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Google makes Nano Banana 2.1 generally availableNano Banana 2.1 improves visual quality, prompt adherence, multi-turn character consistency and text rendering. It also adds wide and panoramic aspect ratios across 1K, 2K and 4K output sizes, while the previous image endpoint is deprecated.→OpenAI Node SDK 7.20.0 adds vault credentials and safety lifecycle APIsOpenAI Node SDK 7.20.0 adds APIs for environment-backed credentials and external storage configuration. It also exposes safety-case retrieval, safety warning and deactivation webhook events, and SIP media-security data for incoming calls.→OpenAI Go SDK 3.64.0 adds agent safety and session-environment controlsOpenAI Go SDK 3.64.0 extends the client surface for safety cases, safety warnings, deactivation events and session-environment resets. It also adds external storage configuration and preserves Azure gateway paths and endpoint overrides.→OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.5 with sharper editing and faster generationChatGPT Images 2.5 improves reference fidelity, multi-turn editing and layout accuracy, while OpenAI reports latency reductions of up to 50% compared with Images 2.0. The release also adds Sketch, templates and image comments, alongside API models named GPT-Image-2.5 Flare and Sunburst.→Google releases Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash for controllable AI videoGoogle released Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash as a production-ready multimodal video model and API update with scene extension, first-and-last-frame interpolation, 360p drafts and upscaling to 4K. Google says scene extensions can use up to 10 seconds of prior context and accumulate to 40 seconds through Gemini API, AI Studio, Enterprise Agent Platform and Flow.→DeepSeek adds vision to V4 Flash in an experimental API modelDeepSeek's official API documentation says the experimental model matches V4 Flash on text capabilities, including agents, reasoning and world knowledge, while adding mixed text-and-image input. The company reports multimodal agent performance close to Anthropic's Opus 4.8 and makes the model available through Chat Completions, Messages and Responses.→Claude Opus 5 and Sonnet 5 suffered a separate developer-facing degradationAnthropic opened a separate incident at 13:56:41 UTC for elevated errors on Claude Opus 5, later reporting that Sonnet 5 was degraded as well. Claude.ai, the API, Claude Code and Claude Cowork were marked operational again at 15:29:25 UTC.→