Aetherion AI Newshttps://www.aetherionlabs.co.uk/news/AI news and practical analysis from Aetherion Labs.en-gbGemini Computer Use reaches GA — execution controls still define production safetyhttps://www.aetherionlabs.co.uk/news/gemini-computer-use-ga-execution-controls/https://www.aetherionlabs.co.uk/news/gemini-computer-use-ga-execution-controls/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 07:54:06 GMTGoogle has moved Gemini Computer Use to GA across two APIs, but action execution, confirmation gates and prompt-injection defenses remain responsibilities of the application.Agents & toolsMistral Large 4 changed behind the same model ID — treat aliases as releaseshttps://www.aetherionlabs.co.uk/news/mutable-model-aliases-mistral-large-4-ai-gateway/https://www.aetherionlabs.co.uk/news/mutable-model-aliases-mistral-large-4-ai-gateway/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 07:10:00 GMTAI Gateway now serves updated Mistral Large 4 weights and lower prices through the existing model ID, showing why production AI needs regression checks beyond application deploys.Models & APIsGemini API request logging is now on by default for new paid projectshttps://www.aetherionlabs.co.uk/news/gemini-api-request-logging-default-new-projects/https://www.aetherionlabs.co.uk/news/gemini-api-request-logging-default-new-projects/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 07:40:00 GMTGoogle now stores Generate Content requests and responses by default in new paid Gemini API projects, making retention and explicit opt-out part of deployment configuration.Models & APIsManaged Stripe keys turn agent permissions into deployable infrastructurehttps://www.aetherionlabs.co.uk/news/vercel-connect-managed-stripe-keys-agent-least-privilege/https://www.aetherionlabs.co.uk/news/vercel-connect-managed-stripe-keys-agent-least-privilege/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 08:03:00 GMTVercel Connect can now create and rotate restricted Stripe keys per agent or task, moving least-privilege payment access out of copied secrets and into the deployment layer.InfrastructureOpenAI’s Decisions API reaches GA with caching and JSON inputshttps://www.aetherionlabs.co.uk/news/openai-decisions-api-ga-cached-json-routing/https://www.aetherionlabs.co.uk/news/openai-decisions-api-ga-cached-json-routing/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:43:00 GMTThe production release turns repeated classification and routing into a more practical control layer, with shared-input caching and up to 400 questions per request.Models & APIsVercel Daemons bring long-running workers closer to the apphttps://www.aetherionlabs.co.uk/news/vercel-daemons-background-workers-need-durable-jobs/https://www.aetherionlabs.co.uk/news/vercel-daemons-background-workers-need-durable-jobs/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:59:01 GMTVercel’s public beta adds containerised pull-based workers alongside an application, but restarting compute does not make the work itself durable.InfrastructureGemini 4 Argon turns long output into an orchestration problemhttps://www.aetherionlabs.co.uk/news/gemini-4-argon-long-output-orchestration/https://www.aetherionlabs.co.uk/news/gemini-4-argon-long-output-orchestration/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:16:00 GMTGoogle’s new GA model can continue a response far beyond 64K tokens, but its pricing and API semantics make explicit budgets and asynchronous job handling essential.Models & APIsDecision models turn routing into a first-class APIhttps://www.aetherionlabs.co.uk/news/decision-models-routing-first-class-api/https://www.aetherionlabs.co.uk/news/decision-models-routing-first-class-api/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:31:00 GMTNew decision endpoints separate classification, scoring and routing from open-ended generation.Models & APIsGoogle puts persistent agents at the centre of workhttps://www.aetherionlabs.co.uk/news/google-gemini-agent-persistent-work/https://www.aetherionlabs.co.uk/news/google-gemini-agent-persistent-work/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTThe Gemini agent announcement brings long-running work, business context and model choice into one experience.Agents & toolsVercel makes sandbox readiness explicithttps://www.aetherionlabs.co.uk/news/vercel-sandbox-ready-on-creation/https://www.aetherionlabs.co.uk/news/vercel-sandbox-ready-on-creation/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:55:00 GMTA small lifecycle change matters for the reliability of AI coding and execution workflows.InfrastructureHaiku 5.5 sharpens the case for task-based model routinghttps://www.aetherionlabs.co.uk/news/claude-haiku-5-5-task-routing/https://www.aetherionlabs.co.uk/news/claude-haiku-5-5-task-routing/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:50:00 GMTAnthropic’s new small model puts the economics of routine agent work back in focus.Models & APIs