Slack
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This week, Slack introduced the all-new Slackbot, a deeply personalised AI agent designed to enhance productivity by providing context-aware assistance tailored to your work.
Atlassian
This week’s highlights
Atlassian highlights a major shift in software development roles driven by AI: software engineers are evolving into Product Engineers who integrate deep customer context, strategic problem-solving, and technical excellence to build what truly matters. Additionally, product managers are encouraged to embark on the “Builder’s Path,” progressing from rapid AI prototyping to creating scalable AI-driven workflows and hardened code, supported by leadership modeling and organizational enablement. Explore more on adopting these approaches in the detailed posts AI turns software engineers into product engineers and How AI turns product managers back into builders.
Google Blog
This week’s highlights
This week, Google announced campaign total budgets now available across Search, Performance Max, and Shopping campaigns, simplifying budget management. The Veo 3.1 update has been released in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, providing enhanced creative control and production-quality video generation. Additionally, the Gemini API now supports increased file size limits and expanded input options, enabling more flexible usage for developers.
- Why we’re appealing the DOJ Search distribution case
- TranslateGemma: A new suite of open translation models
- How Nano Banana got its name
- It’s a sunny day on YouTube, with more than 100 “Sesame Street” episodes available to watch for free.
- Learners and educators are AI’s new “super users”
- Celebrating 250 years of America, from its history to its future
- Try these tips to plan a trip with Canvas in AI Mode
- An easier way to explore Search trends with Gemini
- Gemini introduces Personal Intelligence
- Introducing Community Benchmarks on Kaggle
- Announcing the winner of the Global AI Film Award
- Veo 3.1 Ingredients to Video: More consistency, creativity and control
- Google Search is celebrating 250 years of America.
- New biddable capabilities for live sports with Display & Video 360
- Joint statement from Google and Apple
Anthropic
This week’s highlights
Anthropic has introduced Labs, a new platform designed to enhance AI experimentation and development. Additionally, the company announced the appointment of Irina Ghose as Managing Director of India, coinciding with the upcoming opening of their Bengaluru office, marking a significant expansion in their global presence.
Salesforce
This week’s highlights
This week Salesforce introduced significant new advancements in AI agent and software engineering capabilities. The Agentforce Builder now enables no-code, natural language creation of AI agents with built-in safety controls, democratizing AI development across business teams. Additionally, the Agentforce MCP Beta brings streamlined third-party tool integration with fine-grained allowlist controls, enhancing security and interoperability of AI agents. Salesforce also unveiled TEX, a novel hybrid test-time scaling method that boosts the performance of software engineering AI agents by leveraging parallel cross-validation and learning among multiple agent candidates, setting new state-of-the-art results in automated test-case generation and bug fixing.
- The AI Development Guide to Choosing the Right Sandbox
- Upsell Without Losing The Sale: A Quick Guide For Startups
- Make Your Sales Kickoff the Party of the Year
- Mailchimp Alternatives: The Big List For Small Business
- Architecting with Context: Power the Agentic Enterprise with Salesforce and Informatica
- MoiraiAgent: An Agentic Framework for Context-Aware Time-Series Forecasting
- New B2B innovations for Agentforce Commerce
Google Workspace
This week’s highlights
This week, Google Workspace introduced the new AI-powered Flow filmmaking tool, now available with granular admin controls for Workspace customers. Enhancements to editing password-protected Microsoft Office files directly in Google Drive improves interoperability by allowing users to open and edit protected files natively in Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Additionally, automatic room check-in for Google Meet is now available on mobile devices, streamlining meeting join processes via ultrasound proximity detection.
- Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap – January 16, 2026
- SecOps data connector now available for Google Workspace for Education Plus and Standard
- Ingredients to Video in Veo 3.1 now supports portrait-sized clips in Google Vids
- Set Google Forms to automatically stop accepting responses based on date and time or response count