Weekly AI Digest – 1 September 2025

OpenAI

This week’s highlights

OpenAI launched gpt-realtime featuring an advanced speech-to-speech model and new API capabilities including MCP server support, image input, and SIP phone calling support. Additionally, the OpenAI Learning Accelerator was announced to bring advanced AI tools and training to educators and learners across India.

Slack

This week’s highlights

No updates this week

Atlassian

This week’s highlights

Atlassian has significantly enhanced Rovo Chat with new capabilities that allow it to autonomously handle complex multi-step tasks, integrate deeply across Atlassian and popular SaaS apps, and offer a persistent, adaptive memory linked to your organization’s Teamwork Graph. These updates enable Rovo Chat to act as a true teammate—understanding context, executing actions across apps, and delivering actionable insights directly within conversations. Explore these powerful new features in detail here.

Google Blog

This week’s highlights

Google has introduced several exciting AI-powered updates across its product lineup, including the new Magic Cue feature on Pixel devices that uses on-device AI to suggest timely actions and information (learn more). The Gemini app also received a major upgrade to its image editing capabilities with an updated native model for more powerful transformations (details here), while Google Translate now offers enhanced AI-powered live translation and language learning tools (read more).

Anthropic

This week’s highlights

Anthropic released an update on efforts to detect and counter misuse of AI, outlining enhanced strategies for safety and security in AI deployment. Read more about these advancements here.

Salesforce

This week’s highlights

This week, Salesforce spotlighted the transformative potential of agentic AI in marketing, highlighting five core marketing skills needed to thrive alongside autonomous AI agents that execute campaigns and optimize journeys independently. Additionally, they shared in-depth insights into improving the reliability and scalability of AI agents in production environments via effective AI environment management practices, emphasizing platform-native tools like Salesforce Sandboxes and DevOps Center. Finally, Salesforce AI Research published new findings on enhancing large language model agents for CRM tasks, demonstrating how detailed technical workflows and full-function implementations can significantly boost agent accuracy in specialized business scenarios — read more at Better LLM Agents for CRM Tasks: Tips and Tricks.

Google Workspace

This week’s highlights

Google Workspace introduces powerful new AI-driven features with Gemini now supporting image understanding directly in Drive, allowing users to summarize images, extract text, and convert receipts to tables. The Gemini app also gains advanced image editing capabilities, enabling users to creatively reimagine photos with prompts. Additionally, Google Vids evolves with AI avatars for script-driven video narration and the ability to convert images into dynamic videos using Veo 3, alongside transcript-based video editing that trims filler words for smoother content. Admins can now apply Context-Aware Access policies seamlessly to all OpenID Connect apps, enhancing security controls.


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