What\u2019s new in AI tools
Automated weekly roundup of release notes and changelogs across every AI tool we track. Currently indexing 369 updates.
This week \u2014 2026-W18
AI Tools This Week: 42 updates across 7 products
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Servus München: Waymo is Coming to Germany
Waymo announced plans to launch fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Munich, Germany, marking international expansion.
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Introducing Index: Building The World's Largest and Most Diverse Physical Dataset
Figure AI launched Index, a comprehensive physical dataset initiative aimed at creating the world's largest collection of diverse physical interaction data for humanoid robot training.
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Servus München: Waymo is Coming to Germany
Waymo announces plans to launch its fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Munich, Germany. This marks the company's first expansion into the European market.
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Introducing Index: Building The World's Largest and Most Diverse Physical Dataset
Figure AI launched Index, a comprehensive physical dataset initiative aimed at creating the world's largest collection of diverse physical interaction data.
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Servus München: Waymo is Coming to Germany
Waymo announced it is laying the groundwork for its fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Munich, Germany. This marks the company's expansion into the European market.
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Servus München: Waymo is Coming to Germany
Waymo announced its expansion into Germany, specifically Munich, marking its first entry into the European market.
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GitHub Copilot app Customize tab is generally available
The Customize tab in the GitHub Copilot app has reached general availability for all users.
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March Drop 2026
Launches remote MCP server to ground ChatGPT and Claude in company context, expanding Assistant and Agents with third-party MCP tools.
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April Drop 2026
Enables slide and interactive HTML page generation, plus embedded MCP Apps in Glean Assistant for cross-tool actions.
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May Drop 2026
Introduces real-time voice capabilities, company-aware Skills, and enhanced action-taking across existing team tools.
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June Drop 2026
Adds meeting notes functionality to turn meetings into searchable context and interactive content for team collaboration.
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July Drop 2026
Introduces voice content creation, enterprise-ready workflow scaling, and Snowflake/Databricks data querying with business context.
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ChatGPT app, Dynamic voice speed, A/B testing, and more
Released ChatGPT integration for building voice agents directly within ChatGPT interface, enabling users to create production-ready AI voice agents with prompts, deploy to phone numbers, and monitor performance.
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Agent Versioning 2.0, Granular Multilingual, Custom Voicemail, Voice Orb, and more
Introduced comprehensive agent versioning with staging/production environments, granular multilingual support with automatic language detection, and custom voicemail handling. Added Voice Orb for easy agent sharing via links.
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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, native CRM integration with Salesforce and HubSpot, and new voice models for more natural conversation. Also added emotion control and auto-detection features.
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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 per agent.
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Retell Workflows, Brex top 25, and more
Launched Retell Workflows for native orchestration of voice agent operations with integration library, tool store, and preset functions. Improved transfer handling, transcription, and added GPT-5.6 and GPT Realtime 2.1 models.
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Groq Among the First to Bring NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX and Vera Rubin NVL72 to Market
Groq announces partnership to bring NVIDIA's latest Groq 3 LPX and Vera Rubin NVL72 hardware to market. This represents an expansion of Groq's hardware offerings through their NVIDIA partnership.
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Retell Workflows, Brex top 25, and more
Launched Retell Workflows for native orchestration of voice agent operations with integration library, tool store, and preset functions. Improved transfer handling, transcription usability, and added GPT-5.6 and GPT Realtime 2.1 models.
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Groq Among the First to Bring NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX and Vera Rubin NVL72 to Market
Groq announces partnership to bring NVIDIA's latest Groq 3 LPX and Vera Rubin NVL72 hardware to market. This represents an expansion of Groq's hardware offerings through strategic NVIDIA collaboration.
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Introducing Robostral Navigate
Mistral released Robostral Navigate, their first model built specifically for embodied navigation tasks.
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Introducing Shieldstral
Mistral introduced Shieldstral, a new AI safety and moderation 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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Shared agentic work with GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Teams
GitHub Copilot now supports shared agentic workflows within Microsoft Teams for collaborative development.
