OpenAI
This week’s highlights
OpenAI announced the launch of OpenAI for Australia, aiming to build sovereign AI infrastructure and upskill over 1.5 million workers locally. Additionally, OpenAI’s acquisition of Neptune (read more) will enhance model behavior visibility and improve tools for experiment tracking and training monitoring.
- How confessions can keep language models honest
- Announcing the initial People-First AI Fund grantees
- Inside Mirakl’s agentic commerce vision
- Funding grants for new research into AI and mental health
Slack
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No updates this week
Atlassian
This week’s highlights
Atlassian unveiled the new Rovo MCP Connector for ChatGPT, enabling users to integrate Jira and Confluence seamlessly within ChatGPT for enhanced task automation and insights. Additionally, they introduced a hierarchical multi-agent orchestration framework in Rovo Chat that improves task handling capabilities by delegating subtasks to specialized subagents, boosting both response quality and latency.
Google Blog
This week’s highlights
This week, Google introduced several exciting AI advancements including Gemini 3, their latest multimodal AI model, and the new Gemini 3 Deep Think mode now available in the Gemini app for Ultra subscribers, enhancing reasoning capabilities. Additionally, Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers now enjoy higher rate limits for the agentic development platform Google Antigravity, addressing growing demand.
- The latest AI news we announced in November
- Hands on with Fitbit’s personal health coach
- 4 new ways Chrome autofill will simplify your holidays
- Google Play Books marks 15 years of bookselling
- New research from Google Workspace reveals how young leaders are using AI at work.
- Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
- Year in Search 2025: What and how we searched this year
- Our favorite Chrome extensions in 2025
- Look back on your 2025 with Google Photos Recap
- Drive with “SpongeBob” on Waze.
- We’re announcing new health AI funding, while a new report signals a turning point for health in Europe.
- How institutions worldwide used Google for Education tools in 2025
- Virtual Apparel Try On tool comes to the UK and India this festive season.
- We’re celebrating Geoffrey Hinton’s Nobel-winning legacy with the University of Toronto.
- Use Circle to Search and Google Lens to spot scam messages.
- Stay organized and express yourself with Android 16’s new updates
- 7 ways we’re making Android more accessible
Anthropic
This week’s highlights
Anthropic announced a significant $200 million partnership with Snowflake to bring agentic AI capabilities to global enterprises, expanding their collaborative efforts. Additionally, Anthropic acquired Bun and celebrated Claude Code reaching the $1 billion milestone, marking a major achievement in their product growth. Learn more about these developments here and here.
Salesforce
This week’s highlights
This week, Salesforce introduced important advancements around AI-driven collaboration, intelligent data handling, and automation. Notably, Designing AI for Collaboration: The Future of Work is Multiplayer highlights new frameworks for AI systems to support complex team-based workflows across sharing, coordinating, cooperating, and co-creating modes—ushering in a multiplayer approach to AI interaction. The Continuous Data Protection add-on for Backup & Recover was unveiled, enabling near-zero data loss through real-time change capture, meeting stringent recovery point objectives. Additionally, Salesforce detailed how it is reducing employee IT tickets by 70% using AI agents integrated with MuleSoft, as covered in How Our AI Agents Are Eliminating 70% of Employee Self-Service IT Tickets, illustrating the power of autonomous AI for improving internal operations.
- Why Good Context Engineering is About Good Design
- 5 Steps Startups Should Follow for Successful Product Development
- What Are the Best Shopify Alternatives for Small Businesses?
- Vector Search in Unstructured Data Using Data Actions
- Why Your Small Business Needs a Mobile App (And How To Get Started)
- Stop Chasing Compliance. Configure It Directly into Your Business Processes.
- 3 Steps to Launching Opportunity-Based Marketing Strategies with Salesforce
Google Workspace
This week’s highlights
This week, Google Workspace introduced Google Workspace Studio, enabling users to create, manage, and share AI agents to automate complex workflows without coding. Additionally, new Google Meet hardware features are rolling out, including a “Connect room” option for seamless meeting starts via proximity detection, and a refreshed user interface for Meet hardware touch controllers to enhance meeting management. In Google Chat, space owners can now disable requests to join restricted spaces, tightening access control.
- BYOD on Google Meet on Chrome OS touch controller rooms
- A more modern interface for viewing PDFs, videos, images, and audio files in Google Drive on the web
- Get quick insights on your Google Drive folders with Gemini
- Google Meet translated captions now available in Cantonese
- Choose your preferred caption language for Meet live streams on mobile devices
- New to Gmail: share emails in Google Chat
- Educators can now assign public notebooks in Google Classroom