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Parallel Decisions now available on AI Gateway for free

Parallel Decisions Fast is now available on AI Gateway at no cost until November 23, 2026. It searches the live web to answer questions about companies, products, policies, and other dynamic information, providing probabilities and cited evidence. The model supports boolean, choice, and score question types, with related questions sharing context and evidence in a single request. It can be used to enrich CRM records, verify claims, check eligibility, or route leads. The model name is 'parallel/parallel-decisions-fast', requiring no separate Parallel account. Citations include source URLs, optional titles, and excerpts, applicable to the entire request. Applications can act on high-probability answers and route uncertain ones for review. Requests are tracked in AI Gateway logs and spend budgets.

WTF are evals? How to test agents and the software they use

Agents interact with software through a funnel similar to humans: Discovery, Selection, Access, and Success. To measure whether agents complete user tasks correctly, end-to-end (E2E) evaluations are essential. These evaluations assess the full sequence of steps an agent takes, ensuring outcomes meet user requirements. Using frameworks like Harbor, developers can design tasks with defined environments, verifiers, and known-good solutions, then run trials across variants to measure success rate, pass@k, pass^k, efficiency, time, and cost. Analyzing traces reveals root causes of failures, enabling targeted improvements. Iterative evaluation helps catch regressions, test changes, and guide product development, turning evaluations into ongoing infrastructure for building better agent-driven products.

Gemini Decision 1 now available on AI Gateway

Google's Gemini Decision 1, a multimodal decision model supporting text, images, audio, video, and PDFs, is now accessible via AI Gateway. It provides Boolean probabilities, choices, and scores for tasks like request routing, policy checks, tool filtering, and result ranking without generating output tokens. Supported through the AI SDK, TypeSafe-compatible API, and Decisions API, with PDF, audio, and video inputs available in AI SDK 7. Decision calls are logged and counted toward budgets alongside other model requests.

Wake me up when AI can...

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Decision models take 26% of requests; Anthropic now wins new teams 2:1

In November 2026, decision models accounted for 26% of all AI Gateway requests and 0.53% of total spend, with adoption highest among high-volume teams—70% of those processing over 10 billion tokens monthly used a decision model. Voice model usage rose 2.6 times since July, reaching 11% of paid teams. OpenAI and Anthropic now serve nearly equal shares of paid teams, but Anthropic gained more new teams (2:1), while OpenAI’s share of gateway spend increased by two-thirds since December. Over half of language-model requests went to models less than two months old, reflecting rapid model turnover with a median half-life of six weeks. In October, Anthropic’s Opus 5.5 became the top model by spend, and image and video model usage reached record levels, with OpenAI’s GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst leading image spend and ByteDance’s Seedance 2.5 leading video spend.

Chat SDK agents can now stream generative UI with json-render

Vercel introduces json-render, enabling Chat SDK agents to generate and stream interactive UI components as JSON specs, which are converted into platform-native cards (e.g., Block Kit on Slack, Adaptive Cards on Teams). The system uses a typed component catalog covering tables, charts, buttons, and more, eliminating the need for separate tools. It supports streaming updates with real-time edits every 500 ms, validates component specs against schemas, and enforces platform-specific message limits to prevent content degradation.

Copilot impact dashboard adds chat and VS Code agent usage

The Agent adoption chart in the Copilot impact dashboard now includes Copilot Chat and the VS Code Agents window, so you can see engagement across nine Copilot experiences. The adoption… The post Copilot impact dashboard adds chat and VS Code agent usage appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Evaluate Vercel Flags from another project without sharing SDK keys.

Project Connections allow applications to evaluate flags from another Vercel project within the same team without managing SDK keys, using deployment identity for authentication. Access is managed via the Connections page or CLI, grants read-only access across all environments, and can be revoked without redeployment. Requires @flags-sdk/vercel 1.6.0 or later, or @vercel/flags-core 1.11.0 or later, and Vercel CLI 63.0.0 or later for CLI management.

How Mercor ships internal apps and billions of production tokens on one platform

Mercor reduced batch job processing time from 12 hours to 2–3 hours by using Vercel AI Gateway, which provided increased inference capacity and failover routing across providers. In its first 10 days on the platform, Mercor routed 18 million requests and 63 billion tokens without hitting rate limits. The company also leveraged Vercel Passport and its internal Audiences product to provision secure access for hundreds of business teams and over 2,000 projects in seconds, enabling rapid deployment of client-specific applications while maintaining strict usage controls and automated offboarding.

Introducing Vercel Security Review

Vercel introduces Security Review, a new feature in Vercel Agent that automatically scans for vulnerabilities in code changes pushed to connected GitHub repositories. It provides real-time findings via pull request comments, a Security dashboard, and CLI access, with options to auto-fix issues using Vercel Agent or integrate with custom coding agents. The tool checks for logic flaws, enforces team-specific security policies, tracks vulnerabilities across deployments, and supports audit logging for Enterprise users. Available now in public beta for Pro and Enterprise teams, it is free until November 10, 2026.

Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees

Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to up to 60,000 employees across the US, UK, Canada, and India. In a message to employees, Microsoft chief people officer Amy Coleman writes that this gives staff members "the opportunity to leave Microsoft with financial support and career planning resources" as the company looks to trim staff without another […]

Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees
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