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AI & ML — Vercel collaborates with OpenAI for GPT-5 launch

Vercel collaborates with OpenAI for GPT-5 launch

The GPT-5 family of models released today, are now available through AI Gateway and are in production on our own v0.dev applications. Thanks to OpenAI, Vercel has been testing these models for a few weeks in v0, Next.js, AI SDK, and Vercel Sandbox.

VVercel·August 7, 2025AI & ML
Frontend — Bringing Back Parallax With Scroll-Driven CSS Animations

Bringing Back Parallax With Scroll-Driven CSS Animations

Parallax is a pattern in which different elements of a webpage move at varying speeds as the user scrolls, creating a three-dimensional, layered appearance. It once required JavaScript. Now we have scroll-driven animations in CSS, which is free from the main-thread blocking that can plague JavaScript animations.

BLBlake LundquistBlake Lundquist·August 6, 2025Frontend
AI & ML — Diff Risk Score: AI-driven risk-aware software development

Diff Risk Score: AI-driven risk-aware software development

The state of the research Diff Risk Score (DRS) is an AI-powered technology built at Meta that predicts the likelihood of a code change causing a production incident, also known as a SEV. Built on a fine-tuned Llama LLM, DRS evaluates code changes and metadata to produce a risk score and highlight potentially risky code […]

CWChris Wiltz·August 6, 2025AI & ML
Performance — Automating Design Systems: Tips And Resources For Getting Started — Smashing Magazine

Automating Design Systems: Tips And Resources For Getting Started — Smashing Magazine

Design systems are more than style guides: they’re made up of workflows, tokens, components, and documentation — all the stuff teams rely on to build consistent products. As projects grow, keeping everything in sync gets tricky fast. In this article, we’ll look at how smart tooling, combined with automation where it makes sense, can speed things up, reduce errors, and help your team focus on desig

JPJoas PambouJoas Pambou·August 6, 2025Performance
AI & ML — How far can we push AI autonomy in code generation?

How far can we push AI autonomy in code generation?

We ran a series of experiments to explore how far Generative AI can currently be pushed toward autonomously developing high-quality, up-to-date software without human intervention. As a test case, we created an agentic workflow to build a simple Spring Boot application end to end. We found that the workflow could ultimately generate these simple applications, but still observed significant issues

BBBirgitta Böckeler·August 5, 2025AI & ML
AI & ML — MCP UI: Breaking the text wall with interactive components (2025) - Shopify

MCP UI: Breaking the text wall with interactive components (2025) - Shopify

MCP UI extends the Model Context Protocol to enable AI agents to return fully interactive UI components. It solves the critical challenge that commerce experiences require visual and interactive elements like product selectors, image galleries, and cart flows. This open-source protocol allows agents to embed commerce components while maintaining control through an intent-based messaging system, de

SEShopify Engineering·August 5, 2025AI & ML
AI & ML — Building a human-computer interface for everyone

Building a human-computer interface for everyone

What if you could control any device using only subtle hand movements? New research from Meta’s Reality Labs is pointing even more firmly toward wrist-worn devices using surface electromyography (sEMG) becoming the future of human-computer interaction. But how do you develop a wrist-worn input device that works for everyone? Generalization has been one of the […]

CWChris Wiltz·August 4, 2025AI & ML
Security — v0: vibe coding, securely

v0: vibe coding, securely

Vibe coding makes it possible for anyone to ship a viral app. But every line of AI-generated code is a potential vulnerability. Security cannot be an afterthought, it must be the foundation. Turn ideas into secure apps with v0.

VVercel·August 4, 2025Security