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12 stories tagged deprecation on AI Tamer, newest first.
GitHub Notifications in Teams becomes the GitHub app, with Copilot cloud agent built in. The legacy app retires 16 November; admins need RSC consent.
Eight changes from our past week for people building with AI: model shutdowns, new defaults, two security fixes and new tools, each with a next step.
On Friday OpenAI's API retires a batch of older models announced in April, including gpt-image-1 and the o-series minis. Check your model strings today.
Six older models left Copilot on 19 October. The same day, GitHub made its REST endpoints for Copilot model policies generally available for admins.
Editing Copilot Studio agents inside Teams ends in January 2027 and the app leaves Teams in February. Agent management moves to the Copilot Studio web app.
MiniMax launched M3.1 Flash at $0.15/$0.60 per million tokens with a 1M context. M Plan requests to M2.5 and M2.7 now route to it; both retire 18 November.
On 29 October 2026 Haiku 4.5 leaves the selector for Free, Pro and Max, including desktop and mobile. Claude Code, Team, Enterprise and the API are unchanged.
Thinking Machines' 15 October note marks a year of Tinker. Compatible sampling is already in beta. Three models retire on 23 October 2026.
Google's Gemini API changelog says gemini-3.7-flash now routes to gemini-3.8-flash, and gemini-3.5-flash to gemini-3.6-flash, with no shutdown date. One Deep Research agent ends 23 October.
OpenAI's deprecations page, dated 1 October 2026, removes tts-1, tts-1-hd, and two gpt-4o-mini-tts snapshots on 6 January 2027. The named replacement does not support the speech REST endpoint.
Nano Banana 2.1 is GA in the Gemini API and gemini-3.1-flash-image is deprecated. Google now lists no shutdown date for it (corrected 21 October).
Hosted AI models get switched off, and the providers publish when. How the deprecation pages work at Anthropic and OpenAI, and a routine for never being surprised.
