Google — The Keyword / AI / Research / DeepMind / Developers
Teaching AI to read a map
Machine Perception
Tuesday, 17 February 2026
Everything this site carried that day, newest first. Stories are kept for a month, and the widely covered ones for a year.
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Neon Is a Cursor Plugin
Cursor just launched plugins, making it easier than ever to give Cursor structured access to external tools and infrastructure. Neon is part of the initial launch set: you can install the Neon plugin today from the Cursor Marketplace to give Cursor live access to your Neon organi...
Wiz Research
Wiz Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Native Application Protection Solutions, Q1 2026
Forrester’s CNAPP evaluation rated Wiz with the highest Current Offering category score, which we believe reflects our commitment to protecting everything built and run in the cloud.
Google — The Keyword / AI / Research / DeepMind / Developers
Accelerating discovery in India through AI-powered science and education
Google DeepMind brings National Partnerships for AI initiative to India, scaling AI for science and education
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Automatic build fix suggestions with Vercel Agent
You can now get automatic code-fix suggestions for broken builds from the Vercel Agent, directly in GitHub pull request reviews or in the Vercel Dashboard. When the Vercel Agent reviews your pull request, it now scans your deployments for build errors, and when it detects failures it automatically…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Improved streaming runtime logs exports
With runtime logs, you can view and export your logs. Exports now stream directly to the browser - your download starts immediately and you can continue to use the Vercel dashboard while the export runs in the background. This eliminates the need to wait for large files to buffer. Additionally…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
How Stably ships AI testing agents in hours, not weeks
How the 6-person team at Stably ships AI testing agents faster with Vercel—moving from weeks to hours. Their shift highlights how Vercel's platform eliminates infrastructure anxiety, boosting autonomous testing and enabling quick enterprise growth. Read more
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is live on AI Gateway
Claude Sonnet 4.6 from Anthropic is now available on AI Gateway with the 1M token context window. Sonnet 4.6 approaches Opus-level intelligence with strong improvements in agentic coding, code review, frontend UI quality, and computer use accuracy. The model proactively executes tasks, delegates to…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
How Ramp kept 100% uptime through 100x traffic surges on Vercel
Ramp on Vercel Full site migration to Next.js on Vercel 100% uptime and 0% error rates through 100x surges AI SDK implemented to build semantic search across scattered internal assets Ramp is a financial operations platform that combines bill payments, corporate cards, procurement, and travel to…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Vercel Sandbox snapshots now allow custom retention periods
Vercel Sandbox Snapshots created withnow have configurable expiration, instead of the previous 7 days limit, along with higher defaults. 1 day to infinity. The expiration can be configured betweenIf not provided, the default snapshot expiration is 30 days. CLI You can also configure this in the…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Automated security audits now available for skills.sh
skills.sh Skills on thenow have automated security audits to help developers use skills with confidence. Gen Socket Snyk Working with our partners,, and, these independent security reports allow us to rapidly scale and audit over 60,000 skills and counting. Skills.sh provides greater ecosystem…
Vercel (blog + changelog)
Recraft V4 on AI Gateway
Recraft V4 is now available on AI Gateway. A text-to-image model built for professional design and marketing use cases, V4 was developed with input from working designers. The model has improvements with photorealism, with realistic skin, natural textures, and fewer synthetic artifacts. It also…
Smashing Magazine / CSS-Tricks / web.dev / Chrome for Developers / LogRocket
Navigation API - a better way to navigate, is now Baseline Newly Available
The Navigation API is now Baseline Newly available, providing a better way to handle navigation in single-page applications.
Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis
Announcing the Platform Team at EF
Platform is a new team inside the EF with one goal: Deliver the strongest possible Ethereum platform, where L1 and L2s are best positioned to support users, apps, and all organizations building on Ethereum. This requires improving the L1 \ L2 relationship, so that we grow as a mutually...
Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis
Ethereum Protocol Studies 2026
tl;dr: Ethereum Protocol Studies returns for 2026 with new content tracks in cryptography, lean consensus and zkEVM, plus a new self-paced learning platform. The program kicks off February 23rd. Visit epf.wiki to get started. Ethereum Protocol Studies (EPS) is back. Since launching as a 10-week…
Language blogs: Rust / Go / TypeScript / Swift / Kotlin / Java / .NET / Ruby / PHP / Elixir / ISO C++
Using go fix to modernize Go code
Go 1.26 includes a new implementation of go fix that can help you use more modern features of Go.
