OpenAI
This week’s highlights
OpenAI has rolled out GPT-5.1, featuring smarter, more conversational models with customizable tone and style, now available to paid users (GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT). The API now includes GPT-5.1 with faster adaptive reasoning, extended prompt caching, improved coding tools, and new apply_patch and shell capabilities (Introducing GPT-5.1 for developers). Additionally, group chats in ChatGPT are being piloted to facilitate seamless collaboration (Piloting group chats in ChatGPT).
- GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking System Card Addendum
- Introducing OpenAI for Ireland
- Understanding neural networks through sparse circuits
- How Philips Is scaling AI literacy across 70,000 employees
- Neuro drives national retail wins with ChatGPT Business
- Fighting the New York Times’ invasion of user privacy
Slack
This week’s highlights
Slack has expanded its global data residency options, now offering Switzerland, UAE, and Brazil as new regions for customers to store their data securely and comply with local regulations. This update enhances Slack’s commitment to data privacy and compliance; read more here.
Atlassian
This week’s highlights
Atlassian released new insights into effective AI collaboration and developer workflows with the launch of Rovo Dev Research, highlighting how AI-generated code review comments focus on actionable issues like bugs and maintainability to accelerate software delivery. Additionally, Atlassian’s leadership shared a vision for the AI era emphasizing “constructive unreasonableness” and the vital role of design and culture in scaling AI impact, as detailed in Mike Cannon-Brookes on leading in the age of AI. The idea that developers are evolving into tech leads by delegating tasks to AI with proper context further shapes how teams approach AI collaboration, covered in Why AI feels hard: We may need a new lens.
Google Blog
This week’s highlights
This week, NotebookLM introduces “Deep Research” for enhanced source discovery and adds support for Word, PDFs, and Sheets preview. Google also launched Ads Advisor and Analytics Advisor, new AI-powered agentic tools coming this December to help advertisers gain insights and drive impact. Additionally, the agentic checkout feature in Google Shopping debuted, leveraging AI to simplify holiday shopping.
- Google’s investments run deep in the heart of Texas.
- Gen AI is bringing New Yorkers’ imagination to life
- Our proposal in response to the European Commission’s decision about our ad tech business
- The road to useful quantum computing applications
- Doodle for Google is back to celebrate students’ superpowers
- TAG Bulletin: Q3 2025
- We’ve significantly improved the accuracy of advertiser account suspensions.
- Defending Search users from “Parasite SEO” spam
- Google Pixel and Golden Goose partner to bring AI to global ateliers
- We’re introducing a new way to explore and organize images in the Google app.
- 5 ways to have more natural conversations with Gemini
- A dual strategy: legal action and new legislation to fight scammers
- Visit Vilnius on Google Arts & Culture
- How Gemini for Education accelerates learning for over 1 million Italian university students
- Remix makes sending photos to friends even more fun on Google Messages.
- Private AI Compute: our next step in building private and helpful AI
- November Pixel Drop: ‘Wicked: For Good’ theme packs, Remix photos in Messages and more
Anthropic
This week’s highlights
Anthropic announced a major $50 billion investment in American AI infrastructure to expand and enhance AI capabilities across the United States. Additionally, they revealed a partnership with the state of Maryland to leverage AI technology for improved public services, marking a key collaboration between government and AI innovation. Details on these initiatives can be found here and here.
- Measuring political bias in Claude
- Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
Salesforce
This week’s highlights
This week, Salesforce showcased major advances around Agentforce Voice, SLDS 2, and context engineering during Dreamforce 2025, including new capabilities for building AI-ready, trusted components and improving conversational customer engagement. The launch of context engineering as a key methodology highlights Salesforce’s commitment to secure and reliable autonomous AI agents by embedding multi-layered trust guardrails. Additionally, the introduction of the low-code Agent Builder enables teams to rapidly design and deploy AI agents with transparency and control, marking a pivotal step in democratizing AI-powered workflows.
- 6 Small Business Growth Strategies For 2026
- 5 Powerful Customer Analytics Tools To Fuel Startup Growth
- How Agentforce Marketing Can Solve 4 Common Holiday Order Issues
- 3 Ways to Get the Most Out of Salesforce Customer Success at Dreamforce
- Back to Build: Why Agentforce Inspired 3 FDEs to Return to Salesforce
- Free CRM For Small Business: How To Get Started
- 5 Things We Learned From Customers at Our Dreamforce Campfire Chats
- Delivering Agentforce Success to SMBs with Niti Praveen
Google Workspace
This week’s highlights
This week, Google Workspace introduced Gemini-based models for AI-powered data classification in Google Drive, now available in closed beta to selected organizations looking to automate and scale labeling efforts. Additionally, the new AI-powered audio overviews for PDFs in Google Drive launched in open beta, allowing users to convert lengthy documents into easy-to-digest podcast-style summaries. Also released in open beta is the Data Migration Service for migrating files securely from Dropbox to Google Drive, facilitating smoother transitions to Workspace. Learn more about these updates: Gemini data classification beta, AI audio overviews for PDFs, and Dropbox to Google Drive migration.
- Desk phone support and on-demand call recording now available in the Google Voice Starter plan
- Help me create in Google Forms now available in seven additional languages
- Analyze large-scale .csv files in Google Sheets with a new direct-to-BigQuery import
- Option for longer meeting notes with “take notes for me” in Google Meet
- Improving secondary calendar management with dedicated owners
- Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap – November 14, 2025