Releasesby GlyphNovember 2026
Perplexity added an ultra effort level option to its Agent API, designed for broad research and data-gathering tasks using Claude Opus 5.5, with support for background execution mode.
Also shipped Nov 5, 2026Perplexity in November 2026 →
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is now generally available, offering omni-modal processing for text, image, and video. New features include standalone video upscaling, extended generation durations, and reference-guided video editing.
Use GPT-6-Cyber to investigate vulnerabilities, reproduce them in an authorized test environment, and verify
OpenAI has released GPT-6-Cyber, a model designed to investigate vulnerabilities, reproduce them in authorized environments, and verify fixes.
Gemini Enterprise: Prepaid credits for Pay-as-you-go subscriptions and usage above quota
Prepaid credits are now generally available for self-serve Cloud Billing accounts, allowing users to pay for Gemini Enterprise usage without an invoiced billing account.
The BigQuery Metadata curation console page has been removed
The BigQuery Metadata curation console page has been deprecated. Users should now use Knowledge Catalog for data discovery, profiling, and governance tasks.
Conversational analytics in BigQuery is now available in the asia-northeast1 (Tokyo) location
Conversational analytics in BigQuery is now supported in the asia-northeast1 (Tokyo) region.
Announcing Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Web Answer is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. It provides a managed tool that returns synthesized, cited answers grounded in web sources in a single call.
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November 2026
Decisions API: URL fetching and page freshness Pass a page URL as state with mode: "web_grounding" to fetch its text before searching. The fetched text replaces the URL before search. The response returns the page in fetched_results and search evidence in search_results . Set max_staleness to the maximum page age in seconds since its last crawl.
November 2026
Analytics API: credit-usage response update For dataset=credit_usage , responses from /v1/analytics/computer/usage and /v2/analytics/computer/usage currently omit the Credit Source breakdown. Total credit usage and the Model breakdown remain available. If your integration expects a fixed set of breakdowns, update it to read the returned categories list.
October 2026
Perplexity updated effort levels in the Agent API, increasing maximum token limits, expanding search step maximums, and updating backend models.
October 2026
The Agent API has renamed the preset parameter to effort. This is a naming change only, and existing configurations remain functional.
October 2026
Tool approvals for MCP and connector calls Set require_approval on an mcp or connector tool to review calls before they run. A call that needs approval returns an mcp_approval_request item and does not run. To approve or deny it, send an mcp_approval_response with previous_response_id .
October 2026
Older models removed from the model docs; GPT-6 Astra and DeepSeek V4 Pro added The following models are no longer listed in the Agent API model docs, pricing calculator, or examples: Anthropic: anthropic/claude-opus-4-8 , anthropic/claude-opus-4-7 , anthropic/claude-opus-4-6 , anthropic/claude-opus-4-5 , anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6 ...
October 2026
Decisions API: pplx-decider-v1.2 and pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 pplx-decider-v1.2 replaces pplx-decider-v1.1-27b as the 27B decision model, at $0.02 per million input tokens. pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 is a new 4B decision model at $0.01 per million input tokens. Both accept text and images and use the same request limits. Output tokens stay free.
October 2026
Gemini 4 Argon The Agent API now supports google/gemini-4-argon . Introductory pricing through November 30, 2026 is $2.00 per million input tokens, $0.10 per million cached input tokens, and $10.00 per million output tokens, including reasoning tokens. See the Agent API Models reference .