What\u2019s new in AI tools
Automated weekly roundup of release notes and changelogs across every AI tool we track. Currently indexing 485 updates.
This week \u2014 2026-W18
AI Tools This Week: 42 updates across 7 products
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Copilot code review: An improved review experience
GitHub Copilot code review received improvements to enhance the overall review experience for developers.
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April Drop 2026
Launched slide and interactive HTML page generation, plus embedded MCP Apps in Glean Assistant for cross-tool actions.
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May Drop 2026
Added real-time voice capabilities, company-aware Skills, and enhanced action-taking across existing team tools.
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Notion 3.7: Agent skills for your whole team
Introduces Skills - reusable AI instructions that teams can create, share, and run across different AI agents. Includes skills library, automatic execution, and integration with external tools like Claude, Codex, and Cursor.
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Your Prompts and Skills need a system of record
Studio now provides AI prompts and skills with a system of record that is versioned, owned, and traceable.
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Introducing Shieldstral
Mistral introduced Shieldstral, a new AI safety and security solution.
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Agentic Search. More accurate and efficient results from your AI systems
Mistral launched Agentic Search, a retrieval layer that helps AI systems navigate, read, and verify information inside and across complex documents.
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Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier
Mistral announced it has raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion.
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Vegas, Deal Us In! We're welcoming riders today
Waymo launched public autonomous ride-hailing service in Las Vegas, expanding to provide fully autonomous trips for residents and visitors.
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Unify your marketing data with Lakeflow Connect
Databricks introduces Lakeflow Connect to help organizations unify their marketing data across different sources and platforms.
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Improving Lakebase Postgres compute cache
Databricks announces performance improvements to the compute cache system in Lakebase Postgres for better query performance.
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Unifying governance across engines and catalogs in the Open Lakehouse
Databricks enhances governance capabilities across different compute engines and data catalogs within the Open Lakehouse architecture.
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Control which AI models your agents can use
Workspace owners can now control which AI models are available in Notion Agent and Custom Agents, with separate controls and default model settings for compliance and cost management.
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Adaptive Instructed-Retriever: Frontier-Quality Search at 2x Lower Latency
Databricks releases Adaptive Instructed-Retriever, delivering improved search quality with 50% reduced latency for enterprise data agents.
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Beyond embedding: How to secure AI/BI Dashboards for every viewer
Databricks provides enhanced security features for embedding AI/BI Dashboards in customer-facing applications with viewer-specific access controls.
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Control which AI models your agents can use
Workspace owners can now choose which AI models are available in Notion Agent and Custom Agents separately, with default model settings. Available on Business and Enterprise plans.
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March Drop 2026
Released remote MCP server to ground ChatGPT and Claude in company context, and expanded Assistant/Agents with third-party MCP tools.
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April Drop 2026
Added slide and HTML page generation features, plus embedded MCP Apps in Glean Assistant for cross-tool actions.
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May Drop 2026
Launched real-time voice capabilities, company-aware Skills, and enhanced action integration across existing team tools.
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Introducing Robostral Navigate
Mistral releases Robostral Navigate, their first model specifically designed for embodied navigation tasks. The model enables AI systems to navigate physical environments.
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Your Prompts and Skills need a system of record
Studio now provides a system of record for AI prompts and skills with versioning, ownership, and traceability features. This gives developers better control over their AI application components.
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Introducing Shieldstral
Mistral launches Shieldstral, a new AI safety and security solution. The product appears to focus on content moderation and safety controls for AI systems.
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Agentic Search
Mistral introduces a retrieval layer that helps AI systems navigate, read, and verify information across complex documents. The system provides more accurate and efficient results for AI applications.
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In-region inference, open models, and new European infrastructure for sovereign AI
Mistral is launching inference infrastructure, open models, and long-term commitments for European AI sovereignty. The initiative includes new compute infrastructure and a roadmap for global AI control.
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GPT-6 Astra is generally available in GitHub Copilot
The GPT-6 Astra model is now generally available for use within GitHub Copilot.
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GPT-6 Astra is generally available in GitHub Copilot
GPT-6 Astra model is now generally available for use in GitHub Copilot.
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Gemini 3.8 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash model has been added as an available option in GitHub Copilot.
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Figure and Nscale Sign Strategic Partnership For Up to 100,000 GPUs on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin Platform
Figure AI announced a strategic partnership with Nscale to access up to 100,000 GPUs on NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform for scaling their AI training capabilities.
