Weekly digest \u2014 Apr 21 to Apr 28, 2026
AI Tools This Week: 42 updates across 7 products
New features \u00b7 24
- Databricks \u00b7
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.
- Databricks \u00b7
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.
- Databricks \u00b7
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.
- Databricks \u00b7
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.
- Notion AI \u00b7
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.
- Notion AI \u00b7
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.
- Mistral AI \u00b7
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.
- Waymo \u00b7
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.
- Waymo \u00b7
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.
- Notion AI \u00b7
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.
- Notion AI \u00b7
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.
- Notion AI \u00b7
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.
- Waymo \u00b7
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.
- Notion AI \u00b7
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.
- Notion AI \u00b7
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.
- Waymo \u00b7
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.
- Waymo \u00b7
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.
- Mistral AI \u00b7
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.
- Mistral AI \u00b7
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.
- Mistral AI \u00b7
Introducing Forge
Forge is a new Mistral system that enables enterprises to build AI models grounded in their proprietary knowledge at frontier quality.
- Mistral AI \u00b7
Introducing Mistral Small 4
Mistral released Mistral Small 4, a new small-scale language model in their model lineup.
- Mistral AI \u00b7
Leanstral: Open-Source foundation for trustworthy vibe-coding
Mistral released Leanstral, the first open-source code agent built for the Lean 4 formal verification language.
- Mistral AI \u00b7
Introducing Mistral Small 4
Mistral released Mistral Small 4, a new small-scale model in their model lineup.
- Figure AI \u00b7
Helix 02 Living Room Tidy
Figure AI demonstrated Helix 02 performing autonomous tidying tasks in a living room environment. The showcase highlights full-body dexterity and generalist manipulation capabilities in an unstructured home setting.
Improvements \u00b7 7
- Notion AI \u00b7
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.
- Notion AI \u00b7
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.
- Notion AI \u00b7
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.
- Notion AI \u00b7
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.
- Notion AI \u00b7
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.
- Notion AI \u00b7
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.
- Mistral AI \u00b7
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.
Other updates \u00b7 3
- Notion AI \u00b7
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.
- Waymo \u00b7
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.
- Mistral AI \u00b7
Mistral AI partners with NVIDIA to accelerate open frontier models
Mistral AI joined the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition as a founding member, contributing large-scale model development and multimodal capabilities.