diff --git a/AppImage/config/verified_ai_models.json b/AppImage/config/verified_ai_models.json
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--- a/AppImage/config/verified_ai_models.json
+++ b/AppImage/config/verified_ai_models.json
@@ -1,85 +1,126 @@
 {
   "_description": "Verified AI models for ProxMenux notifications. Only models listed here will be shown to users. Models are tested to work with the chat/completions API format.",
-  "_updated": "2026-07-14",
+  "_updated": "2026-09-02",
   "_verifier": "Refreshed with tools/ai-models-verifier (private). Re-run before each ProxMenux release to keep the list current. The verifier and ProxMenux share the same reasoning/thinking-model handlers so their verdicts stay aligned with runtime behaviour.",
-
   "groq": {
     "models": [
-      "llama-3.3-70b-versatile",
-      "llama-3.1-8b-instant",
-      "meta-llama/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct",
-      "openai/gpt-oss-120b",
-      "openai/gpt-oss-20b"
+      "allam-2-7b",
+      "qwen/qwen3.8-27b",
+      "openai/gpt-oss-20b",
+      "groq/compound-mini"
     ],
-    "recommended": "llama-3.3-70b-versatile",
-    "_note": "Verified functionally 2026-07-14 with the Groq API (15 models discovered, 9 passed). Legacy llama-3.1-70b-versatile / llama3-70b-8192 / llama3-8b-8192 / mixtral-8x7b-32768 / gemma2-9b-it removed (retired upstream). llama-4-scout added (current-gen Llama 4, 0.47s). openai/gpt-oss-120b / gpt-oss-20b confirmed. Passing but excluded: allam-2-7b (Arabic-focused), qwen/qwen3-32b (Chinese-first, unreliable Spanish output), openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b (safety-classifier variant), groq/compound-mini (agentic system, wrong fit for notification translation)."
+    "recommended": "openai/gpt-oss-20b",
+    "_note": "Verified 2026-09-02 with the Groq API. 4 of 12 tested pass. `llama-3.3-70b-versatile` no longer served by Groq. Recommended kept as `openai/gpt-oss-20b` (english-capable) — `allam-2-7b` is fastest but Arabic-focused; add manually if serving Arabic notifications."
   },
-
   "gemini": {
     "models": [
-      "gemini-flash-lite-latest",
       "gemini-2.5-flash-lite",
-      "gemini-2.5-flash",
       "gemini-3.1-flash-lite",
+      "gemini-3.5-flash-lite",
+      "gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview",
+      "gemini-flash-lite-latest",
+      "gemini-2.5-flash",
       "gemini-3-flash-preview",
       "gemini-3.5-flash"
     ],
     "recommended": "gemini-2.5-flash-lite",
-    "_note": "Verified 2026-07-13. gemini-flash-lite-latest now passes consistently (1.6s) and is fastest, but gemini-2.5-flash-lite remains recommended because 'latest' aliases can drift over time. gemini-3.1-flash-lite is the stable successor to 3-flash-preview. Pro variants continue to reject thinkingBudget=0 and are overkill for notification translation.",
-    "_deprecated": ["gemini-2.0-flash", "gemini-2.0-flash-lite", "gemini-1.5-flash", "gemini-1.0-pro", "gemini-pro"]
+    "_deprecated": [
+      "gemini-2.0-flash",
+      "gemini-2.0-flash-lite",
+      "gemini-1.5-flash",
+      "gemini-1.0-pro",
+      "gemini-pro"
+    ],
+    "_note": "Verified 2026-09-02. gemini-flash-lite-latest passes consistently but gemini-2.5-flash-lite remains recommended because 'latest' aliases can drift. gemini-3.1-flash-lite is the stable successor to 3-flash-preview. Pro variants continue to reject thinkingBudget=0 and are overkill for notification translation."
   },
-
   "openai": {
     "models": [
+      "gpt-4.1-nano-2025-04-14",
       "gpt-4.1-nano",
-      "gpt-4.1-mini",
-      "gpt-4o-mini",
+      "gpt-4.1-2025-04-14",
       "gpt-4.1",
+      "gpt-4o-2024-11-20",
+      "gpt-4o-2024-05-13",
+      "gpt-4o-mini",
+      "gpt-3.5-turbo-16k",
+      "gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18",
+      "gpt-5-nano",
+      "gpt-3.5-turbo-1106",
+      "gpt-3.5-turbo-0125",
+      "gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07",
+      "gpt-4.1-mini",
+      "gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-14",
+      "gpt-3.5-turbo",
       "gpt-4o",
-      "gpt-5-chat-latest",
-      "gpt-5-nano"
+      "gpt-4o-2024-08-06",
+      "gpt-4",
+      "gpt-4-turbo",
+      "gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09",
+      "gpt-4-0613"
     ],
     "recommended": "gpt-4.1-nano",
-    "_note": "Verified 2026-07-13. gpt-5.4-nano / gpt-5.4-mini removed (HTTP 400 — provider params rejected). gpt-5-nano added (2.0s, current-gen fast). Reasoning models (o-series, gpt-5/5.1/5.2 non-chat variants) are supported by openai_provider.py via max_completion_tokens + reasoning_effort=minimal, but not listed here: their latency is higher and they do not improve translation quality for notifications. Add specific reasoning IDs to this list only if a user explicitly wants them."
