diff --git a/apps/orchestrator/requirements.txt b/apps/orchestrator/requirements.txt
index 247871a5..97af3d03 100644
--- a/apps/orchestrator/requirements.txt
+++ b/apps/orchestrator/requirements.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc==1.40.0
 opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http==1.40.0
 playwright==1.58.0
 # Primary LLM provider (Gemini-first).
-google-genai==1.68.0
+google-genai==1.70.0
 # Optional provider accelerator (enabled via CORTEXPILOT_PROVIDER_USE_LITELLM=1).
 # Keep this path optional at runtime; do not block baseline bootstrap/clean-room
 # recovery on a provider accelerator that is activated only behind an env flag.
diff --git a/apps/orchestrator/setup.cfg b/apps/orchestrator/setup.cfg
index a70c8b6b..10afbc06 100644
--- a/apps/orchestrator/setup.cfg
+++ b/apps/orchestrator/setup.cfg
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ install_requires =
     opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc==1.40.0
     opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http==1.40.0
     playwright==1.58.0
-    google-genai==1.68.0
+    google-genai==1.70.0
     openai-agents==0.7.0
     temporalio==1.22.0
     duckduckgo-search==8.1.1