Slack
This week’s highlights
This week, Slack introduced enhanced Enterprise Search capabilities that leverage AI to help teams find information faster, break down silos, and boost productivity. Explore how these new tools integrate seamlessly into your workflow in the full Enterprise Search: When Knowledge Comes to You article.
Atlassian
This week’s highlights
Atlassian launched Deep Research v2, a next-gen AI research engine featuring iterative, multi-turn workflows, adaptive orchestration via specialized agents, and enhanced report depth and traceability. Additionally, the integration of Rovo at Atlassian Williams Racing demonstrates how AI-powered search, chat, and agents accelerate teamwork by breaking down silos and surfacing critical engineering knowledge in real time.
- Why 2026 will be the year AI grows up
- Ravi Mehta on shifting from craft to judgment in the age of AI
Google Blog
This week’s highlights
This week, Google launched Gemini 3 Flash, a next-generation AI model delivering lightning-fast intelligence, now rolling out globally in Google Search (read more) and available for developers (build with Gemini 3 Flash). Additionally, the Gemini app received new features including December’s Gemini Drop update and the ability to verify Google AI-generated videos, enhancing content transparency. NotebookLM introduced Data Tables for easier organization of scattered key facts, streamlining information management.
- Why we’re taking legal action against SerpApi’s unlawful scraping
- 40 of our most helpful AI tips from 2025
- 10 Gemini prompts to help you keep your New Years’ resolutions
- 5 ways AI agents will transform the way we work in 2026
- AI, learning and education
- T5Gemma 2: The next generation of encoder-decoder models
- FunctionGemma: Bringing bespoke function calling to the edge
- Create a custom Wear OS watch face with your personalized Android bot.
- Inside Kaggle’s AI Agents intensive course with Google
- Caring for the Future: a Council of Europe expert reads “The Future Report”
- Watch a podcast discussion about Gemini 3 and the future of Search.
- Complying with Japan’s Mobile Software Competition Act
- The top holiday deals, games and updates from Google Play
Anthropic
This week’s highlights
Anthropic announced a new partnership with the US Department of Energy aimed at advancing scientific discovery through AI, detailed here. They also shared their compliance framework for California’s Transparency in Frontier AI Act, ensuring transparency and responsible AI deployment, available here.
Salesforce
This week’s highlights
This week, Salesforce announced the beta launch of Agent Health Monitoring within Agentforce Studio, a proactive tool to detect and alert on AI agent performance issues in real time, helping teams catch “silent failures” before they impact customers. Additionally, Salesforce achieved the new ISO/IEC 22301:2019 certification, reinforcing its commitment to operational resilience and uninterrupted service across key products like Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Slack, and Agentforce. Another major update is the general availability of the Next Gen Marketing Cloud and Archive for ISVs, enabling independent software vendors to embed AI-native marketing and data archival capabilities seamlessly into their applications, backed by new flexible licensing options.
- Salesforce Bolsters Customer Trust and Resilience with Net New ISO 22301Certification
- Launch Your Sales Career: The SDRA and SDR Accelerated Path to AE
- How to Become an AI Business
- 5 Principles for Managing Your Data’s Compliance Lifecycle
- Beyond the AI Hype: Five Trends That Will Transform Business in 2026
- The Beginner’s Guide to Developing a Website
- The Architect Mindset: Designing for Scale in an Evolving Ecosystem
- 2025 in Review: Design is How AI Finds Meaning
Google Workspace
This week’s highlights
This week, Google Workspace expanded creative capabilities by enabling image generation in the Gemini app for users of all ages, including those under 18, with enhanced safety features (read more). Additionally, Google introduced Gemini 3 Flash, a high-speed AI model in the Gemini app designed for faster, multimodal understanding to assist with tasks like summarization and data extraction (read more). Lastly, Google Workspace audit log API enhancements now offer more granular datasets and filtering options for improved incident investigations (read more).
- Google AI Ultra for Business plan adds enhanced NotebookLM experience
- Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap – December 19, 2025
- Our best avatars in Google Vids yet, now powered by Veo 3.1
- Block messages from unknown senders in Google Chat
- Keep your team informed: Introducing the Feeds app for Google Chat
- Share your device’s audio when presenting in Google Meet
- Share stereo sound with audio content in Google Meet
- Accelerate validation of Google Meet eCDN configuration at scale with Silent Test Mode