⏳ Coming Soon to the Graveyard

The preview snapshot of the Computer-Using Agent model behind Operator, OpenAI's browser-controlling agent, shuts down July 23 as part of the summer deprecation wave.

New organizations can no longer create fine-tuning jobs. Existing jobs will stop on July 23, with a second wave October 23.

OpenAI's ChatGPT-powered web browser, launched October 2025, stops working August 9 — less than a year old. The agentic browsing features are being redistributed into ChatGPT's desktop app and a Chrome extension instead.

Persistent AI agents with memory, tools, and file handling. Replaced by the Responses API. Developers face a full rewrite.

While the Sora app died in April, the API endpoint survives until September. Then it's gone completely.

Google's entire Gemini 2.5 family on Vertex AI will be retired no earlier than October 16, 2026.

Older GPT Image model snapshots were flagged for removal from the API on December 1, 2026, just months after they replaced DALL·E. The endpoint that buried DALL·E is already on its own deprecation clock.