What\u2019s new in AI tools
Automated weekly roundup of release notes and changelogs across every AI tool we track. Currently indexing 59 updates.
This week \u2014 2026-W18
AI Tools This Week: 42 updates across 7 products
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ChatGPT app, Dynamic voice speed, A/B testing, and more
Retell AI launched a ChatGPT app for building voice agents, dynamic voice speed matching caller pace, and A/B testing for splitting call traffic across multiple agents.
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Python SDK v0.31.1, TypeScript SDK v0.32.0
Updated SDKs with improved chat completion message type definitions for better OpenAI compatibility and added support for new Groq Compound tools including Wolfram Alpha and Browser Automation.
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Groq Compound and Compound Mini
Compound and Compound Mini are Groq's production-ready agentic AI systems that integrate web search, code execution, and browser automation into a single API call. Moving from beta to general availability, these systems deliver ~25% higher accuracy and ~50% fewer mistakes across benchmarks.
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Moonshot AI Kimi K2 Instruct 0905
Kimi K2-0905 brings Moonshot AI's cutting-edge model to GroqCloud with day zero support, featuring a 256K context window and enhanced agentic coding capabilities. The model offers prompt caching with up to 50% cost savings and runs at 200+ t/s at $1.50/M tokens blended pricing.
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Remote Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server integration is now available in Beta on GroqCloud, connecting AI models to thousands of external tools through Anthropic's open MCP standard. Developers can connect any remote MCP server to models hosted on GroqCloud with zero code changes from OpenAI.
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Ramping Figure 03 Production
Figure AI is scaling up production of their Figure 03 humanoid robot model.
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Remote agents in Vibe. Powered by Mistral Medium 3.5.
Mistral AI introduced Mistral Medium 3.5 with remote coding agents in Vibe and a new Work mode in Le Chat for complex tasks.
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Langfuse v3.172.0
Adds a 'none' filter mode for tags in the traces sidebar. Includes multiple fixes for experiment metadata ingestion, ClickHouse query performance, dashboard filter consistency, and trace detail UI.
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Workflows for work that runs the business
Workflows feature is now available in public preview for business automation.
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Langfuse v3.171.0
Allows source=ANNOTATION on the public scores API endpoint and adds model pricing for GPT-5.5. Includes ClickHouse performance improvements and PostHog export window fixes.
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Innovative L.A. Law Firm J&Y Law Saves 320 Hours of Work Each Week Due to Strategic AI Tech Adoption
A case study describing how J&Y Law, a Los Angeles personal injury firm, reports saving 320 hours of work per week through adoption of EvenUp's AI tools. The post is a customer success story rather than a product release.
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Rollups now as currency, percent, and more
: Rollup fields can now be configured to display values as currency, percentages, or other formats. This expands the formatting options available for rollup fields in the UI.
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The next generation of Databricks Genie
Databricks announced the next generation of its Genie product with new capabilities for data interaction. The update was published as a platform and product release.
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OpenAI GPT-5.5 + Codex, now available and fully-governed on Databricks
OpenAI GPT-5.5 and Codex are now available on Databricks with governance through Unity AI Gateway. The integration targets agentic enterprise workflows and complex tasks.
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Find pages faster from the breadcrumb
Hovering over any breadcrumb item now reveals sibling pages, including pages inside databases. This improves navigation between related pages within a workspace.
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Langfuse v3.170.0
Adds public evals API endpoints, DELETE endpoint for LLM connections, region selector in user menu, prompt metrics time window filtering, floating multi-select action bar, and configurable blob storage export frequencies. Includes security fixes for CSS injection in score config names and constant-time comparison for admin API key auth.
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Announcing the Public Preview of Lakeflow Designer
Lakeflow Designer has entered public preview after its initial introduction at Data and AI Summit. The tool is aimed at data pipeline design within the Databricks platform.
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Databricks partners with OpenAI on GPT-5.5
Databricks announced a partnership with OpenAI to offer GPT-5.5 as a frontier model on its platform. The post outlines the collaboration and availability details.
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5 Reasons Claude Isn't Right for Your Personal Injury Law Firm
A blog post arguing that general-purpose AI models like Claude are not suited for personal injury law firms compared to specialized legal AI tools. The post is editorial content rather than a product release.
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Mail & Calendar, now in your settings
A new dedicated settings tab allows users to connect their calendar and inbox to Notion. Once linked, Notion AI can perform cross-app tasks such as scheduling meetings and drafting emails.
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Opus 4.7, now in Notion
Claude Opus 4.7 by Anthropic is now available in Notion, offering reduced token usage and a 3x reduction in tool errors compared to prior versions. It is intended to handle complex workflows more reliably.
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Florida's New Way to Ride: Waymo Opens to Everyone in Miami and Orlando
Waymo opened its fully autonomous ride-hailing service to all residents and visitors in Miami and Orlando after initially serving over 150,000 riders from an interest list.
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Florida's New Way to Ride: Waymo Opens to Everyone in Miami and Orlando
Waymo has opened its autonomous ride service to all users in Miami and Orlando, Florida. The service is now publicly available in these two cities without waitlists.
