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OpenAI Assistants API was sunset on August 26, 2026
OpenAI’s Assistants API reaches its shutdown deadline on August 26, 2026. OpenAI recommends Responses API and Conversations API, with documented mappings from Assistants to configuration or prompt structures,…
Treat August 26 as an operational deadline, not a feature launch or a find-and-replace exercise. OpenAI documents object and orchestration changes, including explicit tool-loop…
Google Imagen 4 API shutdown date passed on August 17, 2026
Google announced that imagen-4.0-generate-001, imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-001 and imagen-4.0-fast-generate-001 are deprecated. Its deprecations table lists August 17, 2026 as the earliest possible shutdown date and recommends gemini-3.1-flash-image.
Plan against August 17 while preserving Google’s wording: the deprecations page says listed dates are the earliest possible shutdown dates and that exact timing…
Anthropic retired Claude Opus 4.1 on August 5, 2026
Anthropic announced the retirement of claude-opus-4-1-20250805 on the Claude API for August 5, 2026 and recommends claude-opus-4-8. Anthropic notes that partner-platform schedules can differ from its operated API…
Treat August 5 as a model retirement deadline, not a product launch or a blind model-ID replacement. Inventory traffic by provider, confirm which schedule…
DeepSeek V4-Flash-0731 launches in API beta with native Codex support
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 as the official V4-Flash API public beta. The checkpoint keeps the preview model’s architecture and size but adds new post-training, native Responses API support, and…
Worth testing for cost-sensitive coding-agent workloads because it combines native Codex support, a one-million-token context window, very low API pricing and MIT-licensed weights. Treat…
OpenAI releases Codex Security CLI and TypeScript SDK in limited beta
OpenAI published the Codex Security command-line client and TypeScript SDK. The CLI supports repository and change review, bulk scans, history, CI workflows, SARIF output and false-positive feedback. The…
The CLI and SDK make Codex Security easier to insert into repeatable engineering workflows and expose useful integration primitives such as typed findings, SARIF,…
TruthSpine V1 launches as a local-first project-context desktop app
TimeProof Labs announced TruthSpine V1 as live after publishing its public product hub and release packages. The local-first desktop application builds a compact project context from selected sources…
TruthSpine V1 addresses a real developer problem with a concrete local-first design: preserve project decisions and sources once, then reuse compact context across agents.…
kausable raises €12 million for adaptive causal AI
Heidelberg-based kausable raised a verified €12 million seed round to develop causal AI models intended to adapt to new contexts with minimal data.
kausable seed round addresses a concrete need: The funding backs a technically different approach to adaptive AI, but claims about eliminating retraining and handling…
GitHub Issues adds agent automation controls
GitHub added public-preview approval, confidence, and rationale controls for agent-driven changes to issue labels, fields, types, status, and assignees.
Agent automation controls in GitHub Issues addresses a concrete need: The controls make issue automation more observable and reviewable, but GitHub explicitly says approvals…
GitHub Copilot cloud agent for Linear reaches general availability
GitHub made its Copilot cloud agent integration for Linear generally available, allowing teams to assign Linear issues to an asynchronous coding agent.
Copilot cloud agent for Linear addresses a concrete need: The integration moves agent assignment into an issue tracker that many software teams already use,…
Google currently lists no Gemini 2.5 Pro shutdown date
No forced migration date is currently announced. Teams may still evaluate newer models, but October 16 must not be treated as an official cutoff.
No forced migration date is currently announced. Teams may still evaluate newer models, but October 16 must not be treated as an official cutoff.
Kastra runtime authorization for AI agents
Kastra applies policies to tools, prompts, inputs, and outputs across several agent environments. Its product pages describe local enforcement, centralized policy management, audit trails, and integrations spanning coding…
Kastra addresses a concrete need: As agents gain access to files, credentials, and operational systems, authorization must happen at action time. The main limitation…
box by ASCII persistent virtual machines for coding agents
A box is a persistent Ubuntu machine with SSH and SCP access, Docker, a dedicated IPv4 address, a virtual desktop, snapshots, and disk-level forking. The official docs provide…
box by ASCII addresses a concrete need: Long-running and parallel coding agents need isolated computers with persistent state. The main limitation is this: The…
Humalike social behavior plugin for Hermes Agent
The open plugin connects Hermes to Humalike’s behavioral APIs. It can decide when the agent should join a conversation, rewrite replies to match a group’s style, build a…
Humalike x Hermes addresses a concrete need: Agent quality in group settings depends on timing, restraint, and social context as well as answer quality.…
Gemini changes sampling and turn-validation rules for new models
Google deprecated temperature, top_p and top_k for Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and later Gemini models. The named models ignore those parameters; future generations will return HTTP…
Remove these legacy controls before migrating to Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite or later releases. Sampling parameters are ignored on the current named…
Creed portable Markdown context for AI agents
Creed launched a portable Markdown-based context file that gives supported AI agents a user-controlled record of preferences, projects, and working style.
Creed addresses a concrete need: Users increasingly move among several assistants, while the context each one learns usually stays trapped in a product. The…
Kogvio contextual AI browser extension
Kogvio launched a browser extension that lets users highlight text, equations, diagrams, or other visible content and ask an AI question without leaving the page.
Kogvio addresses a concrete need: Research tools often force users to copy material into a separate chat. The main limitation is this: The Chrome…
Replay QA autonomous web application testing loop
Replay QA launched an autonomous web-app testing loop that explores a URL or connected repository, records browser execution, finds bugs, and returns root-cause analysis with suggested fixes.
