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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Helix-02 Bedroom Tidy
The Helix-02 system demonstrates autonomous bedroom cleaning and organization capabilities.
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Helix-02 Bedroom Tidy
Figure AI demonstrated Helix-02's ability to perform bedroom cleaning and organization tasks autonomously.
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Helix-02 Bedroom Tidy
Figure AI's Helix-02 robot demonstrates autonomous bedroom cleaning and organization capabilities.
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MCP Marketplace brings real-time intelligence to agentic applications
Databricks launched MCP Marketplace to provide real-time intelligence capabilities for agentic AI applications. The marketplace enables AI systems to access business context and reasoning capabilities.
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How Superhuman and Databricks built a 200K QPS inference platform together
Superhuman partnered with Databricks to build a high-performance inference platform capable of handling 200,000 queries per second. The collaboration demonstrates real-time AI inference capabilities at scale.
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Plan Mode
Introduced Plan Mode for Custom Agents, which adds a preliminary step where agents ask clarifying questions and build detailed plans before executing complex multi-step tasks. This reduces errors and increases confidence in agent outputs.
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Plan Mode
Introduced Plan Mode where agents ask clarifying questions and build detailed plans before executing complex multi-step tasks. This feature reduces surprises and increases confidence when agents make significant changes to pages or databases.
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New Custom Agent Directory
Added a dedicated Custom Agent Directory in the Library where users can browse all workspace agents, pin favorites, and create new ones. The directory provides centralized access to automate team workflows.
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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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New Custom Agent controls for admins
Added comprehensive admin controls for Custom Agents including permission management, per-agent credit limits, workspace-level spending controls, and usage tracking dashboards. Includes automatic guardrails to prevent unexpected spending.
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New Custom Agent controls for admins
Released admin controls for Custom Agents including permission management, per-agent credit limits, workspace-level spending controls, and usage tracking dashboards. Includes automatic guardrails to prevent unexpected spending.
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Remote agents in Vibe. Powered by Mistral Medium 3.5.
Mistral AI introduces Mistral Medium 3.5 model, remote coding agents in Vibe, and a new Work mode in Le Chat for handling complex tasks.
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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
Mistral AI launches Workflows in public preview, enabling automated business processes.
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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 150,000 riders from an interest list.
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Connect the dots: Build with built-in and custom MCPs in Studio
Mistral AI introduces enterprise data connectors in Studio with reusable connectors, direct tool calling, and human-in-the-loop approval controls.
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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 residents and visitors in Miami and Orlando after serving over 150,000 riders from initial interest lists.
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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 available to the general public in these two cities.
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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 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.
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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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Partnering with Waze to help cities patch their potholes
Waymo has partnered with Waze to share pothole data collected by its autonomous vehicles to help cities identify and repair road infrastructure issues. The collaboration aims to improve road conditions using data from Waymo's fleet.
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Partnering with Waze to help cities patch their potholes
Waymo launched a pilot program with Waze that uses its perception systems to detect potholes and provide real-time data to cities through the Waze for Cities platform.
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Partnering with Waze to help cities patch their potholes
Waymo has partnered with Waze to share pothole data collected by its autonomous vehicles to help cities identify and repair road infrastructure issues. This collaboration uses Waymo's sensor data to improve road conditions.
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Partnering with Waze to help cities patch their potholes
Waymo and Waze launched a pilot program using Waymo's perception systems to detect potholes and provide real-time data to cities through the Waze for Cities platform.
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Partnering with Waze to help cities patch their potholes
Waymo has partnered with Waze to share pothole data collected by its autonomous vehicles to help cities identify and repair road infrastructure issues.
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Partnering with Waze to help cities patch their potholes
Waymo partnered with Waze to use its perception systems to detect potholes and provide real-time data to cities and transportation departments through the Waze for Cities platform.
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Partnering with Waze to help cities patch their potholes
Waymo has partnered with Waze to share pothole data collected by its autonomous vehicles to help cities identify and repair road infrastructure issues. The collaboration uses Waymo's sensor data to improve road conditions.
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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.
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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.
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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.