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Performance — Introducing Active CPU pricing for Fluid compute

Introducing Active CPU pricing for Fluid compute

Fluid compute now uses Active CPU pricing. Only pay CPU rates when your function is actively computing. Building on existing Fluid gains, this brings additional savings of up to 90% for workloads like LLM calls, AI agents, or tasks with idle time.

VVercel·July 2, 2026Performance
Frontend — Vercel supports HIPAA compliance

Vercel supports HIPAA compliance

Vercel now supports HIPAA compliance for our enterprise customers, enabling companies to leverage our Frontend Cloud while maintaining compliance

VVercel·July 2, 2026Frontend
AI & ML — AI Gateway production index

AI Gateway production index

The state of production AI in 2026. Data from seven months of AI Gateway traffic across hundreds of models and tens of trillions of tokens.

VVercel·July 2, 2026AI & ML
Performance — Build realtime voice agents on AI Gateway

Build realtime voice agents on AI Gateway

Audio/voice support is live on AI Gateway, with realtime. Build realtime, low-latency voice agents with the AI SDK on Vercel AI Gateway, plus text to speech and speech to text behind one API key and your existing tooling.

VVercel·July 2, 2026Performance
AI & ML — Making AI search smarter

Making AI search smarter

Search is how we find nearly everything on the web — creators, merchants, answers. AI is rewriting the rules, leaving creators caught between staying discoverable in an agentic era and getting paid for their work. Today we're launching two initiatives to help.

MCMatthew ConroyMatthew Conroy·July 1, 2026AI & ML
AI & ML — Your site, your rules: new AI traffic options for all customers

Your site, your rules: new AI traffic options for all customers

For our second Content Independence Day, we’re giving website owners finer options to manage AI traffic. Instead of a one-size-fits-all block, all customers can now easily distinguish and manage Search, Agent, and Training bots, alongside the new ability to protect ad-monetized pages.

JHJin Hee Lee, Bryan BeckerJin Hee Lee, Bryan Becker·July 1, 2026AI & ML
Engineering — Quick Hit #155

Quick Hit #155

Chrome 150 ships background-clip: border-area (supported by Safari already).

DSDaniel SchwarzDaniel Schwarz·July 1, 2026Engineering
SRE & Ops — Meta’s AI Storage Blueprint at Scale

Meta’s AI Storage Blueprint at Scale

Over the past several years, model capabilities and training dataset sizes have experienced exponential growth. During the past year or so, the time between new-frontier-model releases has gone down from months to weeks. Reliable and fast access to storage is important to both the speed and computational cost of this AI innovation. If AI is […]

CWChris Wiltz·July 1, 2026SRE & Ops