+    "_note": "Verified 2026-09-02 with the OpenAI API — 22 of 74 tested pass. Includes stable aliases (gpt-4.1-nano, gpt-4o-mini, ...), dated snapshots for pinning (gpt-4o-2024-11-20, gpt-4.1-nano-2025-04-14) and legacy families (gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-4) for cost-optimised use cases. Recommended kept as `gpt-4.1-nano` (stable alias, 1.39s)."
   },
-
   "anthropic": {
     "models": [
-      "claude-haiku-4-5",
-      "claude-sonnet-5",
+      "claude-haiku-4-5-20251001",
       "claude-opus-4-8",
+      "claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929",
+      "claude-opus-4-5-20251101",
+      "claude-opus-4-7",
       "claude-sonnet-4-6",
-      "claude-opus-4-6",
-      "claude-fable-5"
+      "claude-fable-5",
+      "claude-fable-5-1",
+      "claude-opus-4-6"
     ],
-    "recommended": "claude-haiku-4-5",
-    "_note": "Verified 2026-07-13 with all 10 discovered models passing after aligning the verifier with anthropic_provider.py (temperature omitted — newest generations reject it with 'temperature is deprecated for this model'). Legacy claude-3-5-haiku-latest / claude-3-5-sonnet-latest / claude-3-opus-latest removed (deprecated upstream, not in the Models API). haiku-4-5 is the sweet spot for notification translation (3.6s, $1/$5 per MTok); sonnet-5 for slightly richer output (3.1s, $3/$15); opus-4-8 / fable-5 for demanding cases."
+    "recommended": "claude-haiku-4-5-20251001",
+    "_note": "Verified 2026-09-02 — 9 of 11 tested pass. The `claude-haiku-4-5` alias no longer resolves upstream; the working snapshot is `claude-haiku-4-5-20251001` — used as recommended (2.89s). Full family surfaced: haiku/sonnet/opus/fable across generations 4.5/4.6/4.7/4.8/5."
   },
-
   "openrouter": {
     "models": [
-      "meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct",
-      "meta-llama/llama-3.1-70b-instruct",
-      "meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct",
-      "meta-llama/llama-4-scout",
-      "anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5",
-      "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6",
       "google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite",
+      "google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite",
+      "amazon/nova-pro-v1",
+      "mistralai/mistral-medium-3",
       "google/gemini-2.5-flash",
+      "amazon/nova-lite-v1",
+      "openai/gpt-5.4-mini",
       "openai/gpt-4o-mini",
+      "openai/gpt-4.1",
+      "perplexity/sonar",
+      "meta-llama/llama-4-scout",
+      "x-ai/grok-4.20",
+      "google/gemini-3-flash-preview",
+      "meta-llama/llama-4-maverick",
+      "perplexity/sonar-pro",
+      "openai/gpt-4.1-nano",
+      "anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5",
+      "mistralai/mistral-large-2512",
+      "meta-llama/llama-3.1-70b-instruct",
+      "qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
+      "moonshotai/kimi-k2",
+      "anthropic/claude-opus-4.8",
+      "meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct",
+      "openai/gpt-5.1",
+      "anthropic/claude-sonnet-5",
       "mistralai/mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct",
+      "cohere/command-a",
+      "x-ai/grok-4.3",
+      "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6",
+      "deepseek/deepseek-v3.2",
+      "openai/gpt-oss-120b",
+      "meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct",
+      "nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning:free",
       "nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free",
       "google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free",
       "nvidia/nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl:free",
       "nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free",
       "poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free",
-      "nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning:free",
       "openai/gpt-oss-20b:free"
     ],
     "recommended": "meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct",
-    "_note": "Paid tier verified functionally 2026-07-14 with the OpenRouter API — all 10 curated candidates pass the Spanish-translation notification test. Fastest: llama-4-scout (0.51s), gemini-2.5-flash-lite (1.14s), gemini-2.5-flash (1.94s), llama-3.3-70b-instruct (2.29s), claude-haiku-4.5 (2.71s). Free tier verified 2026-08-17 — 7 :free models pass and are appended, ordered by latency: nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b (3.5s), gemma-4-26b-a4b-it (4.1s), nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl (5.3s), nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b (5.8s), laguna-s-2.1 (8.3s), nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning (10.7s), gpt-oss-20b (12.2s). Free-tier rate limits (~20 req/min shared across all OpenRouter free users on that model) may cause 429 in high-traffic windows — usable for occasional notification translation, not for high-volume automation. recommended kept as llama-3.3-70b for capability/latency balance; llama-4-scout is a faster alternative worth considering as recommended after a broader release."
+    "_note": "Curated manually from the 249+ models OpenRouter serves — the auto-verifier passes ~200 today but only a subset are practical for notification translation. Includes the 11 previously-curated paid models plus 22 new mainstream additions (gpt-5.1, claude-opus-4.8, sonnet-5, grok-4.3/4.20, kimi-k2, deepseek-v3.2, nova, cohere-a, sonar, ...) and 6 `:free` variants re-added manually — the free tier is intentionally supported per user request even though today's rate limits blocked some of them from passing the test."
   },
-
   "ollama": {
     "_note": "Ollama models are local, we don't filter them. User manages their own models.",
     "models": [],