Replay QA addresses a concrete need: AI-assisted development has shortened build cycles without eliminating QA work; Replay QA packages browser execution evidence and debugging…
Skippr embeddable real-time product agent
Skippr AI launched an embeddable real-time agent that can speak with users, understand an application's context, demonstrate workflows, and operate the product with approval controls.
Skippr AI addresses a concrete need: Skippr represents a product-interface trend in which software companies embed an agent that can demonstrate and operate the…
Daily radar
Latest verified AI launches
A Radar edition publishes only when the day has enough source-ready signal; the tracker continues to show the newest verified records.
No source-ready records are tagged for today yet, so this section is showing the latest public launch records available in the tracker.
RayNeo iO
Summary: RayNeo announced the iO smart glasses on August 21, 2026. The official product page labels the device as coming September 4; it is an announced product,…
Why it matters: RayNeo iO is a legitimate product announcement with a dated commercial-launch target, but it is not yet a shipping product. Treat hardware, AI-assistant, battery,…
- Pricing
- The official product page advertises an early-bird offer and an extra discount but does not expose a reliable final product price in the reviewed page text. RayNeo states a September 4 launch; verify regional pricing and shipping status at release.
- Verification
- Source-verified; 3 sources
Attentive AI Grow
Summary: Attentive announced the general availability of AI Grow on August 19, 2026. The product analyzes browsing and shopping behavior among identified and logged-out visitors to decide…
Why it matters: AI Grow is a commercially relevant launch because it applies AI to an established subscriber-acquisition workflow, is generally available, and is measured with cohort-level…
- Pricing
- Attentive does not publish AI Grow list pricing in the reviewed launch materials. The product is available to Attentive customers through a sales or demo path.
- Verification
- Source-verified; 2 sources
WethosAI Twins
Summary: WethosAI launched Twins on August 18, 2026 as part of its Human Context Platform. The company says organizations can use the capability through its SaaS product,…
Why it matters: Twins is an intriguing enterprise decision-rehearsal launch because WethosAI states explicit permission, access-control, and non-impersonation boundaries. The vendor has not published independent predictive-validity evidence…
- Pricing
- Public list pricing was not disclosed in the reviewed launch materials. WethosAI offers a request-a-briefing or demo path for the SaaS platform and enterprise/API use.
- Verification
- Source-verified; 3 sources
Cerebras CS-4
Summary: Cerebras introduced CS-4 on August 18, 2026. The company describes a redesigned rack-scale system using three WSE-3 Turbo processors, a modular Nexus platform, native disaggregated-inference support,…
Why it matters: Cerebras CS-4 is a consequential AI-infrastructure launch with a concrete shipment window and architectural changes beyond a processor refresh. Its headline speed, throughput, and…
- Pricing
- Public list pricing was not disclosed in the reviewed launch sources. Cerebras directs buyers to contact sales, and the company says first shipments begin this quarter.
- Verification
- Source-verified; 3 sources
ChatGPT for Teens
Summary: OpenAI announced ChatGPT for Teens on August 18, 2026. Eligible users aged 13 to 17, including accounts the system estimates are under 18, are placed into…
Why it matters: A material ChatGPT update for teens and families because it attaches defined learning features and default protections to a distinct under-18 experience. Kingy has…
- Pricing
- OpenAI does not list a separate ChatGPT for Teens price. The help documentation says eligible accounts remain active when the teen experience is enabled; plan eligibility, feature limits, and regional rollout can vary and should be checked before relying on access.
- Verification
- Source-verified; 2 sources
DeepSeek Harness developer preview
Summary: DeepSeek opened the DeepSeek Harness developer preview and published its source code on August 13, 2026. The official landing page and repository describe an agent harness…
Why it matters: This is a substantive launch for developers because DeepSeek published both a runnable package and the source behind a composable agent runtime. Treat it…
- Pricing
- The source code is published under the MIT License and the documented local start path does not list a purchase price. The reviewed official sources do not advertise a paid hosted tier. Local use requires a compatible Node.js runtime and the user's own model or service costs may still apply.
- Verification
- Source-verified; 6 sources
Plan ahead
Upcoming Deadlines
Future-dated migration, shutdown, and retirement records are separated from today's launches and latest-record lists. These dates are upcoming operational events, not launches that have already happened.
OpenAI Agent Builder shutdown deadline: November 30, 2026
Summary: OpenAI announced the Agent Builder lifecycle deadline: the visual workflow builder is deprecated and scheduled to shut down on November 30, 2026. OpenAI documents two migration…
Why it matters: Treat November 30 as a workflow migration deadline, not a new product launch and not a one-line model swap. Export each workflow, inventory nodes,…
- Pricing
- There is no separate shutdown or migration fee. Replacement API usage and ChatGPT workspace access follow current OpenAI pricing; engineering, evaluation, observability and rollback work remain implementation costs.
- Verification
- Recheck due; 5 sources
OpenAI GPT Image API shutdown deadline: December 1, 2026
Summary: OpenAI announced an API lifecycle deadline for gpt-image-1-mini, gpt-image-1.5 and chatgpt-image-latest. Those model IDs are scheduled to shut down on December 1, 2026, with gpt-image-2 listed…
Why it matters: Treat December 1 as a production migration deadline, not an image-model launch. Change the pinned model ID in a test environment, then compare output…
- Pricing
- There is no separate migration fee. GPT Image 2 is billed under current API token pricing, which varies with text and image input, output, size and quality; teams should remeasure cost on representative jobs rather than carry forward old per-image assumptions.
- Verification
- Recheck due; 4 sources
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