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A Three-week Task Now Takes 20 Minutes: Kansas City Firm Cuts Demand Prep 99% and Case Time in Half Using AI
Nash Franciskato law firm reduced demand preparation time from three weeks to 20 minutes using EvenUp's AI platform. The firm reports they can now handle 100 additional cases per year with the same team size.
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Figure and Nscale Sign Strategic Partnership For Up to 100,000 GPUs on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin Platform
Figure AI announced a strategic partnership with Nscale to access up to 100,000 GPUs on NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform for enhanced computing capabilities.
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Gemini 3.8 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash model is now available as an option in GitHub Copilot.
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Announcing the Databricks Big Book of AgentOps
Databricks released a comprehensive guide on AgentOps, the operating discipline for building, deploying and managing AI agents. The resource provides best practices for agent operations.
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Expanding Genie Agents: Deep analysis, file reasoning, and more
Databricks announced the evolution of Genie Spaces to Genie Agents with enhanced capabilities for deep analysis and file reasoning. This represents a significant expansion of their AI agent functionality.
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Content exclusions generally available in Copilot app and CLI
Content exclusion features are now generally available in the Copilot app and command-line interface.
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Claude Fable 5.1 is generally available in GitHub Copilot
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 model is now generally available for use in GitHub Copilot.
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Copilot code review can now approve pull requests
GitHub Copilot code review gained the ability to automatically approve pull requests based on its analysis.
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LexisNexis and EvenUp Announce Strategic Alliance, Bringing Trusted Legal AI to Personal Injury Professionals
EvenUp announced a strategic partnership with LexisNexis to integrate trusted legal AI insights and citation-backed research capabilities for personal injury professionals.
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LexisNexis and EvenUp Announce Strategic Alliance, Bringing Trusted Legal AI to Personal Injury Professionals
EvenUp announced a strategic partnership with LexisNexis to integrate their AI-powered claims analysis with LexisNexis Protégé's legal research platform. The alliance allows mutual customers to access citation-backed legal insights and AI tools for personal injury cases.
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Welcoming our first riders in Denver, San Diego, and Tampa
Waymo began offering public autonomous rides in three new cities, bringing the total to 14 cities with fully autonomous ride-hailing service.
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LexisNexis and EvenUp Announce Strategic Alliance, Bringing Trusted Legal AI to Personal Injury Professionals
EvenUp announced a strategic partnership with LexisNexis to integrate their AI-powered claims analysis with LexisNexis Protégé's legal research platform. The integration allows mutual customers to access citation-backed legal insights and agentic AI capabilities.
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Welcoming our first riders in Denver, San Diego, and Tampa
Waymo begins offering fully autonomous ride-hailing service to public riders in three new cities. This expansion brings Waymo's service to 14 total cities.
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How we eliminated $1 million a year of wasted AI agent spend in one hour
Databricks shared how their engineering team identified and eliminated significant waste in AI agent spending through optimization techniques. The case study demonstrates cost management strategies for AI workloads.
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Claude Fable 5.1 is generally available in GitHub Copilot
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 model is now generally available in GitHub Copilot.
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Copilot code review can now approve pull requests
GitHub Copilot's code review feature can now automatically approve pull requests.
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ChatGPT app, Dynamic voice speed, A/B testing, and more
Released ChatGPT integration allowing users to build production-ready voice agents directly through ChatGPT, plus dynamic voice speed adjustments and A/B testing capabilities.
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Agent Versioning 2.0, Granular Multilingual, Custom Voicemail, Voice Orb, and more
Introduced Agent Versioning 2.0 with environment tags and draft management, granular multilingual support with automatic language detection, and custom voicemail handling capabilities.
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Live Call Monitoring, Custom Dashboards, Built-in CRM, Colloquial Model, Expressive Mode, and more
Major platform update including real-time call monitoring, custom dashboards for different teams, built-in CRM integration with Salesforce and HubSpot, and new voice models for more natural conversations.
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Conductor, higher free-tier token limits, and more
Retell launched Conductor, an AI copilot for building and maintaining voice agents that simulates changes before deployment and learns from real calls. Free LLM token allowance was increased to 4,000 tokens.
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GroqCloud: Expanding to Meet Demand
Groq announces expansion of GroqCloud platform capabilities to meet growing customer demand. The expansion includes infrastructure improvements and capacity increases.
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Groq Raises $650M to Scale Its AI Inference Cloud Business
Groq secured $650 million in funding to scale their AI inference cloud business operations. The capital will support infrastructure expansion and business growth.