What\u2019s new in AI tools
Automated weekly roundup of release notes and changelogs across every AI tool we track. Currently indexing 485 updates.
This week \u2014 2026-W18
AI Tools This Week: 42 updates across 7 products
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Granular Usage Attribution for dbt Pipelines with Query Tags
Databricks introduces query tags functionality to provide detailed usage attribution for dbt pipelines, helping teams track and manage warehouse costs more effectively.
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Notion 3.6: External Agents, HTML blocks, and more
Introduces external agent orchestration with Claude and Cursor, HTML blocks for interactive content, speaker labels in AI meeting notes, and Microsoft Office file support for Notion Agents.
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F.03 Arrives at BMW
Figure's F.03 humanoid robot has been deployed at BMW facilities. This marks a significant milestone in the commercial deployment of Figure's robotics technology.
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F.03 Arrives at BMW
Figure's F.03 humanoid robot has been deployed at BMW facilities.
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F.03 Arrives at BMW
Figure AI's F.03 humanoid robot has been deployed at BMW facilities for industrial operations.
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From monolith to Lakebase to LTAP: rethinking the database from storage up
Databricks introduces LTAP (Lakehouse Transactional and Analytical Processing) architecture, representing a new approach to database design that unifies transactional and analytical workloads.
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How Databricks is turning video into searchable, actionable intelligence
Databricks launches video intelligence capabilities that enable organizations to extract searchable insights from video content using AI-powered analysis.
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Mission Big Dipper brings agentic execution to revenue teams
Gong launched Mission Big Dipper, introducing the Gong Revenue Harness execution layer with Custom Agents, expanded Gong Assistant capabilities, and new Gong Enable features for rep training. The update enables AI agents to work alongside humans in revenue workflows with governance and oversight.
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Mission Big Dipper brings agentic execution to revenue teams
Gong launched Mission Big Dipper, introducing the Gong Revenue Harness as an agentic execution layer that enables AI agents to work alongside humans in revenue workflows. The update includes Custom Agents that can be built without code, expanded Gong Assistant capabilities, and new Gong Enable features for rep training.
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Mission Big Dipper brings agentic execution to revenue teams
Gong launched Mission Big Dipper, introducing the Gong Revenue Harness execution layer with Custom Agents, expanded Gong Assistant capabilities, and new Gong Enable features including Dry Run and AI Coach.
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Mission Big Dipper: Agentic Execution for Revenue Teams
Gong launched Mission Big Dipper, introducing the Gong Revenue Harness as an agentic execution layer that enables AI agents to work alongside humans in revenue workflows. The update includes Custom Agents that can be built without code, expanded Gong Assistant capabilities, and new Gong Enable features like Dry Run for realistic role-play practice.
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Bringing more control over your connectors
Mistral AI introduced enhanced control features for connectors, allowing users to better manage their data integrations and workflows.
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Introducing Mistral OCR 4
Mistral AI launched OCR 4, a state-of-the-art document intelligence model for optical character recognition and document processing.
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Groq Raises $650M to Scale Its AI Inference Cloud Business
Groq completed a $650 million funding round to expand its AI inference cloud business operations. The funding will support scaling of the company's cloud infrastructure and services.
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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 enhanced voice models for more natural conversations.
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Michael Kelly Injury Lawyers Increases Settlement Values 10X and Expands Litigation Capacity With AI
Boston-based firm processed over 2,500 cases using EvenUp, achieving 10X settlement value increases and reducing medical record review from weeks to seconds.
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Introducing Waymo Premier, an elevated rider experience
Waymo launched Waymo Premier, a premium tier service offering an elevated experience for top riders. The service provides enhanced features and benefits for frequent users.
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Introducing Waymo Premier, an elevated rider experience
Waymo launched Premier, a premium tier service offering an elevated experience for top riders. The new service tier provides enhanced features and benefits for frequent users.
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Introducing Waymo Premier, an elevated rider experience
Waymo launches Premier, a premium tier service offering enhanced rider experience.
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Introducing Waymo Premier, an elevated rider experience
Waymo launched Premier, a premium tier service offering an elevated experience for top riders. The new service tier provides enhanced features for frequent users of Waymo's autonomous ride-hailing platform.
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Introducing Waymo Premier, an elevated rider experience
Waymo launched Premier, a premium tier service offering an elevated experience for top riders. The new service tier provides enhanced features and amenities for frequent users.
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Introducing Waymo Premier, an elevated rider experience
Waymo launched Waymo Premier, a premium tier service offering an elevated experience for top riders of their autonomous ride-hailing service.
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Introducing Waymo Premier, an elevated rider experience
Waymo launched Premier, a new premium tier service offering enhanced rider experience features. The service provides priority status and elevated amenities for riders.
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Introducing Waymo Premier, an elevated rider experience
Waymo launched Premier, a premium tier service offering an elevated experience for top riders of their autonomous ride-hailing service.
