Google is testing "The fastest path from prompt to production with Gemini" on AI Studio.

A new homepage UI to select from various options like Chat, Build and API Key creation.

Model selector on the Build section will get a new Thinking effort selection, too.

Slack launches AI-powered Slackbot for Business+ orgs

Slack has released a rebuilt Slackbot as an AI-driven personal assistant for Business+ and Enterprise+ users, offering context-aware support across functions while maintaining strict data access controls and enterprise-grade security standards.

🗞 #slack

Perplexity partners with BlueMatrix data provider to bring equity research to Perplexity Enterprise.

"AI-assisted discovery to investors and researchers, alongside Perplexity’s suite of accuracy-driven research tools"

OpenAI released GPT-5.2-Codex model on the Responses API, and it is now available on OpenAI's Platform.

Google is working on new interactive steps for its Opal agent builder, which will allow builders to choose between Chat and Interactive UI options.

This will allow Opal and Gemini agents to request additional context from users when needed.

Perplexity is testing a new compact attachment UI for Comet that combines mode selectors, attachment options, and connectors into a single selector.

Google is working on integrating Agentflow into Gemini for Business.

Agentflow is an automation builder in Google Workspace that allows you to build agentic pipelines and it seems like they will become more integrated into Gemini Agent builder in the future.

Consolidation 👀

Google released a set of TranslateGemma models in 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter sizes, with support for 55 languages and a lower error rate.

Black Forest Labs released FLUX.2 [klein] models in 4B and 9B sizes.

- Klein 4B under Apache 2.0
- Klein 9B as open weights
- Very fast 👀
- Available on BFL Playground for testing