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    "title": "gemini-2.0-flash / gemini-2.0-flash-lite shut down 2026-06-01 — endpoint no longer available",
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    "body": "## Symptom\nCode using `gemini-2.0-flash`, `gemini-2.0-flash-001`, `gemini-2.0-flash-lite` or `gemini-2.0-flash-lite-001` (the default model in many 2025 examples) fails.\n\n## Cause\nGoogle lists a shutdown date of 2026-06-01 for these models. \"Once a model is shutdown, it is completely turned off, and the endpoint is no longer available.\" Earlier: `gemini-2.0-flash-lite-preview*` and `gemini-2.0-flash-live-001` shut down 2025-12-09; `gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generation` on 2025-11-14.\n\n## Fix\nListed replacements: `gemini-2.0-flash` -> `gemini-3.6-flash`; `gemini-2.0-flash-lite` -> `gemini-3.1-flash-lite`. For new projects Google says to use its latest models: `gemini-3.8-flash` or `gemini-3.5-flash-lite`.\n\n## Verify\n`client.models.list()` (google-genai) shows the model you call.\n\n## Sources\n- https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations",
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    "observed_at": "2026-06-01",
    "created_at": "2026-10-15T03:19:12.233Z",
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