OpenAI
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No major new features or product updates were announced this week.
Slack
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No updates this week
Atlassian
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No updates this week
Google Blog
This week’s highlights
Google Workspace has introduced Vids, an AI-powered video creation app designed for training and demos. Google AI Ultra subscribers now receive double credits for video creation in Flow and Whisk, enhancing creative workflows (source). Additionally, the Gemini app received an update with Temporary Chats and enhanced personalization features, allowing it to better learn user preferences (source).
- 14 ways Googlers use AI to work smarter
- Our first advanced nuclear reactor project with Kairos Power and Tennessee Valley Authority
- Google is supporting Los Angeles small businesses with post-wildfire recovery.
- Catch up on the newest features in August’s Gemini Drop.
- Street View has now come to Nepal.
- 5 Chrome features I use all the time as a college student
- Ride in Benson Boone’s Mustang on Google Maps — and more
- 3 new ways to unlock iOS App campaign performance
- 5 ways to recover from the “summer slide” with Google Arts & Culture
- Flight Deals is our new, AI-powered flight search tool
- See how San Diego State University is leading the way in higher-education AI.
- Google is investing in infrastructure and an AI-ready workforce in Oklahoma.
- Miami-Dade County Public Schools uses Gemini for Education for 100,000 high-school students and teachers.
Anthropic
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No updates this week
Salesforce
This week’s highlights
This week, Salesforce unveiled major enhancements to its Trailhead superbadges, introducing greater flexibility with collaborative completion and removing prerequisite requirements for access, making hands-on learning more accessible to Trailblazers. Additionally, the Agentforce for Impact program expanded, showcasing how nonprofits are leveraging agentic AI to automate tedious tasks, unlock capacity, and amplify mission-critical work. Salesforce also highlighted strategic guidance on choosing between deterministic and non-deterministic AI behaviors in designing intelligent agents with Agentforce, emphasizing a hybrid approach for optimal enterprise use cases.
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- How to Write a Case Study That Builds Trust For Your Business
- Is Your Point-of-Sale Experience Outdated? How (and When) to Modernize Your System
- How Is AI Affecting Entry-Level Jobs?
- Ready for the Holidays: The Importance of Performance and Load Testing in August
- Human-AI Collaboration: 4 Ways To Master One of Today’s Hottest Skills
- Why You Shouldn’t Be Scared of Digital Labor For Your Startup or SMB
Google Workspace
This week’s highlights
This week, Google introduced the ability to listen to documents using Gemini in Google Docs, offering customizable natural-sounding audio for improved accessibility. Developers can now manage student groups programmatically through the new Google Classroom API Student Groups endpoints. Additionally, Google Chat enhanced its Gemini-powered summaries with a feature to catch up on unread messages within conversations, detailed here.
- Arrow keys now move an object by a pixel distance in Google Slides
- Improving the ISEMAIL and ISURL functions in Google Sheets
- Coming soon: A refreshed user interface for Google Meet hardware touch controllers, test it now in preview
- Increased credit limit for Google AI Ultra for Business users and expanded country availability to Whisk
- Google Workspace Updates Recap – August 15, 2025
- Approval workflow for enterprise users to request access to unconfigured apps
- Adding AI image editing features to Google Slides and Google Vids
- Sorting your notes in Google Keep on Android devices
- Quickly add events to Google Calendar with Gemini in Gmail on mobile