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2 recordsSeptember 13, 2026 – September 14, 2026All topics
  1. Commentary4 receipts3 min

    The retirement that never breaks is the one to watch. The old name keeps answering — and something else is doing the answering.

    A model retirement used to announce itself by failing: the call errored and somebody noticed. This month's schedules show a quieter pattern. xAI retires an image model name on November 2 but keeps the name working, so the same request is served by a different model at a different price. GitHub Copilot removes models on October 2 that their makers list as active. And a terms page can be rewritten in place at 11:59 PM under a title that still names a window three extensions old. None of these break anything. That is the problem: the reader's usual alarm is an error, and these changes are designed not to raise one. The defence is to ask a different question — not 'does it still work?' but 'what is answering when I call this name?'

    Also filed undermethoddeprecationsaixaidated-terms

  2. News6 receipts4 min

    Three model retirements land between September 30 and October 2. The one most likely to catch you is not on the maker's page.

    Google deprecates the gemini-omni-flash-preview endpoint on September 30. OpenAI removes gpt-5.4-cyber from its API on October 1. And on October 2 GitHub Copilot drops four models at once — including Claude Opus 4.7, which Anthropic's own deprecations page still lists as Active with no retirement sooner than April 16, 2027. Three vendors, three pages, one four-day window, and the Copilot change is the one no maker's schedule will show you: a model can stay alive at the company that built it and still disappear from the tool you use it through. Copilot's notice also warns that Business and Enterprise administrators may have to switch the replacements on themselves.

    Also filed underaideprecationsretirementsopenaigoogleanthropicdated-terms

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