The big tech company conferences continued this summer with Vercel hosting Vercel Ship 2025. As you’d expect there was lots of talk about AI and Vercel’s AI Cloud: tools, infrastructure, and platform enhancements to build AI agents and help AI agents use Vercel.

On July 1, hosting platform Cloudflare declared Content Independence Day, and changed its settings to block AI crawlers by default unless they pay creators for their content. While we absolutely support this move, Cloudflare’s future vision of a marketplace where content creators and AI companies come together and compensation is based on how much content “furthers knowledge” seems idealistic, but we’ll have to wait and see.

Serverless Postgres database company Neon has a new product called Neon Launchpad that can create an instant Neon database with zero configuration or account creation. Users get an automatically generated connection string, 72 hours to claim a new database, and even automatic database seeding with SQL scripts for schema and data initialization.

Timestamps:

2:13 - Vercel Ship event updates
7:49 - Cloudfare declares content independence day
16:12 - Neon Launchpad
20:03 - Figma IPO
22:24 - Deno v. Oracle trademark update
25:10 - Antropic lets Claude run a vending machine
32:21 - What’s making us happy

Links:

News:
- Paige - Cloudflare declares July 1 Content Independence Day
- Jack - Neon Launchpad instant DBs
- TJ - Vercel Ship 2025
Lightning:
What Makes Us Happy this Week:
- Paige - Squid Game season 3
- Jack - F1: The Movie
- TJ - Bobby Banilla Day

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