What\u2019s new in AI tools
Automated weekly roundup of release notes and changelogs across every AI tool we track. Currently indexing 287 updates.
This week \u2014 2026-W18
AI Tools This Week: 42 updates across 7 products
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April Drop 2026
Launched slide and interactive HTML page generation, plus embedded MCP Apps in Glean Assistant for cross-tool actions.
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May Drop 2026
Added real-time voice capabilities, company-aware Skills, and enhanced action-taking across existing team tools.
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Notion 3.7: Agent skills for your whole team
Introduces Skills - reusable AI instructions that teams can create, share, and run across different AI agents. Includes skills library, automatic execution, and integration with external tools like Claude, Codex, and Cursor.
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Introducing Shieldstral
Mistral introduced Shieldstral, a new AI safety and security 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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Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier
Mistral announced it has raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion.
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Vegas, Deal Us In! We're welcoming riders today
Waymo launched public autonomous ride-hailing service in Las Vegas, expanding to provide fully autonomous trips for residents and visitors.
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Adaptive Instructed-Retriever: Frontier-Quality Search at 2x Lower Latency
Databricks releases Adaptive Instructed-Retriever, delivering improved search quality with 50% reduced latency for enterprise data agents.
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Control which AI models your agents can use
Workspace owners can now choose which AI models are available in Notion Agent and Custom Agents separately, with default model settings. Available on Business and Enterprise plans.
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March Drop 2026
Released remote MCP server to ground ChatGPT and Claude in company context, and expanded Assistant/Agents with third-party MCP tools.
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April Drop 2026
Added slide and HTML page generation features, 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 integration across existing team tools.
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Introducing Robostral Navigate
Mistral releases Robostral Navigate, their first model specifically designed for embodied navigation tasks. The model enables AI systems to navigate physical environments.
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Introducing Shieldstral
Mistral launches Shieldstral, a new AI safety and security solution. The product appears to focus on content moderation and safety controls for AI systems.
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Agentic Search
Mistral introduces a retrieval layer that helps AI systems navigate, read, and verify information across complex documents. The system provides more accurate and efficient results for AI applications.
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In-region inference, open models, and new European infrastructure for sovereign AI
Mistral is launching inference infrastructure, open models, and long-term commitments for European AI sovereignty. The initiative includes new compute infrastructure and a roadmap for global AI control.
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GPT-6 Astra is generally available in GitHub Copilot
The GPT-6 Astra model is now generally available for use within GitHub Copilot.
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GPT-6 Astra is generally available in GitHub Copilot
GPT-6 Astra model is now generally available for use in GitHub Copilot.
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Figure and Nscale Sign Strategic Partnership For Up to 100,000 GPUs on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin Platform
Figure AI announced a strategic partnership with Nscale to access up to 100,000 GPUs on NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform for scaling their AI training capabilities.
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Figure and Nscale Sign Strategic Partnership For Up to 100,000 GPUs on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin Platform
Figure AI announced a strategic partnership with Nscale to access up to 100,000 GPUs on NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform for enhanced computing capabilities.
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Expanding Genie Agents: Deep analysis, file reasoning, and more
Databricks announced the evolution of Genie Spaces to Genie Agents with enhanced capabilities for deep analysis and file reasoning. This represents a significant expansion of their AI agent functionality.
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Copilot code review can now approve pull requests
GitHub Copilot code review gained the ability to automatically approve pull requests based on its analysis.
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LexisNexis and EvenUp Announce Strategic Alliance, Bringing Trusted Legal AI to Personal Injury Professionals
EvenUp announced a strategic partnership with LexisNexis to integrate trusted legal AI insights and citation-backed research capabilities for personal injury professionals.
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LexisNexis and EvenUp Announce Strategic Alliance, Bringing Trusted Legal AI to Personal Injury Professionals
EvenUp announced a strategic partnership with LexisNexis to integrate their AI-powered claims analysis with LexisNexis Protégé's legal research platform. The alliance allows mutual customers to access citation-backed legal insights and AI tools for personal injury cases.
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Welcoming our first riders in Denver, San Diego, and Tampa
Waymo began offering public autonomous rides in three new cities, bringing the total to 14 cities with fully autonomous ride-hailing service.
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LexisNexis and EvenUp Announce Strategic Alliance, Bringing Trusted Legal AI to Personal Injury Professionals
EvenUp announced a strategic partnership with LexisNexis to integrate their AI-powered claims analysis with LexisNexis Protégé's legal research platform. The integration allows mutual customers to access citation-backed legal insights and agentic AI capabilities.
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Welcoming our first riders in Denver, San Diego, and Tampa
Waymo begins offering fully autonomous ride-hailing service to public riders in three new cities. This expansion brings Waymo's service to 14 total cities.
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Copilot code review can now approve pull requests
GitHub Copilot's code review feature can now automatically approve pull requests.
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ChatGPT app, Dynamic voice speed, A/B testing, and more
Released ChatGPT integration allowing users to build production-ready voice agents directly through ChatGPT, plus dynamic voice speed adjustments and A/B testing capabilities.
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Agent Versioning 2.0, Granular Multilingual, Custom Voicemail, Voice Orb, and more
Introduced Agent Versioning 2.0 with environment tags and draft management, granular multilingual support with automatic language detection, and custom voicemail handling capabilities.
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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, built-in CRM integration with Salesforce and HubSpot, and new voice models for more natural conversations.
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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.
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Groq Raises $650M to Scale Its AI Inference Cloud Business
Groq secured $650 million in funding to scale their AI inference cloud business operations. The capital will support infrastructure expansion and business growth.
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Groq Closes $350 million Series A, Building the World's Leading AI Inference Cloud
Groq completed a $350 million Series A funding round to build and scale their AI inference cloud infrastructure. The funding will support expansion of their inference capabilities.
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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 AI inference hardware offerings.
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Introducing Robostral Navigate
Mistral released Robostral Navigate, their first model built specifically for embodied navigation tasks. The model is designed for robotics and spatial navigation applications.
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Introducing Shieldstral
Mistral released Shieldstral, a new AI safety and moderation model. The model is designed to provide content filtering and safety capabilities.
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Agentic Search
Mistral launched Agentic Search, a retrieval layer that helps AI systems navigate, read, and verify information inside and across complex documents. The system provides more accurate and efficient results from AI systems.
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Introducing Governance Hub: Intelligent, account-level governance over your Databricks estate
Databricks launches Governance Hub, providing intelligent account-level governance capabilities across Databricks deployments. The feature enables FinOps teams to drill down into spending and identify cost drivers.
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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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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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May Drop 2026
Introduces real-time voice capabilities, company-aware Skills, and enhanced action-taking across existing team tools.
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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.