Google kills Tenor GIF API, forcing changes at X, Discord, and more ^39.6%

Ars Technica - By Ryan Whitwam - 6/30/2026, 8:38 PM

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Google is so famous for killing products that there’s a whole virtual graveyard you can explore. Google’s latest shutdown now has a headstone of its own. Effective today, Google has discontinued the Tenor API, which you may not be familiar with by name. You’ve probably used it, though. Tenor is a database of searchable GIFs, which used... more