Coming soon in AI
AI launches, betas, price changes, shutdowns and events, each with a date and an official source. Only announced or credibly reported items, never rumors. Updated November 12, 2026.
Upcoming
Siri AI (beta) arrives on the new Apple TV 4K
Apple's new Apple TV 4K (4th generation) with Siri AI, a new version of Siri powered by Apple Intelligence, is available in stores from Friday, November 13, at $299 (U.S.). Apple says Siri AI is a beta, in English in eight countries at launch.
Source: Apple Newsroom
Microsoft Ignite 2026
Microsoft's yearly conference for IT, developers and business leaders, with an opening keynote by Satya Nadella on November 17 and a heavy focus on AI agents and agent security. In person in San Francisco or online.
Source: Microsoft Security Blog: Your guide to Microsoft Security at Ignite 2026 · Microsoft adds Guardian Agents and Dynamic Permissions to police workplace AI agents
Cloudflare Workers AI stops serving a batch of older models
Cloudflare says a list of Workers AI models, including several DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM and older Llama and Gemma models, stop returning responses on November 20, 2026, and requests will fail with HTTP 410.
Source: Cloudflare changelog: Planned model deprecations on Workers AI
Gemini 4 Argon introductory API pricing ends
Google's introductory price for Gemini 4 Argon ($2 per million input tokens, $10 per million output tokens) runs through November 30, 2026. After that, Google lists $4 and $20.
Source: Gemini API docs · Google makes Gemini 4 Argon broadly available · Gemini
AWS re:Invent 2026
Amazon Web Services' yearly cloud and AI conference in Las Vegas, where AWS says new services launch during the week. Over 1,200 sessions on AI, security, migration and developer productivity are already listed.
Source: AWS re:Invent 2026
Fast mode for Claude Opus 4.8 is removed
Anthropic's Claude Code v2.1.316 release notes say fast mode for Opus 4.8 was deprecated on October 30, 2026 and will be removed on November 30, 2026; after that, fast-mode requests on Opus 4.8 return an error instead of falling back, and the notes point users to Opus 5.5.
Source: Claude Code v2.1.316 release notes · Claude Code · Claude Code v2.1.316
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is retired from the Claude API
Anthropic's model deprecations page lists November 30, 2026 as the retirement date for claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 on the Claude API, with claude-sonnet-5-5 as the recommended replacement.
Source: Anthropic model deprecations
OpenAI shuts down Agent Builder, the Evals platform and reusable prompts
OpenAI's deprecations page schedules Agent Builder, the Evals dashboard and API, and the v1/prompts API with reusable prompt objects to shut down on November 30, 2026. OpenAI points Agent Builder users to the Agents SDK or ChatGPT Workspace Agents, and ChatKit stays available.
Source: OpenAI API deprecations
Gemini 4 Carbon's introductory API price ends
Google says Gemini 4 Carbon's introductory price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens ends on November 30, 2026, after which $4 and $20 apply to the public Carbon model.
Source: Google: Gemini 4 Carbon is now available · Gemini 4 Carbon opens to paying developers, enterprises and Google AI Ultra subscribers
Older GPT Image models are removed from the OpenAI API
OpenAI's deprecations page lists December 1, 2026 as the removal date for gpt-image-1-mini, gpt-image-1.5 and chatgpt-image-latest, with gpt-image-2.5-sunburst or gpt-image-2.5-flare as the recommended replacements.
Source: OpenAI API deprecations
Google routes Gemini 2.5 Pro and 2.5 Flash API calls to newer models
Google's Gemini API release notes say that from December 1, 2026, requests to gemini-2.5-pro automatically route to gemini-3.8-flash and requests to gemini-2.5-flash route to gemini-3.5-flash-lite, billed at the new models' rates; Google lists breaking API changes and asks developers to update model strings before then.
SWE-2 Flash's free period in Devin ends
Devin's model docs say SWE-2 Flash is free for self-serve plans in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI until December 4, 2026 at 18:00 UTC; afterward all three variants cost $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens.
Source: Devin docs: Chat models and pricing · Cognition launches SWE-2 Flash, a faster, cheaper coding model for Devin
OpenAI removes older GPT-5 and o3 model snapshots from its API
OpenAI's deprecations page lists December 11, 2026 as the shutdown date for gpt-5, gpt-5-mini, gpt-5-nano, gpt-5-pro, o3 and o3-pro, with GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna as the recommended replacements.
Source: OpenAI API deprecations
Standalone Claude Design (claude.ai/design) closes
Claude Code's release notes added a notice that standalone Claude Design at claude.ai/design closes by December 14, 2026.
Source: Claude Code release notes · Claude Code · Claude Code v2.1.302
Recently happened
Anthropic The Briefing: Work at the Frontier livestream
Anthropic livestream from San Francisco on November 10, 2026, 9:30–11:00 am PST, led by CPO Ami Vora with demos for sales, legal, finance and other knowledge work. No sign-up; watch on the event page. Anthropic: The Briefing livestream
Kimi K3.1 Pro full open weights release
Moonshot AI says the full model weights for Kimi K3.1 Pro, its 2.8T-parameter mixture-of-experts model with a 1-million-token context window, will be released by November 4, 2026. The model is already available in Kimi's apps and API. Kimi K3.1 Pro tech blog
DeepSeek starts billing Search & Fetch calls made through agent harnesses
DeepSeek's Search and Fetch API calls made through server-side tools in DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code and Codex are free for DeepSeek API users until billing starts October 31, 2026 at 16:00 UTC; each endpoint costs $0.75 per 1,000 calls. DeepSeek API news: V4.1-Flash-1017 release
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB release
NVIDIA says Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, a small open model for fast local voice assistants, interactive characters and embedded interfaces on GeForce RTX, Jetson and RTX/DGX Spark, arrives October 23. NVIDIA blog: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Bolt models
NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026
NVIDIA's AI conference in Europe: workshops on October 20, Jensen Huang's keynote on October 21 (free livestream, no registration needed to watch online), and the conference and exhibits October 21-22. In-person passes are sold out (waitlist). NVIDIA GTC Berlin FAQ
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