●SUNSET — Four days until the image models shut down: Imagen 4 and the Gemini 3 Image family stop on August 17, so line up your replacements now●FLASH — Gemini 3.6 Flash is generally available, with better token efficiency and stronger code and agentic planning at a lower price than 3.5 Flash●LITE — Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite also reached GA as a low-latency, cost-conscious subagent option aimed at high-volume automation●OMNI — Gemini Omni Flash, a new video model, is now reachable from the Gemini app, Flow, AI Studio, and the Gemini API●LOGS — Developer logs now cover the Interactions API, with supported calls visible in the AI Studio dashboard●ROBOTICS — gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview shuts down on August 31, so this is the window to plan the migration●SUNSET — Four days until the image models shut down: Imagen 4 and the Gemini 3 Image family stop on August 17, so line up your replacements now●FLASH — Gemini 3.6 Flash is generally available, with better token efficiency and stronger code and agentic planning at a lower price than 3.5 Flash●LITE — Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite also reached GA as a low-latency, cost-conscious subagent option aimed at high-volume automation●OMNI — Gemini Omni Flash, a new video model, is now reachable from the Gemini app, Flow, AI Studio, and the Gemini API●LOGS — Developer logs now cover the Interactions API, with supported calls visible in the AI Studio dashboard●ROBOTICS — gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview shuts down on August 31, so this is the window to plan the migration

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◈ Gemini API/2026-06-27Advanced

Stopping Runaway Costs Twice: Project Spend Caps Plus an App-Side Soft Limit

Pairing Gemini API Project Spend Caps (a monthly USD ceiling) with an app-side soft circuit breaker that trips before the hard cap. Includes a working Python and sqlite daily cost ledger.

◈ Gemini API/2026-06-26Advanced

When your Gemini API spend cap trips, paying users go down too — isolating the blast radius with per-tier projects

A Project Spend Cap stops the entire project at once. To keep a runaway free tier from taking paying users down with it, this is a design note on isolating the cap's blast radius across per-tier projects and closing the ~10-minute delay with an application-side soft budget gate.