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Sentence Transformers is joining Hugging Face!
Next.js 16
Next.js 16 includes Cache Components, stable Turbopack, file system caching, React Compiler support, smarter routing, new caching APIs, and React 19.2 features.
Continue your ChatGPT experience beyond WhatsApp
ChatGPT will no longer be available on WhatsApp after January 15, 2026. Learn how to link your ChatGPT account and continue your conversations across devices.
Preview links between microfrontends projects now serve all paths
Teams using can now visit all routes from any domain in the microfrontends group, enabling teams to test their full site experience without broken links or missing pages.microfrontends Previously, the microfrontend group's root domain would be the only one to serve the paths hosted by child microfrontends. Now, preview links between all microfrontends projects automatically serve all routes in the group. With this new feature: This feature is enabled by default for all new microfrontends, and
Dynamically extend timeout of an active Sandbox
You can now extend the duration of a running Vercel Sandbox using the new method.extendTimeout This lets long-running sandboxes stay active beyond their initial timeout, making it easier to support workflows like chained agentic tasks or multi-step code generation that take longer than expected. You can extend the timeout multiple times until the is reached.maximum runtime for your plan Pro and Enterprise plans support up to 5 hours, with the Hobby plan supporting up to 45 minutes. and .Get s
Update regarding Vercel service disruption on October 20, 2025
At Vercel, our philosophy is to , not blame, our vendors. Customers use our services to gain velocity, reliability, and ship wonderful products. Whether we picked A or B as one of the components of our “circuit design” is entirely our responsibility.take ownership for Vercel is fully accountable for this incident, even if it's that it was triggered by the unexpected outage of AWS (called ). Vercel uses AWS , is part of the , offers to AWS services, and shares a long history with AWS of .now
AI Crawl Control - New Robots.txt tab for tracking crawler compliance
AI Crawl Control now includes a Robots.txt tab that provides insights into how AI crawlers interact with your robots.txt files. What's new The Robots.txt tab allows you to: Monitor the health status of robots.txt files across all your hostnames, including HTTP status codes, and identify hostnames that need a robots.txt file. Track the total number of requests to each robots.txt file, with breakdowns of successful versus unsuccessful requests. Check whether your robots.txt files contain Content S
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