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Up from ~446K a year ago, with agents, tool-execution approval, full MCP support, and DevTools that show step-by-step LLM/agent calls (Vercel). Agent tracing and observability is becoming a free SDK feature rather than a standalone paid product. If you were planning to pay for an agent-monitoring SaaS, check what your SDK already gives you first.
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Monthly AI token traffic is up roughly tenfold, and AI SDK 6 adds agents, tool-execution approval, DevTools, and full MCP support (IT Brief). The deploy trigger, long a human CI action, is becoming an agent action. That reshapes what a platform optimizes for: agent throughput...
Satya Nadella said companies routing everything through a single proprietary lab may not survive. His argument: you hand that lab your most sensitive business context, and the lab can turn it against you as a competitor. His prescription is an orchestration layer — keep the ha...
At Vercel Ship 26 in London today, Guillermo Rauch launched what he's calling the Agent Stack: AI SDK, AI Gateway, Sandbox, Workflow SDK, and Chat SDK, plus a new Vercel Connect and a set of enterprise agent controls. Vercel is repositioning the entire platform around running...
Announced at Vercel Ship 2026, AI SDK 7 converts a model-abstraction library into a toolkit for agents that reason, call tools, run across many turns, and work across files and sandboxes, behind one provider-agnostic interface. Vercel paired it with Eve (define agent instructi...
Practitioner guides now treat an MCP server as mandatory SaaS packaging in 2026, citing adoption from Anthropic's Nov-2024 launch (~2M monthly SDK downloads) to OpenAI (~22M) to Microsoft Copilot Studio (~45M). The distribution inversion: products win by being callable inside...
Runlayer raised a $30M Series A co-led by Felicis and Khosla to build a control plane that brokers what enterprise agents can access across tools and data (Tech Startups). It lands the same week MCP's Enterprise-Managed Authorization extension went stable and Vercel shipped "P...
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