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Connect the dots: Build with built-in and custom MCPs in Studio
New connectors feature allows enterprises to connect data to AI applications with reusable connectors, tool calling, and approval controls.
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Florida's New Way to Ride: Waymo Opens to Everyone in Miami and Orlando
Waymo has opened its fully autonomous ride-hailing service to all residents and visitors in Miami and Orlando, removing the prior interest-list requirement. Users can now download the Waymo app and hail a ride immediately in both cities.
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Florida's New Way to Ride: Waymo Opens to Everyone in Miami and Orlando
Waymo expanded its fully autonomous ride-hailing service to all riders in Miami and Orlando, Florida. The service is now open to the general public in both cities.
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Connect the dots: Build with built-in and custom MCPs in Studio
Mistral Studio now supports reusable connectors for enterprise data, direct tool calling, and human-in-the-loop approval controls for AI applications.
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Schedule meetings with Notion Agent
Notion Agent can now access a user's calendar to identify available meeting times with teammates. Users can view a ranked list of scheduling options, compare schedules, and book directly from the chat interface.
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New database permission: Can create pages
A new database permission level allows teammates to create new pages without being able to view or edit other content in the database. This is intended for use cases involving external contributors or sensitive data.
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Page render performance boost
Initial page render speed has improved by 28%, reducing the time before content is visible. No user action is required to benefit from this change.
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New AI connectors: Salesforce and Box
A Salesforce connector enables searching accounts, opportunities, and notes within Notion AI for call prep and follow-ups. A Box connector allows searching and summarizing files such as proposals and contracts.
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AI Meeting Notes custom summary instructions
Users can now add custom instructions to AI Meeting Notes to control the format of generated summaries. Summary quality has also improved through automatic inclusion of relevant workspace context.
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Notion 3.4 part 2: Custom Agents, AI Autofill, and more
This release expands Custom Agents with lower running costs (35–50% cheaper), private Slack channel access, and a credits dashboard for visibility. New AI Autofill brings agent-powered continuous enrichment to database rows, and Notion Agent gains Skills, voice input, and Calendar/Mail/Slack integrations.
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Customize your tabs in databases
Database tab display can now be set to show text and icon, text only, or icon only. This setting is per-user and does not affect how other workspace members see the tabs.
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Partnering with Waze to help cities patch their potholes
Waymo partnered with Waze to use its perception systems to detect potholes and provide real-time data to cities and transportation departments through the Waze for Cities platform.
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Partnering with Waze to help cities patch their potholes
Waymo has partnered with Waze to share pothole data collected by its autonomous vehicles to help cities identify and repair road infrastructure issues. The collaboration uses Waymo's sensor data to improve road conditions.
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Partnering with Waze to help cities patch their potholes
Waymo and Waze announced a pilot program using Waymo's perception systems to detect potholes and share that data with cities and state DOTs via the Waze for Cities platform. The program aims to provide up-to-date road condition information in cities where Waymo operates.
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Partnering with Waze to help cities patch their potholes
Waymo announced a partnership with Waze to share pothole data collected by its autonomous vehicles with city infrastructure teams. The collaboration aims to help municipalities identify and repair road hazards more efficiently.
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New page cover art from timeless collections
Four new page cover art collections have been added, sourced from institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Museum of Asian Art. Collections include Hudson River School paintings, Chinese silk paintings, natural textures, and USDA watercolor fruits.
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Mute discussion replies
Users can now mute reply notifications on discussions they no longer want to follow. Notifications automatically resume if the user is @-mentioned or posts a new comment, and can be manually unmuted via the options menu.
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Your Waymo ride, now arriving in Nashville
Waymo launched its fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Nashville, beginning to invite public riders on a rolling basis.
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Your Waymo ride, now arriving in Nashville
Waymo has launched its autonomous ride service in Nashville, Tennessee. The service is now available to users in the Nashville metropolitan area.
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Your Waymo ride, now arriving in Nashville
Waymo launched its fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Nashville, beginning with a rolling invite to public riders. Users can download the Waymo app to join the service.
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Your Waymo ride, now arriving in Nashville
Waymo launched its autonomous ride-hailing service in Nashville, Tennessee. The service is now available to riders in the city via the Waymo app.
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Share Notion AI chats as a link
Notion AI chat conversations can now be shared as read-only links with teammates or publicly. Shared links are manageable from Settings under Public pages.
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Two users, one CLI: people and agents
Mistral AI redesigned their CLI tools to better serve both human users and AI agents.
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Two users, one CLI: people and agents
Mistral redesigned their internal CLI to support both human users and agents as first-class citizens, improving developer tooling for agentic workflows.
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Speaking of Voxtral
Voxtral TTS is a new open-weights text-to-speech model designed for fast, adaptable, and lifelike speech generation for voice agents.
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Speaking of Voxtral: Voxtral TTS
Mistral released Voxtral TTS, an open-weights text-to-speech model designed for voice agents with fast inference and adaptable voice output.
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Voxtral TTS: Speaking of Voxtral
Mistral released Voxtral TTS, an open-weights text-to-speech model designed for low latency, voice adaptation, and use in voice agent applications.