v0 apps can now connect to Slack, Notion, GitHub and 100+ services
Vercel Connect handles the OAuth so a v0 app reaches real data — plus an image-model leaderboard on OpenRouter and a US-inference surcharge in Claude Code.
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One prompt from your real data
v0 apps can now securely reach 100+ third-party services — Slack, Google, Notion, GitHub, Salesforce — through Vercel Connect, which brokers the OAuth handshake for you. A generated prototype can read and write your actual tools without you hand-rolling auth, turning a weekend internal tool into a couple of prompts.
Pick an image model on evidence
OpenRouter added Image Benchmarks and public image-model rankings, so you can compare every image model's quality and price side by side before wiring one in. Handy the moment you're choosing between gpt-image-2 and its rivals for a generation pipeline.
Claude Code now shows the US-inference tax
Claude Code 2.1.239's cost tools — /cost, the status line, and --max-budget-usd — now fold in the 1.1× premium charged on US-only inference for data-residency workspaces. If you're on one, your real spend is roughly 10% above the sticker, and the CLI finally surfaces it.
Elsewhere: the best model at doing ML research
Prime Intellect's open autonomous-research experiment — 153 runs across 18 frontier models on the nanoGPT speedrun — is back on Hacker News' front page. Claude Fable 5 led, closing ~82% of the gap to a record humans took months to set, and the full traces and harness are public to run yourself.