Firebase's Imagen models shut down today, August 17, 2026, after Google moved the deadline twice from an original June 30, 2026 cutoff, according to Firebase's migration guide. The replacement, Gemini…
Firebase's JavaScript SDK deprecated VertexAIBackend in version 12.17.0, released July 30, 2026, replacing it with AgentPlatformBackend, which defaults to the global region instead of us-central1, a b…
Vercel's Sandbox now defaults to an open-source image with Claude Code, Codex, and opencode preinstalled, replacing its old fixed Node and Python runtimes. Starting with version 3 of the Sandbox SDK, …
Netlify's AI Gateway now routes requests through OpenRouter to reach models from DeepSeek, Meta, Mistral, Qwen, and xAI, but only those whose providers guarantee Zero Data Retention (ZDR) at request t…
Firebase CLI 15.26.0, released Aug 5, now auto-detects when an AI agent is running it and switches to non-interactive mode to prevent hanging on prompts, according to GitHub release notes. The update …
Vercel patched two AI SDK packages after researchers showed that code running inside a Vercel Sandbox could forge an AI model's tool call and reach host-level operations, including secret lookups and …
Vercel and five other companies shipped Agent Plugins 1.0.0 on Aug. 6, a shared packaging format for AI agent skills and MCP server configs that lets developers build a plugin once and install it into…
Netlify split Agent Runners into Ask and Build modes on July 30, 2026, so an AI coding agent can answer a question about a codebase without shipping a Deploy Preview. Ask mode is read-only, while Buil…
Vercel's hosted MCP servers and its mcp-handler library now support the stateless 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification, which eliminates persistent sessions in favor of self-contained HTTP …
Firebase will retire its Extensions marketplace on March 31, 2027, the third major product wind-down in about a year after Firebase Studio and Firebase ML. Already-installed extensions will continue r…
Vercel Passport reached general availability on July 31, 2026, gating internal apps and AI agents behind a company's own identity provider, including Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Auth0, or any OpenID Con…
Vercel added "Sign in with ChatGPT" as a beta authentication option on July 29, 2026, letting developers log into Vercel and v0 using an OpenAI account instead of email, GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket. …
Firebase AI Logic now supports Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, models Google shipped on July 21, 2026, with lower pricing than the previous Gemini 3.5 Flash. Gemini 3.6 Flash cuts output-t…
Vercel's AI SDK version ai@7.0.19, released July 9, 2026, adds fingerprintTools and detectToolDrift functions to catch Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools whose description, schema, or title silently c…
Netlify added a per-member AI credit cap for Team Owners on Pro plans as of July 15, 2026, allowing them to limit individual Agent Runners spend after complaints that a single agent could drain a team…
Netlify rebuilt Netlify Functions configuration into typed code, replacing magic filenames so AI coding agents can discover and edit settings reliably, as detailed in a June 25, 2026 blog post. The up…
Firebase now automatically enables App Check for new AI Logic apps during the console setup flow, closing a common security gap where developers shipped apps with an open Gemini API proxy. Starting ea…
Google declared Genkit's Go SDK production-ready on June 18, 2026, with backward API compatibility guaranteed across all future 1.x releases, and shipped stable plugins for Anthropic Claude, Vertex AI…
Genkit JS v1.39.0, released June 26, 2026, removes the beta Chat API and replaces it with a production-ready Agents framework built around defineAgent(), which includes stateful sessions, pluggable pe…
Firebase AI Logic now integrates Gemini cloud models into Apple's Foundation Models framework via the public LanguageModel protocol introduced at WWDC 2026, targeting iOS 27, macOS 27, iPadOS 27, and …