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JAX ADDS ONEAPI GPU RUNTIME AS PYTHON 3.14 FORCES GOOGLE-AUTH DEPENDENCY PURGE

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JAX shipped OneAPI (SYCL) GPU support while google-auth spent the night locking down five critical dependencies for Python 3.14 compatibility.

JAX merged OneAPI GPU runtime functions [1], bringing SYCL support to jaxlib with new type aliases and kernel helpers in the oneapi directory. On the compute side, Pallas added a synchronous MMA primitive [2] and cleaned house by removing unused linalg_vectorization code [3]. Meanwhile, google-auth faced a Python 3.14 reckoning: the stdlib dropped pkg_resources, forcing cryptography to jump to 41.0.5+ [8], while urllib3, packaging, aiohttp, and rsa all needed hard version bounds to survive [5] [6] [7] [9]. These aren't minor compatibility tweaks - they're the cost of staying on the standard library's upgrade treadmill. The python-genai SDK cleaned up OpenAPI schema property sorting and added retrieval result steps [4], mostly chore work ahead of larger feature rolls.

Action items

References

  1. [1] [OneAPI GPU] Add OneAPI (SYCL) GPU Runtime Functions. ↗ google/jax
  2. [2] [pallas:mgpu] Added a primitive for synchronous MMA ↗ google/jax
  3. [3] Remove unused linalg_vectorization from mosaic. google/jax ↗
  4. [4] feat: add retrieval result step and new fields to maps and search results ↗ googleapis/python-genai
  5. [5] fix(google-auth): add aiohttp bound for Python 3.14 ↗ googleapis/google-cloud-python
  6. [6] chore(google-auth): fix aiohttp 3.10+ test compatibility ↗ googleapis/google-cloud-python
  7. [7] fix(google-auth): raise rsa extra lower bound to 4.0 (#17652) ↗ googleapis/google-cloud-python
  8. [8] fix(google-auth): add cryptography bound for Python 3.14 (#17649) ↗ googleapis/google-cloud-python
  9. [9] fix(google-auth): add bounds for urllib3 and packaging dependencies (#17647) ↗ googleapis/google-cloud-python

Quick answers

What shipped in Google on July 8, 2026?
JAX shipped OneAPI (SYCL) GPU support while google-auth spent the night locking down five critical dependencies for Python 3.14 compatibility. In total, 27 commits and 28 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Google on July 8, 2026?
3 developers shipped this update, including kranipa, copybara-service[bot], and ohmayr.
What were the notable Google updates?
[OneAPI GPU] Add OneAPI (SYCL) GPU Runtime Functions, [pallas:mgpu] Added a primitive for synchronous MMA, and Remove unused linalg_vectorization from mosaic.