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EXTENSIONS — Vertex AI Extensions is deprecated and shuts down after November 26, 2026. Agent Platform is the migration targetPLATFORM — Vertex AI is now part of the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, and features have moved under new names — worth knowing when old doc searches come up emptySUNSET — Four shutdown dates land in August: Imagen models on the 17th, the Grok 4.1 family on the 20th, Claude 3 Haiku on the 23rd, and gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview on the 31stIMAGE — Imagen 4.0 GA endpoints shut down August 17, with gemini-3.1-flash-image as the successor. Measure how the same prompts render before you switchFLASH — Gemini 3.6 Flash reached GA on July 21 at $1.50/1M input, with output pricing down from $9.00/1M to $7.50/1MREGION — Gemini Enterprise is generally available in Japan (asia-northeast1) and the UK (europe-west2), on an allowlist basisEXTENSIONS — Vertex AI Extensions is deprecated and shuts down after November 26, 2026. Agent Platform is the migration targetPLATFORM — Vertex AI is now part of the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, and features have moved under new names — worth knowing when old doc searches come up emptySUNSET — Four shutdown dates land in August: Imagen models on the 17th, the Grok 4.1 family on the 20th, Claude 3 Haiku on the 23rd, and gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview on the 31stIMAGE — Imagen 4.0 GA endpoints shut down August 17, with gemini-3.1-flash-image as the successor. Measure how the same prompts render before you switchFLASH — Gemini 3.6 Flash reached GA on July 21 at $1.50/1M input, with output pricing down from $9.00/1M to $7.50/1MREGION — Gemini Enterprise is generally available in Japan (asia-northeast1) and the UK (europe-west2), on an allowlist basis
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Gemini Advanced/2026-08-06Advanced

The Day the Knowledge Cutoff Moved Forward, the Stale Part Was My System Instruction

When a model's knowledge cutoff advances, the thing that goes stale is not the model — it is the dated assertions in your system instruction. Here is why only the lines written between the two cutoffs flip from helpful to contradictory, plus a working audit script and its measured results.