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Google made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, its video generation model, generally available in the Gemini API on 5 November 2026 at $0.07 per second of 720p video, which Google says is 30% below the price of Gemini Omni 1.1. Clips can run up to 15 seconds, up from 10. The announcement gives no retirement date for Omni 1.1.

Confirmed by provider. Google's announcement of 5 November 2026, read 6 November 2026. Checked on 6 November 2026.

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Since 3 November 2026, text generated by Claude Mythos 5, Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 carries Anthropic's text watermark on the platforms Anthropic lists; on Sonnet 4.6 a request that sets temperature, top_p or top_k to a non-default value might not carry it. The Decoder reported on 4 November that a notice to API customers extends the watermark to Claude Opus 4.6, Opus 4.5, Sonnet 4.5 and Haiku 4.5 from 16 November 2026, a few days later on Amazon Bedrock, with the same caveat, and that customers cannot turn it off.

Confirmed by provider. Claude Platform release notes, entry dated November 3, 2026, read 7 November 2026; the 16 November expansion is from The Decoder's report of 4 November 2026 of Anthropic's notice to API customers, as Anthropic's content-labeling help page would not open from here. Checked on 7 November 2026.

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The Grok product page no longer mentions memory across chats; it lists reasoning, coding, image generation and document analysis. xAI's consumer FAQ, the Grok help FAQ and the user guide do not mention memory either, so the Scorecard's docs grade for Grok on remembering across a new chat moved from yes to no.

Found on the Scorecard re-check. xAI's Grok page, read 3 November 2026; on 22 October 2026 it listed memory across chats. xAI has not announced a change. Checked on 3 November 2026.

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The pricing page lists a new Ultra plan at $200 a month and Max at $100 a month only; on 23 October 2026 it listed Max in two tiers, the higher one priced only on a help page. The usage-limits page says verified Ultra accounts have no five-hour session limit. Neither page dates the change.

Confirmed by provider. Anthropic's pricing page and its usage-limits help page, read 3 November 2026. Checked on 3 November 2026.

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xAI retired the grok-imagine-image-quality API model on 2 November 2026, after a 60-day notice that began on 2 September. Requests to it, and to grok-imagine-image-pro (redirected to it in May), are now served by grok-imagine-image-2.0 at the low quality setting, which costs $0.01 per image less at every resolution: $0.04 per 1K image and $0.06 per 2K image, plus $0.01 per input image on edits. The old names keep resolving, so no code change is needed; grok-imagine-image (1.0) is not affected.

Confirmed by provider. xAI's migration guide for the retirement and its API release notes entry for 2 November 2026, read 4 November 2026. Checked on 4 November 2026.

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From December 2026, ChatGPT and Codex draw from one shared usage allowance on Plus, Pro and Business plans, measured in tokens; Instant chat does not count against it. People who hit the limit wait for the reset, upgrade, or buy credits. No token figures are published.

Confirmed by provider. OpenAI Help Center, Understanding ChatGPT and Codex usage limits; the page returned a client error from here on 3 November 2026, so its wording was checked across three reports of 2 November 2026. Checked on 3 November 2026.

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Weekly usage limits on Grok Bot on X were cut. Over the weekend of 31 October and 1 November 2026 users reported allowances showing as fully used without overnight use, some going from 50% to 100%, and on 1 November Elon Musk replied that it was not a glitch: "The cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue." No new limit figures or affected plans have been published.

Confirmed by the owner. Elon Musk's reply on X of 1 November 2026, quoted in TechCrunch's report of 2 November 2026; the X post could not be opened from here. Checked on 4 November 2026.

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Server-side tool calls on the DeepSeek API, Search and Fetch, are billed at $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests from 00:00 Beijing time on 1 November 2026; they were free before. The deepseek-flash name now points to DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, and requests to the older deepseek-v4-flash names are served by it at the Flash price.

Confirmed by provider. DeepSeek's API pricing page, read 3 November 2026. Checked on 3 November 2026.

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The Kimi K2 series of models (K2.6 and K2.7 Code among them) is closed to newly registered API users from 31 October 2026, and Moonshot plans to retire every K2 model by the end of December 2026; Kimi K3 and K3.1 Pro take their place on the pricing page. Existing users keep access until retirement.

Confirmed by provider. Kimi Open Platform, K3 series pricing page, read 3 November 2026. Checked on 3 November 2026.

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Anthropic deprecated fast mode for Claude Opus 4.8 on 30 October 2026, with removal on 30 November 2026. After that, API requests to claude-opus-4-8 that set speed to fast return an error; Anthropic points people who want fast mode to Claude Opus 5.5.

Confirmed by provider. Claude Platform release notes, entry dated October 30, 2026, read 6 November 2026. Checked on 6 November 2026.

