What\u2019s new in AI tools
Automated weekly roundup of release notes and changelogs across every AI tool we track. Currently indexing 36 updates.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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.
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ChatGPT app, Dynamic voice speed, A/B testing, and more
Retell AI launched a ChatGPT GPT app for building and deploying AI voice agents, introduced dynamic voice speed that adapts to caller pace, and added A/B testing to split call traffic across multiple agents. Additional platform upgrades include ElevenLabs v3 voice support, webhook event controls, and data retention settings.
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Introducing Forge
Forge is a new Mistral system that enables enterprises to build AI models grounded in their proprietary knowledge at frontier quality.
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Introducing Mistral Small 4
Mistral released Mistral Small 4, a new small-scale model in their model lineup.
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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.
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Introducing Mistral Small 4
Mistral released Mistral Small 4, a new small-scale language model in their model lineup.
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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.
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March Drop 2026
Glean introduced a remote MCP server to ground ChatGPT and Claude in company context, and expanded the action space in Assistant and Agents with third-party tools via MCP.