What\u2019s new in AI tools
Automated weekly roundup of release notes and changelogs across every AI tool we track. Currently indexing 175 updates.
This week \u2014 2026-W18
AI Tools This Week: 42 updates across 7 products
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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 began welcoming public riders to its fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Nashville on a rolling invitation basis.
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Your Waymo ride, now arriving in Nashville
Waymo began welcoming public riders to its fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Nashville, with invitations rolling out gradually.
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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 for riders in the Nashville area.
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Your Waymo ride, now arriving in Nashville
Waymo began welcoming the first public riders to its fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Nashville on a rolling invitation basis.
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Your Waymo ride, now arriving in Nashville
Waymo has launched its autonomous ride service in Nashville, Tennessee. Users can now book rides through the Waymo app in the Nashville area.
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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.