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Existing $200 ChatGPT Pro subscribers move to the lower usage allowance that new Pro 200 subscriptions get, at the same $200 price, after keeping the old allowance through October 29. A new Pro 500 plan has the highest included usage; see OpenAI's pricing page.

Confirmed by provider. OpenAI Help Center, About ChatGPT Pro tiers, on the allowance kept through October 29, 2026. Checked on 24 October 2026.

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As of October 20, the r/ClaudeAI thread "Has Opus 5.5 entered its nerf phase?", posted about a week after launch, reached about 2,380 votes. It is a community claim with no data behind it yet.

Community only. Reddit thread counted in a secondary write-up; no provider statement or tracker data supports it.

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ChatGPT removed the fixed cap on how many Sites Plus and Pro users can create. Usage and storage limits still apply.

Confirmed by provider. OpenAI's ChatGPT release notes, entry dated October 15, 2026. Checked on 24 October 2026.

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Google emailed Google AI Plus subscribers ($4.99 a month) that from November 13, 2026, Pro models in the Gemini app and in AI Mode in Search will only be available on Google AI Pro ($19.99 a month) and above. Plus keeps the Flash and Flash-Lite models; earlier Pro chats can be continued with a different model.

Reported by Droid-Life, which reproduced the Google One team's email; Android Central reported the same email the same day.

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OpenAI retired GPT-5.5 from Codex for users signed in with ChatGPT, at noon Pacific on October 14. The API and Codex sessions signed in with an API key were not affected.

Confirmed by provider. OpenAI's ChatGPT & Codex changelog entry for October 14, 2026. Checked on 24 October 2026.

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LiveNerf, a pre-registered drift benchmark of Opus 5.5 as served through Claude Code on a subscription, published its first result: no degradation found (0.584 to 0.592, plus or minus 1.8). Its smallest detectable effect is about 7.5 points.

Tracker signal. Independent benchmark result, not a provider statement.

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Google Cloud stopped selling new Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise subscriptions and points buyers to Antigravity via Gemini Enterprise. Renewals are allowed until January 31, 2027 (annual) or December 31, 2027 (monthly).

Confirmed by provider. Google set the end of sales and the renewal deadlines.

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Anthropic deprecated Claude Sonnet 4.5 (claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929), with retirement set for November 30, 2026, and named Sonnet 5.5 as the replacement. The same page notes that the temperature, top_p and top_k API parameters return an error in API version 2026-10-21.

Confirmed by provider. Anthropic's model deprecations page.

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OpenAI launched Pro 500 at $500 a month with the highest included usage, and opened Pro 200 to new subscribers again at $200 with a lower included usage allowance. $200 subscribers active between September 22 and 29 keep their old allowance through October 29.

Confirmed by provider. ChatGPT release notes, entries dated September 29, 2026, and OpenAI Help Center, About ChatGPT Pro tiers. Checked on 24 October 2026.

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Claude Opus 5.5 shipped with medium effort by default; Opus 5 defaulted to high. LiveNerf measured medium versus high as a gap of about 4.2 points.

Documented default change. Effort gap measured by the LiveNerf tracker.

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Google limited the Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash and Flash-Lite API models to users who had used them before, while still listing them as available with an October 16, 2026 shutdown date. Developers on new projects started getting "This model is no longer available to new users" errors on July 28; a Google staff reply on the developer forum confirmed the restriction on July 30, and the changelog documented it on September 18. New projects were pointed to 3.5 Flash-Lite or 3.8 Flash.

Confirmed by provider. Gemini API changelog entry of September 18, 2026, after forum reports from July 28 and a Google staff reply on July 30.

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Claude Code weekly limits were "permanently" raised by 25% for Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise, replacing a +50% promotion that ran until September 13. Against the promotional level, that is a 17% cut (150 to 125).

Confirmed by provider. Anthropic said: "Compared to today, this works out to a 17% reduction in weekly limits on Claude Code."

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After users reported GPT-6 Astra as faster but lower quality, OpenAI published a postmortem naming three defects: legacy skills overtriggering, a context-management experiment reaching about 4,000 to 5,000 users, and misconfigured engines serving tail traffic. A usage reset came with it.

Confirmed by provider. OpenAI postmortem.

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On September 10, DeepSeek's pricing page said that from September 14 requests to deepseek-v4-pro would be routed to V4.1-Flash and billed at the Flash price, as part of retiring V4 Pro. A day later the same page reversed the plan: V4 Pro API service continues after September 14 with billing unchanged, citing user demand. V4 Pro output stayed at $1.98 per million tokens off-peak and $3.96 peak.