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Introducing Waymo Premier, an elevated rider experience
Waymo launched Premier, a new premium service tier offering an enhanced rider experience with additional features and amenities.
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Introducing Waymo's New Reference Model for Human Collision Avoidance
Waymo published joint research with TU Delft in Nature Communications advancing an active inference framework to model human crash-avoidance behavior. The work provides a benchmark for collision avoidance capabilities.
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Introducing Waymo's New Reference Model for Human Collision Avoidance
Waymo releases a new reference model for human collision avoidance technology.
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Introducing Waymo's New Reference Model for Human Collision Avoidance
Waymo developed a new reference model for human collision avoidance to improve autonomous vehicle safety benchmarking. The model provides better standards for evaluating collision prevention capabilities.
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Introducing Waymo's New Reference Model for Human Collision Avoidance
Waymo developed a new reference model for human collision avoidance to improve autonomous vehicle safety benchmarking. The model provides better standards for measuring collision avoidance performance.
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Introducing Waymo's New Reference Model for Human Collision Avoidance
Waymo released a new reference model designed to improve collision avoidance capabilities by better predicting human behavior patterns.
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A second life for EV batteries, clean energy for communities
Waymo announced a partnership with B2U Storage Solutions to repurpose retired EV batteries from their fleet for local electricity grid storage. The program gives batteries a second life powering communities.
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A second life for EV batteries, clean energy for communities
Waymo announced a partnership to repurpose electric vehicle batteries for community clean energy projects. The initiative extends battery lifecycle and supports sustainable energy infrastructure.
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A second life for EV batteries, clean energy for communities
Waymo announced a partnership to repurpose electric vehicle batteries for community clean energy projects. The initiative gives retired EV batteries a second life in energy storage applications.
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January Drop 2026
Introduced specialized AI agents for marketing, advanced code search and writing for engineers, and enhanced Assistant capabilities.
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February Drop 2026
Released 85+ new agent actions, conversational deployment analytics, and specialized engineering agents for workflow automation.
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Same Driver, new vehicle: Welcoming our first riders trips in the Ojai
Waymo began welcoming public riders to experience the Ojai, their next-generation autonomous vehicle. The new vehicle has been tested with employees for months and offers an enhanced rider experience.
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Same Driver, new vehicle: Welcoming our first riders trips in the Ojai
Waymo began offering rider trips in their new Ojai vehicle model while maintaining the same autonomous driving technology. This represents the deployment of a new vehicle platform for passenger service.
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Same Driver, new vehicle: Welcoming our first riders trips in the Ojai
Waymo began offering public rides in their new Ojai vehicle after months of employee testing. The Ojai is designed as a next-generation autonomous vehicle experience.
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Same Driver, new vehicle: Welcoming our first riders trips in the Ojai
Waymo began offering rider trips in their new Ojai vehicle model. The deployment maintains the same autonomous driving technology while introducing a new vehicle platform.
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Same Driver, new vehicle: Welcoming our first riders trips in the Ojai
Waymo began welcoming public riders to experience trips in their new Ojai vehicle after months of employee testing.
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Same Driver, new vehicle: Welcoming our first riders trips in the Ojai
Waymo introduced the Ojai as a new vehicle option in their autonomous fleet, marking the first passenger trips in this vehicle model.
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Introducing Search Toolkit
Mistral AI released Search Toolkit for building production search pipelines that can be deployed anywhere.
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Vibe gets to work
Mistral AI launched Vibe, a unified agent for long-horizon productivity and coding with Work and Code modes, plus a new VS Code extension.
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ChatGPT app, Dynamic voice speed, A/B testing, and more
Introduced ChatGPT app for building voice agents, dynamic voice speed that adapts to caller pace, and A/B testing capabilities for splitting call traffic across multiple agents.
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Prompt Caching added
Prompt caching automatically reuses computation from recent requests when they share a common prefix, delivering 50% cost savings for cached portions and improved response times. The feature works automatically with no code changes required and data expires within hours for privacy.
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Python SDK v0.31.1, TypeScript SDK v0.32.0 changed
Updated Python SDK to v0.31.1 and TypeScript SDK to v0.32.0 with improved chat completion message type definitions and added support for new Groq Compound tools. Fixes compatibility issues with different message formats.
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Moonshot AI Kimi K2 Instruct 0905 added
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+ tokens/second.
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Merge cells in simple tables
Users can now merge cells in simple tables to create headers spanning multiple columns or group related rows into structured layouts.
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Figure Signs Agreement with Catalyst Brands to Scale Humanoid Operations
Figure AI announced a strategic partnership with Catalyst Brands to expand humanoid robot operations.
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Merge cells in simple tables
Users can now merge cells in simple tables to create headers spanning multiple columns and structured layouts.