Drives for Vercel Sandbox are now in public beta
Drives for Vercel Sandbox are now available in public beta on Hobby, Pro, and Enterprise. A Drive is persistent storage that you mount as a directory in a Vercel Sandbox. It isn’t tied to a single sandbox, so you can reuse the same Drive across runs and different sandbox instances.
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Shopify connector (Beta)
The Shopify connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests e-commerce data such as products, orders, customers, inventory, fulfillments, and discounts from Shopify into Databricks. Authentication uses the Shopify OAuth client credentials grant.
Lakebase backup schedule API (Beta)
You can now manage Lakebase backup schedules programmatically. The snapshot schedule API lets you read and set a root branch's automated snapshot cadences (daily, weekly, or monthly) and how long each cadence's snapshots are retained. This API is in Beta and available to all Lakebase workspaces. See Create a backup schedule .
OpenAI GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
Today, AWS announces the general availability of GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. Expanding the GPT-6 family alongside Astra, these two models give teams more ways to balance intelligence, speed, and cost across every workload. Sol is the daily model for recurring complex tasks and software development.
Claude Opus 5.5 launches with a 1M token context window and 128k output
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 for long-running agentic coding and knowledge work, with a default 1M token context, 128k max output and always-on adaptive thinking. It costs $4 / $20 per MTok, below Claude Opus 5, and is on the Claude API, Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry.
Fast mode research preview available for Claude Opus 5.5 on the Claude API
Fast mode, in research preview, can now be used with Claude Opus 5.5 on the Claude API.
Claude API beta lets tools be defined inside mid-conversation system messages
With the inline-tools-2026-09-15 beta header, a tool_addition block can carry a full tool definition, so agents can add tools, change schemas or upgrade server tools mid-conversation without invalidating the prompt cache. The same header covers adding and removing tools by reference.
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GPT-6 Sol and Luna now available on AI Gateway
GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna from OpenAI are now available on AI Gateway . Both models bring GPT-6 improvements in professional work, coding, computer use, factuality, and communication at a lower price than GPT-6 Astra .
Claude Opus 5.5 now available on AI Gateway
Claude Opus 5.5 from Anthropic is now available on AI Gateway . It is a step-change improvement over Opus 5 , with its biggest gains in agentic coding, long-running agent tasks, and knowledge work. Anthropic cites that Opus 5.5 performs at the level of Fable 5.1, but ~30% faster and ~40% cheaper than Opus 5 per task.
Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech models now available on AI Gateway
Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS from Google are now available on AI Gateway . Both models take text and generate speech in more than 100 languages. They support long-form narration, control over delivery, and two-speaker dialogue.
MiMo V2.6 models now available on AI Gateway
MiMo V2.6 Pro , MiMo V2.6 Flash , and MiMo V2.6 Pro UltraSpeed from Xiaomi are now available on AI Gateway . MiMo V2.6 combines coding, reasoning, and tool use with native text, image, audio, and video understanding.
AI Gateway now supports TypeSafe clients and an HTTP API for Jev
You can now call Jev from TypeSafe AI through AI Gateway using an existing TypeSafe client or the HTTP API, in addition to the AI SDK. TypeSafe client: Point an existing TypeSafe client at AI Gateway without changing its evaluation calls. HTTP API: Call Jev directly from any language or framework. AI SDK: Call Jev from a TypeScript application using AI SDK.
Grok 4.7 now available and 40% off on AI Gateway, fx, and eve
Grok 4.7 from SpaceXAI is now available on AI Gateway and 40% off through September 27. The discount applies automatically when you call spacexai/grok-4.7 . Grok 4.7 has a 500K token context window and supports low, medium, high, and xhigh reasoning levels, giving you control over the tradeoff between latency and depth.
Pixel Canary is now available in stealth for free on AI Gateway
Pixel Canary is now available on AI Gateway as stealth/pixel-canary . It's free for a limited time while in stealth. Pixel Canary is strong at coding, including building applications and refactoring existing code.
Vercel Sandbox now supports memory observability
Vercel Sandbox observability now includes memory usage data. You can access sandbox memory usage data in the dashboard and through the CLI via the vercel metrics command.