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Anthropic made computer use generally available on 19 August 2026 and shipped a browser use toolset alongside it. The migration changes the request shape, flips zoom on by default, stops downscaling oversized
Anthropic made the Files API generally available on 19 August 2026. Requests that still send the files-api-2025-04-14 beta header keep the previous response format, a fork documented in exactly one place and in neither
Perplexity's 13 August 2026 post gives Sonar 45 days, ending 27 September 2026. The migration guide names no date, the changelog names none, and the docs' benchmarks show 5.46x where the blog claims 7x.
Google confirms 18 August 2026 as the Content API for Shopping shutdown on four separate properties, then publishes nothing about what happens to traffic afterwards. Here is the verified breaking-change map for Merchant
Microsoft starts disabling Exchange Web Services on 1 October 2026 and finishes on 1 April 2027. The decision point is earlier: the end of August 2026 allow list deadline.
Microsoft retires the Bing Webmaster Tools SOAP and POX/HTTP APIs on 31 August 2026. Your API key, quotas and method names survive. The URL path and the response envelope do not. Here is the cutover.
OpenAI removes the Assistants API on 26 August 2026. Threads become Conversations, Runs become Responses, and the tool-call loop becomes your code. Here is the mapping, the hidden cost changes, and a three-week plan.
All three Imagen 4 models shut down on 17 August 2026. generate_images() is gone, the response shape changes, and number_of_images no longer exists. Google's docs name two different replacement models, and one of them
Google's own migration guide links an extended-access form, and Shopify sellers need do nothing. But if you hand-build the migration, the Price change from value to amountMicros will reprice your whole catalogue
OpenAI's deprecations page lists six Sora 2 entries with a 24 September 2026 shutdown and an empty replacement column. Veo 3.1 Lite runs $0.05 per second, Runway Gen-4.5 $0.12, Sora 2 Pro at 1080p was $0.70. Here is
The Azure OpenAI Assistants API stops working on August 26, 2026. Here is the migration to Microsoft Foundry Agent Service: the SDK change, threads to conversations, runs to responses, and which tools carry over.
OpenAI's 22 April 2026 deprecation email listed 18 model snapshots shutting down on 23 July 2026. The public deprecations page lists 15 of them. Here is the full map, what each one migrates to, the four shutdown dates
OpenAI's Assistants API sunsets on 26 August 2026, 36 days from now. The replacement objects do not map one to one, prompts are dashboard-only, and OpenAI will not ship a thread migration tool.
