Weekly AI Digest – 9 March 2026

Slack

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Atlassian

This week’s highlights

Atlassian introduced a production-ready AI teammate built with Rovo and Forge that automates team event planning directly in Confluence, showcasing the transition from natural language “magic” to precise engineering using the RACE framework and custom Forge skills (Architecting a Rovo AI Teammate). Additionally, the AI-powered content creation capability with Rovo is now live for all users, supported by rigorously tested “golden prompts” developed through industry-wide collaboration to ensure reliable, persona-specific outputs in real workflows (Behind the Demo: How Cross‑functional Partnerships Turned AI “Golden Prompts” into Real Customer Value).

Google Blog

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Google has expanded Gemini for Education to all 20 Malaysian public universities, benefiting 600,000 students and 75,000 faculty members. The new Canvas in AI Mode is now available to everyone in the U.S., enhancing Search with document drafting and interactive tool building. Additionally, NotebookLM introduced Cinematic Video Overviews, a major update boosting AI-powered video creation capabilities.

Anthropic

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Salesforce

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This week, Salesforce introduced Vertical AI Agents, a new category of specialized AI tools designed to seamlessly integrate with CRM platforms and empower startups and SMBs by automating niche business functions like sales, service, and marketing. Additionally, the Code Extension feature now enables architects to run secure, native Python code inside Data 360, dramatically improving the ability to handle complex data transformations and AI chunking within the Salesforce trust boundary. Salesforce also updated their Record-Triggered Automation Decision Guide, emphasizing automation density as the key factor in choosing between Flow and Apex for scalable, enterprise-grade automation design.

Google Workspace

This week’s highlights

This week, Google Workspace introduced improved join permission logging for Google Meet audit events, providing more detailed permission and admission info for meeting joins (learn more). Workspace admins can now enable Gemini app conversation sharing through public links within organizations, enhancing collaboration across work and school accounts (learn more). Additionally, Google is enhancing the connection between Google Calendar events and Meet calls to prevent sharing meeting artifacts with unintended guests (learn more), and Google Chat apps can now support dynamic data sources for dropdown menus, enabling real-time querying of large data sets (learn more).


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