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DeepSeek V4 Flash routed to Novita on Vercel AI Gateway is 90% off for Pro customers through August 11, dropping the effective rate to $0.014 input / $0.028 output per million tokens. Here is the verified before/after math, the provider-pinning setup, and what a 10x cheap agent loop means for routing decisions.
Liquid AI shipped LFM2.5-2.6B on August 4, 2026: a 2.6B open-weight model trained for agentic work inside real harnesses, decoding at 220 tokens/s on an M5 Max and 113 tokens/s on a Ryzen CPU. Here is how it was trained, what the benchmarks say, and how to run it.
Next.js 16.3 ships the biggest update since 16.0: opt-in Instant Navigations with partial prefetching, up to 90% less dev-server RAM, cached repeat builds up to 5.5x faster, native Node.js streams for SSR, and an AGENTS.md block that points coding agents at version-matched docs.
On August 4 Cloudflare launched the Agent Development Lifecycle: agent traces with session replay, @cloudflare/ci for CI/CD as Workflows, and local OpenTelemetry. A software factory is no longer just an idea, it is a platform product.
Cloudflare launched a single endpoint that returns account usage and cost per product in a FOCUS-aligned shape. For teams whose agents provision infrastructure, the dashboard is no longer the only way to see what a month costs.
Cloudflare's new CI SDK runs pipelines as Workflows: TypeScript instead of YAML, cached sandbox steps, artifact-push triggers, and a healing agent that fixes failed builds. Here is how it works and what it means for platforms.
Day three of Agents Week brought Cloudflare Wallets: Account Wallets for humans and Virtual Wallets for agents, x402 stablecoin micropayments for APIs and content, and human-readable agent identity at handles like research.example.cloudflare.pay.
A Microsoft Research analysis of 3.2M users and 761M LLM calls shows coding agent traffic is 87% agent-initiated, burns KV cache at turn boundaries, and punishes every tool failure with up to 4x compute.
GitHub Enterprise Importer now supports self-serve GitLab to GitHub migrations in GA. gh gl2gh exports GitLab projects, transforms merge requests into pull requests, and stages archives in GitHub or your own blob storage. Here is what actually moves and what you rebuild.
Shieldstral is a 3B-parameter Apache 2.0 multimodal safety classifier that takes your moderation policy as a plain-language question at inference time, scores content 0-1 in a single forward pass, and runs on one 16GB GPU. It beats 12B-20B guard models on text safety and sets state of the art on multimodal benchmarks.
The agent is only as good as the prompt, and the best prompts are the ones you would speak. How to dictate context-rich prompts into an agent CLI like OpenCode hands-free: hotkeys, snippets, dictionary, and Command Mode.
Cloudflare's Agents Week opens with @cloudflare/computer, an open-source agent runtime where an SQLite-backed workspace gives every agent a shared filesystem and lets the model pick between fast isolates and full Linux containers per task. The bet: containers for under 10% of agent work.
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