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SUNSET — Two days until the image models shut down: imagen-4.0-generate-001, ultra, fast, and the Gemini 3 Image family stop on August 17BREAKING — This is not a drop-in swap. The generate_images() method disappears entirely, and image generation moves to generate_content(), the same call used for textHARD — On the cutoff date, calls fail with a hard error rather than a deprecation warning, so waiting it out is not an optionMIGRATE — The deprecations table points to gemini-3.1-flash-image as the recommended replacementROBOTICS — Gemini Robotics ER 2 is now publicly available, with stronger video understanding, task orchestration, multi-robot collaboration, and safetyLOGS — Developer logs for the Interactions API can now be viewed from the AI Studio dashboardSUNSET — Two days until the image models shut down: imagen-4.0-generate-001, ultra, fast, and the Gemini 3 Image family stop on August 17BREAKING — This is not a drop-in swap. The generate_images() method disappears entirely, and image generation moves to generate_content(), the same call used for textHARD — On the cutoff date, calls fail with a hard error rather than a deprecation warning, so waiting it out is not an optionMIGRATE — The deprecations table points to gemini-3.1-flash-image as the recommended replacementROBOTICS — Gemini Robotics ER 2 is now publicly available, with stronger video understanding, task orchestration, multi-robot collaboration, and safetyLOGS — Developer logs for the Interactions API can now be viewed from the AI Studio dashboard
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Gemini API/2026-07-01Advanced

Keeping Unattended Jobs From Failing Silently: A Preflight Gate for Gemini's Platform Changes

Unrestricted API keys are now rejected, the old CLI reached end of life, and the Interactions API is becoming the default entry point. These 2026 platform shifts stop working automation without raising an error. Here is a preflight gate, with runnable code, that catches the failure before the batch runs.