Slack
This week’s highlights
Slack has introduced a new interface that transforms Slackbot into your ultimate teammate by enabling agent orchestration. This update allows Slackbot to route agents, pull context, and automate tasks seamlessly, making work faster and more efficient. Learn more here.
Atlassian
This week’s highlights
Atlassian explores the AI efficiency paradox in software development, highlighting that AI-driven speedups in individual work alone don’t translate to faster overall team throughput without redesigning collaboration workflows. They also demonstrate how AI, when integrated into research tools like Dovetail and Confluence, can transform the research process by speeding up synthesis and reporting while keeping humans in control, as detailed in How Amdahl’s Law still applies to modern-day AI inefficiencies and What actually changes when AI joins your research process.
- How Amdahl’s Law still applies to modern-day AI inefficiencies
- What actually changes when AI joins your research process
Google Blog
This week’s highlights
Google introduced Gemma 4, their most capable open AI models designed for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, and added two new inference tiers, Flex and Priority, to the Gemini API to help balance cost and latency. Additionally, Google Vids received new AI-powered features including free high-quality video generation with Lyria 3 and Veo 3.1. Also notable is the release of the Gemini API Docs MCP and Agent Skills tools to improve coding agents’ accuracy with the latest Gemini API updates. Learn more about these updates here, here, here, and here.
- Build with Veo 3.1 Lite, our most cost-effective video generation model
- New personal health coach features are coming to Fitbit.
- Here’s how to watch Coachella on YouTube.
- Give your laptop a new life with ChromeOS Flex
- Reaffirming our commitment to child safety in the face of European Union inaction
- Google.org and Highlights for Children have helped 1 million students navigate the digital world.
- Our AI Literacy Day recap: putting educators in the lead
- We’re creating a new satellite imagery map to help protect Brazil’s forests.
- The latest AI news we announced in March 2026
- Save the date: YouTube Brandcast is May 13, 2026.
- Check out more certified refurbished Pixel models on the Google Store and Amazon Renewed.
- Change your Google Account username in a few simple steps.
- Google’s ‘AI Works for Britain’ aims to help stuck Brits unlock progression
- Explore Benjamin Franklin’s scientific discoveries on NotebookLM
- Google Maps simplifies battery predictions and trip planning for 350+ Android Auto EV models.
- Evolving expectations of what’s possible
Anthropic
This week’s highlights
No updates this week
Salesforce
This week’s highlights
This week, Salesforce highlighted how the Agentforce 360 Platform is accelerating AI agent development and deployment at scale, featuring Engine’s success story with a hybrid low-code and pro-code approach achieving rapid iteration and enterprise-grade AI automation. Additionally, the introduction of Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent2Agent (A2A) integrations offers new, flexible ways to connect agents with external systems or other specialized agents, enhancing performance and security in AI workflows. The Trailbread learning initiative also launched, enabling hands-on skill-building with Agentforce Builder through a creative and engaging Trailhead badge experience. Explore more about these innovations in Engine’s Agentforce 360 story, Agentforce integration patterns, and Trailbread for Trailhead.
- AI Broke Your Job Title ‘Moat.’ What Happens Now?
- How to Design for Trust in Agentforce Voice
- Top 10 Conversational AI Support Platforms For Startups
- What Is Task Delegation and Are You Doing It Right?
- Proving the Power of Script: How Datasite Agents Achieved 82% Deflection and 4.8/5 CSAT
- Building Efficient RL Training for the Agentic Era
- 10 Mobile App Marketing Tips for Small Teams
Google Workspace
This week’s highlights
This week, Google Workspace introduced several powerful AI-driven enhancements in Google Vids, including the ability to create and refine custom avatars with Nano Banana 2 and direct avatars to speak and act consistently across scenes with Veo 3.1, enriching video content creation. Additionally, Google Meet is now accessible via Apple CarPlay for hands-free meetings on the go, and users can export Google Vids directly to YouTube, streamlining video publishing. Also notable is the launch of guest accounts in Google Chat, allowing secure collaboration with non-Workspace users under organizational security policies. Learn more about these updates here, here, here, here, and here.
- Record your screen directly from Chrome with the Google Vids Screen Recorder Chrome Extension
- Enabling user-initiated purchases, starting with higher access to advanced AI features in Workspace
- Upcoming change to default setting for downloading Google Meet recordings
- Form creation with Gemini and more now available in more languages
- Generate beautiful and editable slides with ease in Google Slides
- An update on secondary calendar lifecycle changes and a new API
- Download the third-party attestation for data regions
- Ransomware detection and file restoration for Google Drive now generally available