLIs and apps installed. But if you want to cost-efficiently run agents in the cloud, you actually start breaking down these parts. 🧠 The harness can run in Fluid compute. To make it reliable across restarts, rollouts, crashes, you make its event log durable using Workflow. 👐 The hands can be a dedicated browser fleet like Browserbase/Kernel, a computer like Sandbox, and even more efficient lightweight tools like just-bash. 🗃️ 🆕 What was missing was a way to also decouple storage. Imagine you want to run a memory consolidation cron job every night ("dreaming"). You can read/write to the files directly without 'booting up' the agent's full computer. Today we're introducing the perfect companion to Sandbox: Drives. We shipped the computer for agents, now we're giving you the 'external disk' you can attach at will. It's early, and we'll be expanding capabilities here quickly. Btw, breaking apart the agent into these independent parts not only optimizes costs in a big way, it also *massively* improves security and auditability. I'd argue you can't even run a secure agent otherwise!
Vercel Sandbox now has persistent storage with Drives, in public beta on every plan. ▪︎ Store agent workspaces, data, models, deps ▪︎ Read snapshots across parallel sandboxes ▪︎ Mount up to four Drives per sandbox ▪︎ Up to 16 TiB per Drive vercel.com/changelog/drives-…
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Drives available for Sandboxes on Vercel. Writes are NVMe speed. Reads are block-wise lazy-loaded from blob store and NVMe speed after.
Vercel Sandbox now has persistent storage with Drives, in public beta on every plan. ▪︎ Store agent workspaces, data, models, deps ▪︎ Read snapshots across parallel sandboxes ▪︎ Mount up to four Drives per sandbox ▪︎ Up to 16 TiB per Drive vercel.com/changelog/drives-…
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Workflow tools in eve: deterministically orchestrate subagents, add human-in-the-loop, stream progress, and durably execute multi-step work
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To all the Agents as a Service startups out there: Get those Enterprise $$$$s.
Microsoft Teams is now on Vercel Connect. Your apps and agents run as a Teams bot. People mention it in channels or message it directly, and your code replies as the bot. vc connect create microsoft-teams
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Have a question? Ask Jev AskJev.net
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🤯 @grok Is this true?
Grok 4.7 is live on AI Gateway, fx, and @eve. 40% off on all until September 27th. 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚡𝚊𝚒/𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚔-𝟺.𝟽 vercel.com/changelog/grok-4-…
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Jev is still 🆓 on Vercel for 4 more days
Jev by @typesafeai is free on Vercel AI Gateway until Sept 25. Build with the fastest adopted model on the Gateway at no cost. vercel.com/ai-gateway/models…
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As a weekend project I set out to determine the prime factors of happiness also known as RSA-255. I sent 1000 agents using Astra X high on newly freed up spare GPU capacity from workloads moving from LLMs to Jev and this is what they came up with
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Jev is classic low-end disruption. You don't invent Jev is you are a GPU-rich hyperlab
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For the same reason that it is more difficult to write the lean proof than it is to validate the lean proof. Is there nuance? Yes. Is the nuance that having the new tool in the toolbox is worthless? No
I don't get why everybody is recommending using a model that doesn't reason to decide between the results of models that do reasoning.
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There are some really wild things you can do with Jev and agent-browser Example:
thanks to @typesafeai's Jev we now have massively parallel browser-based adversarial testing suite that tries to break each release. and it costs pennies.
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