Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live Avatar in Gemini Enterprise, enabling near-real-time video personas that lip-sync and adapt expressions in 97 languages while handling visual and audio input and running background tool calls during conversations.
Anthropic launches the Claude Marketplace, bringing more than 2,000 AI connectors, plugins and partner offerings—including Atlassian, Google, Microsoft, Notion and Salesforce—into one hub where customers can use committed Anthropic spending on software from CrowdStrike, Cursor, Harvey, Snowflake and others.
OpenAI brings ChatGPT Voice to ChatGPT Work and Codex on web and mobile, letting Pro and Plus users create documents, decks, spreadsheets and websites by voice, as Meta’s Muse agent reportedly tops 500,000 users in its first week.
Google rolls out Gemini Connected Apps, enabling users to manage work projects, create assets and plan workouts inside Gemini through integrations including Airtable, Adobe, Peloton, Webflow and Zoho.
ElevenLabs launches the HIPAA-eligible Scribe v2 Medical speech-to-text model on ElevenAPI, offering enterprise customers Zero Retention Mode and posting a 4.9% word error rate across English, French, and German on Corti’s MedDictate benchmark.
Aloha launches AlohaJet, an agent-first enterprise browser that it says uses LLMdex to cut AI token consumption by 54%, complete web tasks 2.2 times faster, and achieve an 88% success rate versus 51% for Chrome-based agents.
Australian AI startup Heidi raises $340 million at a $900 million valuation, including a $100 million Series C led by Blackbird Ventures, to expand software that automates doctors’ clinical notes and administrative work.
Gartner urges leaders to sequence AI initiatives from prioritized pilots to production-scale ModelOps, arguing that success depends less on technology than on strategy, talent, governance, engineering and data.
Salesforce is pursuing a headless AI strategy that lets customers connect any model to CRM data securely, while introducing Koa, a CRM reasoning model built on NVIDIA Nemotron, and a deployment harness for enterprise use.
Doppel launches its generally available agentic email-security platform, integrating with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace in minutes to detect social-engineering campaigns and disrupt their domains, fake profiles and impersonation kits without changing MX records or mail flow.