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Short briefs on AI news, tools and workflows — researched from official announcements and documentation, checked before publishing. One every weekday.

  1. Published News

    Available now

    Vercel adds NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning to AI Gateway for free

    Vercel's AI Gateway now offers NVIDIA's open-weight Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model at no charge, with a note that the provider may keep prompts.

    Vercel · Announced

  2. Published Tool

    Available now

    Cloudflare Hyperdrive MySQL support is now generally available

    Cloudflare's database connection pooler for Workers now supports MySQL in GA, after a rare caching bug that returned empty query results was fixed.

    Cloudflare · Announced

  3. Published News

    Rolling out

    GitHub Copilot adds Google's Gemini 4 Argon model for paid plans

    Gemini 4 Argon is now generally available in GitHub Copilot for Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise users, with a gradual rollout across editors and the CLI.

    GitHub · Announced

  4. Published News

    Available now

    Google releases Gemini 4 Argon AI model for developers and paid subscribers

    Google's new Gemini 4 Argon AI model is live in the API, Antigravity, the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search, with an introductory price for API use.

    Google AI · Announced

  5. Published Tool

    Available now

    Shopify launches Shop MCP for agent search and Shop Pay checkout

    Shop MCP gives MCP-compatible agents one connection to search Shopify Catalog, build carts and complete Shop Pay checkout.

    Shopify · Announced

  6. Published News

    Available now

    GitHub secret scanning now blocks Anthropic API keys by default and adds Salesforce

    GitHub added new secret types from Salesforce, Anthropic and Cloudsmith, and push protection now blocks two Anthropic key types by default.

    GitHub · Announced

  7. Published Workflow

    Available now

    GitHub adds least-privilege permissions and management tools for GitHub Apps

    New repository creation and installation permissions, easier app installs for repo admins, offline_access support and a Credentials tab are now in GitHub Apps.

    GitHub · Announced

  8. Published News

    Available now

    Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B, an open-weight on-device reasoning model

    Liquid AI's new 24B-parameter model uses 2B active parameters per token and is built for tool-calling agents that run on your own hardware.

    Hugging Face · Announced

The method

How a brief is checked.

  1. 01

    Official sources only

    Every brief starts from the company's own announcement or documentation, linked at the bottom with the day we checked it.

  2. 02

    Availability, spelled out

    Only “Available now” means you can use it today. Rolling out, beta, preview, announced and waitlist say exactly that.

  3. 03

    Prices as stated

    A price appears only when the official page states it, quoted word for word. We don't convert or estimate.

  4. 04

    Corrected in the open

    If we got something wrong, the correction sits at the top of the brief, not in a footnote.

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