Weekly AI Digest – 20 October 2025

OpenAI

This week’s highlights

OpenAI announced a strategic collaboration with Broadcom to deploy 10 gigawatts of OpenAI-designed AI accelerators, aiming to power scalable and energy-efficient AI infrastructure by 2029. Additionally, OpenAI launched an Expert Council on Well-Being and AI to guide the development of safer, more supportive ChatGPT experiences focused on emotional health. Learn more about these initiatives here and here.

Slack

This week’s highlights

No updates this week

Atlassian

This week’s highlights

No updates this week

Google Blog

This week’s highlights

This week, Google introduced new developer controls in AI Studio and launched Grounding with Google Maps in the Gemini API to enable richer geospatial data integration. Additionally, a powerful new 27 billion parameter Gemma foundation model for single-cell analysis was announced, advancing cancer therapy research.

Anthropic

This week’s highlights

Anthropic has introduced Agent Skills, a new feature enhancing agent capabilities for improved task handling. They also announced the expansion of their partnership with Salesforce to bring Claude to regulated industries, detailed here.

Salesforce

This week’s highlights

This week, Salesforce introduced Agentforce Vibes, a new vibe coding tool that leverages large language models to accelerate app development for startups and SMBs, enabling faster product launches without extensive coding expertise. Additionally, Salesforce AI Research unveiled eVerse, an enterprise simulation framework designed to enhance AI agent training and consistency through synthetic data, realistic testing, and reinforcement learning, addressing the challenge of “jagged intelligence” in AI agents. The company also shared an in-depth Well-Architected Framework case study showcasing a real-world internal implementation of Agentforce agents to ensure enterprise-grade trust, ease of use, and adaptability.

Google Workspace

This week’s highlights

This week, Google Workspace introduced several powerful AI-driven enhancements including the AI function in Google Sheets now enhanced with real-time Google Search results for up-to-date answers, and Gemini’s multi-step editing capabilities in Sheets that allow users to execute complex, chained tasks from a single prompt. Education users benefit from Flashcards in Gemini for personalized study aids and Video Overviews in NotebookLM to turn documents into AI-narrated explainer videos. Additionally, new Business Continuity editions were launched providing enterprise backup collaboration environments to maintain resilience during outages.


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