[▲ Vercel Community](/) · [Categories](/categories) · [Latest](/latest) · [Top](/top) · [Live](/live) [Announcements](/c/announcements/27) # News Cache (2026-02-23) 117 views · 8 likes · 3 posts Amy Egan (@amyegan) · 2026-02-24 · ♥ 6 ### Top Highlights - **WebStreams Performance Breakthrough** — Vercel profiled Next.js server rendering and discovered that WebStreams themselves (not the application code) were the bottleneck, prompting a complete rewrite that achieved 10x faster performance by eliminating Promise chains and microtask queue overhead. - **AI Gateway Adds Video Generation** — AI Gateway now supports multiple video generation models including Grok Imagine Video, Google's Veo, Kling 3.0, and Alibaba's Wan models, enabling developers to create cinematic, photorealistic videos with synchronized audio through AI SDK 6. - **Private Storage for Vercel Blob (Public Beta)** — Vercel Blob now offers private storage with authentication-required access for sensitive files like contracts and invoices, preventing accidental exposure through public URLs. - **Billing Data Now Available via API** — Teams can now programmatically access billing usage and cost data through the new /billing/charges endpoint, which returns data in the FOCUS v1.3 open-standard format for seamless integration with FinOps tools. ### Community Projects - [Turn Boring Forms into Conversations.](https://community.vercel.com/t/turn-boring-forms-into-conversations/33992) - [Roadmap Navigator: Interactive Product Roadmap Tool](https://community.vercel.com/t/roadmap-navigator-interactive-product-roadmap-tool/34002) - [Skly, an AI Skills Marketplace, is built with Next.js and Supabase.](https://community.vercel.com/t/skly-an-ai-skills-marketplace-is-built-with-next-js-and-supabase/33827) - [🧱 Introducing Traits.dev - Treating System Prompts as Infrastructure](https://community.vercel.com/t/introducing-traits-dev-treating-system-prompts-as-infrastructure/33938) - [🚀 Path Extractor — Fix Broken SVG Icons and Ship Cleaner Code](https://community.vercel.com/t/path-extractor-fix-broken-svg-icons-and-ship-cleaner-code/33984) Don't forget to visit the #showcase to see what else everyone is building ### Weekly Leaderboard Congrats to last week's leaderboard champions 1. @heystu 2. @marnix-3108 3. @bestcodes ### Resources - [How Stably ships AI testing agents in hours, not weeks](https://vercel.com/blog/How-Stably-ships-AI-testing-agents-in-hours-not-weeks) - [We Ralph Wiggumed WebStreams to make them 10x faster](https://vercel.com/blog/we-ralph-wiggumed-webstreams-to-make-them-10x-faster) - [Video Generation with AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/blog/video-generation-with-ai-gateway) - [Skills Night: 69,000+ ways agents are getting smarter](https://vercel.com/blog/skills-night-69000-ways-agents-are-getting-smarter) ### Events - **Last Week** - [Next.js London Meetup](https://community.vercel.com/t/next-js-london-meetup/32188) - [Community Session: Building webvitals.com](https://community.vercel.com/t/community-session-building-webvitals-com/32147) - [Geodesic Developer Lab 2026 feat. Jeanne Grosser (Vercel COO)](https://community.vercel.com/t/geodesic-developer-lab-2026-feat-jeanne-grosser-vercel-coo/33334) - [Open Source Stories S2E4 - Chatjs](https://community.vercel.com/t/open-source-stories-s2e4-chatjs/32383) - [v0 Power Hour: Let's ship an agent](https://community.vercel.com/t/v0-power-hour-lets-ship-an-agent/33082) - **This Week** - [Open Source Stories S2E5 - OmniLens](https://community.vercel.com/t/open-source-stories-s2e5-omnilens/32384) - [Community Session: AI Gateway Video Models](https://community.vercel.com/t/community-session-ai-gateway-video-models/33415) - **Next Week** - [Open Source Stories S2E6 - Alinea](https://community.vercel.com/t/open-source-stories-s2e6-alinea/32385) - [AI Tinkerers London - 2nd March featuring AMA with Tom Occhino, CPO at Vercel](https://community.vercel.com/t/ai-tinkerers-london-2nd-march-featuring-ama-with-tom-occhino-cpo-at-vercel/34125) - [Agent Lab London](https://community.vercel.com/t/agent-lab-london/34124) - [Community Session: How Earmark Turns Conversations into Execution](https://community.vercel.com/t/community-session-how-earmark-turns-conversations-into-execution/31932) - [🇬🇧 Rewriting the Rules: Building for the Agent Era](https://community.vercel.com/t/rewriting-the-rules-building-for-the-agent-era/34121) - [Community Session: Sandbox AMA](https://community.vercel.com/t/community-session-sandbox-ama/33436) ### More Updates - [Qwen 3.5 Plus is on AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/changelog/qwen-3-5-plus-is-on-ai-gateway) - [Improved streaming runtime logs exports](https://vercel.com/changelog/improved-streaming-runtime-logs-exports) - [Claude Sonnet 4.6 is live on AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/changelog/claude-sonnet-4-6-is-live-on-ai-gateway) - [Vercel Sandbox snapshots now allow custom retention periods](https://vercel.com/changelog/vercel-sandbox-snapshots-now-allow-custom-retention-periods) - [Recraft V4 on AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/changelog/recraft-v4-on-ai-gateway) - [Automated security audits now available for skills.sh](https://vercel.com/changelog/automated-security-audits-now-available-for-skills-sh) - [Automatic build fix suggestions with Vercel Agent](https://vercel.com/changelog/automatic-build-fix-suggestions-with-vercel-agent) - [Redesigned search and filtering for runtime logs](https://vercel.com/changelog/redesigned-search-and-filtering-for-runtime-logs) - [Private storage for Vercel Blob, now available in public beta](https://vercel.com/changelog/private-storage-for-vercel-blob-now-available-in-public-beta) - [Gemini 3.1 Pro is live on AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/changelog/gemini-3-1-pro-is-live-on-ai-gateway) - [Streamdown 2.3 — Refreshed design and interactive playground](https://vercel.com/changelog/streamdown-2-3) - [Access billing usage and cost data via API](https://vercel.com/changelog/access-billing-usage-cost-data-api) - [Veo video models on AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/changelog/veo-video-models-on-ai-gateway) - [Kling video models on AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/changelog/kling-video-models-on-ai-gateway) - [Wan models on AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/changelog/wan-models-on-ai-gateway) - [Grok Imagine Video on AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/changelog/grok-imagine-video-on-ai-gateway) MarnixB (@marnix-3108) · 2026-02-24 · ♥ 1 Awesome shipping again! Really looking out for the private blob functionality. Would be awesome to use for invoicing or other kind of secured files. Pauline P. Narvas (@pawlean) · 2026-02-24 · ♥ 1 100% I can't wait!