The week moved from model access to where the model actually runs
Waymo Nashville and Waypoint-1.5, and The Deploy Log for this week. Every price and claim read off the publisher's own page, with a call on each.
Waymo
Waymo Nashville
DEPLOYif you ride or drive in Nashville
WHAT SHIPPEDWaymo opened its fully autonomous ride-hailing service to public riders in Nashville with an initial 60-square-mile service area covering Broadway, 12 South, Midtown, and East Nashville.
THE CATCHThe service is rolling out by invitation, and airport service is still in testing, so a downtown ride does not yet mean an airport pickup.
IF YOU RUNa Nashville commute or a night out on Broadway and want a ride without a driver
SOURCEWaymo, Your Waymo ride, now arriving in Nashville
Hugging Face
Waypoint-1.5
WATCHif you build games or simulations
WHAT SHIPPEDOverworld released Waypoint-1.5, a real-time video world model with 720p and 360p tiers that runs locally on RTX 3090 through 5090 hardware at up to 60 FPS.
THE CATCHThe 1B model weights are available, but Apple Silicon support is listed as soon rather than now.
IF YOU RUNa local machine with a consumer GPU and want to test interactive generative worlds
SOURCEHugging Face, Waypoint-1.5: Higher-Fidelity Interactive Worlds for Everyday GPUs
The Deploy Log
Models and APIs
| DEPLOYif you build multimodal RAG Multimodal Sentence Transformers. Sentence Transformers v5.4 adds multimodal embedding and reranker models that encode and compare text, images, audio, and video through the same API, with Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B and Qwen3-VL-Reranker-2B supported. Hugging Face |
Tools and products
| WATCHif you run human-in-the-loop coding workflows Opus 4.6 Fast Mode. Claude Opus 4.6 Fast Mode is available on AI Gateway with 2.5x faster output token speeds at 6x standard Opus rates, $30 per 1M input tokens and $150 per 1M output tokens. Vercel |
| DEPLOYif compliance cost matters to you ZDR pricing. Team-wide Zero Data Retention costs $0.10 per 1,000 requests for Pro and Enterprise teams, while per-request ZDR is free and Disallow Prompt Training is free for all users. Vercel |
| DEPLOYif you run resource-intensive sandboxes Sandbox 32 vCPU. Vercel Sandbox now supports up to 32 vCPUs and 64 GB of RAM for Enterprise customers running large CPU-bound or memory-heavy applications. Vercel |
| DEPLOYif you run Next.js App Router CVE-2026-23869. A high-severity React Server Components vulnerability with CVSS 7.5 can cause denial of service, and Vercel deployed WAF rules to protect all hosted projects while requiring upgrades to patched versions 15.5.15 and 16.2.3. Vercel |
Robotics, hardware and chips
| WATCHif you work in city transportation Waze pothole pilot. Waymo and Waze launched a pilot that uses Waymo perception systems to detect potholes and shares the data through Waze for Cities, starting in five metro areas where Waymo has identified approximately 500 potholes. Waymo |
Left out
- Brand Studio: the publisher's page does not show it available yet
- GLM 5.1: the publisher's page does not show it available yet
- Chat SDK Liveblocks: the publisher's page does not show it available yet
- Database tab display: the publisher's page does not show it available yet
- Axios compromise response: the publisher's page does not show it available yet
- Desktop voice input: it did not carry a number that moved
- Shared AI chats: it did not carry a number that moved
- Mute discussion replies: it did not carry a number that moved
- Page cover art: it did not carry a number that moved
- Dashboard database tools: it did not carry a number that moved
- CLI local scope: it did not carry a number that moved
- Microfrontends AI skill: it did not carry a number that moved
- Workflow query builder: it did not carry a number that moved
- Sandbox CLI: it did not carry a number that moved
- Team-wide ZDR: it did not carry a number that moved
- Django zero-config: it did not carry a number that moved
- Anomaly alert rules: it did not carry a number that moved
The pattern
The week moved from model access to where the model actually runs. Waymo opened a fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Nashville with a 60-square-mile area, while Overworld released Waypoint-1.5 for local RTX 3090 through 5090 hardware at up to 60 FPS. Vercel priced Claude Opus 4.6 Fast Mode at $30 per 1M input tokens and $150 per 1M output tokens, and made Team-wide Zero Data Retention cost $0.10 per 1,000 requests. Vercel Sandbox now supports 32 vCPUs and 64 GB of RAM for Enterprise customers. Sentence Transformers v5.4 added Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B and Qwen3-VL-Reranker-2B for text, images, audio, and video through the same API.
The same week, Waymo and Waze launched a pothole pilot across five metro areas with approximately 500 potholes identified, and Vercel deployed WAF rules for CVE-2026-23869, a CVSS 7.5 React Server Components vulnerability requiring upgrades to 15.5.15 and 16.2.3. A Nashville ride does not yet mean an airport pickup, Apple Silicon support for Waypoint-1.5 is soon rather than now, and per-request ZDR is free while Disallow Prompt Training is free for all users.