Tracker signal. UsagePricing captured the DeepSeek pricing page footnotes on September 10 and 11, 2026; the live page no longer shows the notice.

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Microsoft retired Deep Research in the consumer Copilot app for free users and for subscribers on any plan other than Microsoft 365 Premium; Premium subscribers were pointed to Researcher, and Personal and Family subscribers kept read access to earlier reports. The Podcasts feature was retired in the consumer app the same day.

Confirmed by provider. Microsoft's support page says Deep Research is being retired in the Copilot app for consumers starting August 18, 2026; Thurrott reported both retirements on July 21.

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Mistral renamed its Le Chat app to Vibe, one app for chat, work and coding. Accounts, plans and conversations carried over, and the chat.mistral.ai address stayed the same.

Confirmed by provider. Mistral Help Center article Le Chat is now Vibe, dated August 12, 2026. Checked on 24 October 2026.

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OpenAI announced that its Atlas browser would stop working on August 9, 2026, and that Atlas bookmarks, open tabs and history would not transfer automatically. The same day it stopped new group chats, conversions and invite-link joins on web, iOS and Android, leaving existing group chats usable for now. Pulse had been sunset on June 17 (Pro users kept it 14 days), and the official DALL-E GPT was scheduled for retirement on August 30.

Confirmed by provider. OpenAI's ChatGPT release notes, entries dated June 17, July 9 and July 31, 2026.

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ChatGPT memories began updating automatically instead of only when saved, starting with Plus and Pro users in the US, and Plus and Pro got twice the memory capacity. Users can switch back to the older system under Settings > Memory > Saved memories. The same day OpenAI began showing ads to Free and Go users in the UK, after Australia, New Zealand and Canada on April 16; Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Education stayed ad-free.

Confirmed by provider. OpenAI's ChatGPT release notes, entries dated June 4, 2026.

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Perplexity Pro subscribers reported that weekly limits on advanced models such as Gemini 3.1 Pro ran out much faster, with some hitting the cap after three to five requests a day and being prompted to upgrade to Perplexity Max. Perplexity told Android Authority that some accounts saw different limits because they came from promotional-code offers, and that it had tightened enforcement against fraud and resale of those codes. It did not publish new limit figures.

Reported by Android Authority, which collected user reports and obtained a statement from a Perplexity spokesperson.

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xAI retired eight API models at noon Pacific: grok-4-1-fast-reasoning, grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning, grok-4-fast-reasoning, grok-4-fast-non-reasoning, grok-4-0709, grok-code-fast-1, grok-3 and grok-imagine-image-pro. Requests to the old names were redirected to grok-4.3 (or grok-build-0.1 and grok-imagine-image-quality) and billed at grok-4.3 prices of $1.25 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens, which xAI warned could raise costs for anyone who did not switch explicitly.

Confirmed by provider. xAI's "May 15 retirement" migration guide on docs.x.ai.

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ChatGPT introduced storage caps per plan: 500 MB on Free, 4 GB on Go, 20 GB on Plus and Business, 100 GB on Pro.

Confirmed by provider. OpenAI's ChatGPT release notes, entry dated May 14, 2026.

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Anthropic announced the deprecation of Claude Sonnet 4 (claude-sonnet-4-20250514) and Claude Opus 4 (claude-opus-4-20250514). Both were retired on June 15, 2026, with Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 4.8 named as replacements. Claude Opus 4.1 followed: announced June 5, retired August 5, 2026.

Confirmed by provider. Anthropic's model deprecations page lists the announcement and retirement dates.

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OpenAI introduced a $100 a month Pro tier below the $200 Pro plan. It also rebalanced Plus Codex usage toward more sessions spread across the week instead of long single-day sessions as a temporary Plus promotion ended, and set the $100 Pro plan at up to 10x Plus Codex usage; the $200 plan's allowance was stated separately, so the new tier sits between Plus and the $200 plan. GPT-5.3 Instant Mini replaced GPT-5 Instant Mini as the fallback model after rate limits.

Confirmed by provider. OpenAI's ChatGPT release notes, entry dated April 9, 2026.

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The Gemini app added tools to import memories and chat history from other AI apps, by pasting memories or uploading a ZIP of past chats. Google also renamed its past chats feature to memory.

Confirmed by provider. Gemini Apps release notes, entry dated March 26, 2026; limits on the Gemini Apps Help page Import from other AI platforms. Checked on 24 October 2026.

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Claude's memory from chat history opened to all users, including the free plan. Anthropic's help pages say memory is on by default for Free, Pro and Max.

Confirmed by provider. Claude Help Center release notes, entry dated March 2, 2026; the default-on wording is in Anthropic's own release note dated August 25, 2026, on the same page. Checked on 24 October 2026.

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