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The new GitHub Copilot experience in Slack
GitHub Copilot introduces a new integrated experience within Slack for enhanced collaboration.
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Shared agentic work with GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Teams
GitHub Copilot now supports shared agentic workflows within Microsoft Teams for team collaboration.
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The new GitHub Copilot experience in Slack
GitHub Copilot is now available with enhanced integration in Slack for collaborative development workflows.
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A look under our trunk: what's in our compute
Waymo reveals details about their custom compute hardware and silicon designed for real-time autonomous driving. The system is co-designed with sensors and algorithms for deterministic, low-latency performance.
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Busting SQL Migration Myths: How New SQL Features Make Lift-and-Shift to Lakehouse Easier
Databricks introduced new SQL features designed to simplify migration from traditional data warehouses to the lakehouse architecture.
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Inbound Private Link now supports account-level Genie One, the account console, and custom URLs
Databricks expanded Inbound Private Link support to include account-level Genie One, the account console, and custom URLs for enhanced enterprise security.
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Your Developer Portal, now in the sidebar
New Developer section in workspace sidebar for managing Workers, connections, and tokens. Includes developer bar for easy API ID copying.
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Your Developer Portal, now in the sidebar
New Developer section in workspace sidebar for managing Workers, connections, and tokens, plus a developer bar for copying API IDs.
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Your Developer Portal, now in the sidebar
New Developer section in workspace sidebar for managing Workers, connections, and tokens, plus developer bar for copying API IDs.
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Your Developer Portal, now in the sidebar
Added a new Developer section to the sidebar for managing Workers, connections, and personal access tokens. Includes a developer bar for easily copying API IDs and objects.
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Databricks Document Intelligence: pushing the frontier for complex document extraction
Databricks launched Document Intelligence, a new capability for extracting structured data from complex unstructured documents.
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Enterprise managed settings in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains
Enterprise administrators can now manage GitHub Copilot settings centrally for JetBrains IDEs.
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March Drop 2026
Integrated ChatGPT and Claude with company context via new remote MCP server and expanded Assistant/Agents with third-party MCP tools.
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April Drop 2026
Added slide and interactive HTML page generation, 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-taking across existing team tools.
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June Drop 2026
Introduced meeting notes functionality that turns meetings into searchable context with interactive content for team collaboration.
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July Drop 2026
Added voice content creation capabilities, enterprise-ready workflow scaling, and Snowflake/Databricks data querying with business context.
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Introducing Robostral Navigate
Mistral releases Robostral Navigate, their first model designed for embodied navigation in robotics applications.
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Introducing Shieldstral
Mistral AI introduces Shieldstral, a new AI safety and moderation solution.
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Using AI_Functions in Your Data Warehouse: Top Use Cases
Databricks highlighted AI_Functions capabilities for processing unstructured data directly within data warehouse environments.
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Grok 4.6 is now available in GitHub Copilot
The Grok 4.6 language model is now integrated and available for use within GitHub Copilot.
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Grok 4.6 is now available in GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot now supports Grok 4.6 as an available AI model option.
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Smart Routing in Unity AI Gateway: Match frontier quality with 30%+ lower cost per task
Databricks introduced smart routing in Unity AI Gateway to optimize model selection for coding tasks, achieving frontier-level quality while reducing costs by over 30%.
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Gemini 3.7 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot adds support for Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash model.
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Groq Becomes an NVIDIA Cloud Partner
Groq establishes a cloud partnership with NVIDIA to enhance their AI inference capabilities. This partnership expands Groq's ecosystem integration with NVIDIA's cloud services.
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Groq Becomes an NVIDIA Cloud Partner
Groq enters into a cloud partnership with NVIDIA to enhance AI inference capabilities. This partnership expands Groq's ecosystem integration with NVIDIA's cloud infrastructure.