What\u2019s new in AI tools
Automated weekly roundup of release notes and changelogs across every AI tool we track. Currently indexing 521 updates.
This week \u2014 2026-W18
AI Tools This Week: 42 updates across 7 products
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10 AI Lessons from Driving 200+ Million Fully Autonomous Miles
Waymo shared ten fundamental insights about building AI systems based on their experience driving over 200 million autonomous miles.
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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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Introducing Index: Building The World's Largest and Most Diverse Physical Dataset
Figure AI launched Index, a comprehensive physical dataset project aimed at creating the world's largest collection of diverse physical interaction data. This dataset will support training of humanoid robots across various real-world scenarios.
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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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Groq Raises $650M to Scale Its AI Inference Cloud Business
Groq secured $650 million in funding to scale its AI inference cloud operations and infrastructure.
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Groq Becomes an NVIDIA Cloud Partner
Groq entered into a cloud partnership with NVIDIA to enhance AI inference capabilities.
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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 expand its AI inference cloud infrastructure.
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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 partnership with NVIDIA.
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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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Setting the Global Standard for Privacy in Autonomous Mobility
Waymo outlined their privacy approach for riders, partners, and road users as they expand to serve more customers globally.
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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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Setting the Global Standard for Privacy in Autonomous Mobility
Waymo outlined new privacy standards and protections for autonomous vehicle data collection and user information.
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Leanstral 1.5: Proof Abundance for All
Mistral released Leanstral 1.5, an updated version of their mathematical proof verification model.
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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
Adds a new Developer section to the sidebar for managing Workers, connections, and personal access tokens, plus a developer bar for copying API IDs.
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Your Developer Portal, now in the sidebar
Adds a new Developer section to the sidebar for managing Workers, connections, and personal access tokens, plus a developer bar for easy API object access.
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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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Groq Closes $350 million Series A, Building the World's Leading AI Inference Cloud
Groq successfully raises $350 million in Series A funding to expand its AI inference cloud infrastructure. The funding will support the company's mission to build leading AI inference capabilities.
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Groq Closes $350 million Series A, Building the World's Leading AI Inference Cloud
Groq successfully raises $350 million in Series A funding to expand their AI inference cloud infrastructure. The funding will support scaling their cloud business operations.