Data and AI releases

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Data and AI releases in August 2026

1,674 releases from 127 companies in August 2026

Monday, August 31, 202677 releases

Google Cloud6 products

Gemini 3.1 Flash Image and Gemini 3 Pro Image updates

This release introduces feature updates and expanded endpoint availability for Gemini 3.1 Flash Image and Gemini 3 Pro Image: Multi-region endpoint support : Gemini 3.1 Flash Image ( gemini-3.1-flash-image ) is now available on US ( us ) and EU ( eu ) multi-region endpoints for model availability, ML processing, Provisioned Throughput, and PayGo Standard.

Administration

- Added support for customizing the main navigation in Omni. Skills can now be enabled and disabled at the organization level . Omni now supports Canada Central, UAE North, and Southeast Asia cloud regions for Azure deployments.

Selected GitHub Copilot models deprecated

As of today, September 1, 2026, we have deprecated the following models across most GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions). Note that Claude Sonnet 4.6 is still available to individual GitHub Copilot subscribers on annual plans.

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Pipeline events system table is in Beta

The pipeline_events system table is in Beta . This table records Lakeflow pipelines event log entries for pipelines in your account, capturing lifecycle transitions, flow progress, data quality metrics, errors, and other operational data across all pipelines and workspaces in a region.

Second generation Openflow (Preview)

Second generation (gen 2) Openflow is now in public preview. Gen 2 makes Openflow deployments, runtimes, and connectors first-class Snowflake SQL objects with standard RBAC, SQL lifecycle management, and versioned connector configuration. Supported connectors at public preview: PostgreSQL CDC, MySQL/MariaDB CDC. Gen 2 Openflow is available on AWS and Azure.

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Snowflake-provided tags (Public Preview)

With this preview release, Snowflake-provided tags are available in every account. These out of the box tags in the SNOWFLAKE.TAGS schema give you a consistent vocabulary for common governance use cases, including cost center, certification status, sensitivity, environment, and project, without creating and maintaining equivalent tags in each account.

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Training New Serverless Training models: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731, Qwen 3.8 27B, and Muse Glimmer 30B The...

Training New Serverless Training models: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731, Qwen 3.8 27B, and Muse Glimmer 30B The following models are now available for LoRA workloads on the shared Serverless Training pool: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 with up to 262K context Qwen 3.8 27B with up to 128K context Muse Glimmer 30B with up to 128K context See the Serverless Training guide...

Week 36

Automatic data retention telli now supports automatic data retention. If data retention is included in your plan, set how long contacts and call data are kept under Settings > Organization . Choose from 1 to 730 days for contacts, all call data, recordings, or transcripts. telli applies the rules daily and asks for confirmation before saving.

August 24–30, 2026

- Added: You can now request plain HTTP access to the Object Storage S3 API for selected buckets and use http:// instead of https:// in the S3 API endpoint. Choose between the Region-local mode (access only from Nebius AI Cloud VMs in the bucket's region) and the All mode (access from any source).

Snyk Projects now stay in sync with your repository content

The "What" Repo Content Sync keeps your Snyk Projects aligned with what your repositories actually contain. When a change is merged to a branch Snyk monitors, Snyk creates and begins monitoring Projects for newly added manifest, Dockerfile, and configuration files, and deactivates the Projects whose files were removed.

Wider speed range for Flux TTS

Flux TTS speed now runs from 0.5 to 1.5 in 0.05 increments, up from 0.85 – 1.15 . The default stays 1.0 , and every previously accepted value still works. The wider range applies everywhere speed is accepted on Flux TTS: the /v2/speak streaming WebSocket (at connection and mid-session with Configure ), the /v2/speak batch REST endpoint, and...

LanceDB v0.38.0

🛠 Breaking Changes fix: make table existence manifest-authoritative refactor(python): require pydantic v2 fix(nodejs)!: key parsed embedding configs by vector column feat!: rename branch merge to cherry_pick feat(nodejs): materialized view bindings fix: package ordinary @udf bodies and emit only the V1 type grammar fix(node): preserve embedding...

Docling 2.124.0

Feature cli: Add latex output format ( #4101 ) ( c4b0fc7 ) Add terminal task callback event ( #4095 ) ( d2283ad ) Fix service_client: Handle Retry-After HTTP-date with unknown timezone ( #3786 ) ( 3bba8da ) Silence transformers generation-config deprecation warning and add max_new_tokens CLI overrides ( #4115 ) ( 01fc722 ) Drop the UTF-8 BOM when decoding...

Sunday, August 30, 20263 releases

Saturday, August 29, 20267 releases

Edit Image Quality Update

Hey everyone, we've updated our V8.2 edit model for better image quality. If you've had any issues in the last 24 hours give it a new shot and keep giving us feedback. Thanks! More updates soon.

Recommended migrations

- MiniMax M2.7 , migrate to MiniMax M3 GPT OSS 20B , migrate to GPT OSS 120B or Qwen3 8B for lower-latency workloads Kimi K2.6 Turbo / Fast , migrate to Kimi K2.6 (standard mode) Kimi K2.7 Code Fast , migrate to Kimi K2.7 Code (standard mode) DeepSeek V4 Pro , migrate to DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813)

Friday, August 28, 202642 releases

CLI and SDK rollup: pulumi new, pulumi do, and more

We shipped a bunch of new features and improvements in the Pulumi CLI and SDK this month. A few highlights: A redesigned interactive pulumi new that asks for a cloud provider and language instead of listing every template, then confirms your project, stack, and config defaults in a single step ( v3.258 , v3.259 ) Opt-in encryption of stored credentials with...

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Dynamic Highlights (research preview)

Dynamic Highlights (research preview) Dynamic Highlights selects excerpts across the complete result set instead of treating each page independently. It gives more of the shared context budget to useful sources and gives less context to sources that only repeat information already returned.

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What's new in Sigma

AI Allow Assistant to search all sources (Beta) An admin can configure the default behavior of Sigma Assistant to use any data sources available to users or limit Assistant to only specific configured data sources. Users can always manually choose a source for Assistant to use from the sources that they have access to.

Unity Catalog Skills (Beta)

You can now publish, govern, and share agent skills with Unity Catalog. A skill is a first-class Unity Catalog securable ( catalog.schema.skill ) that follows the SKILL.md specification , so you register it once and control who can discover, use, and update it with the same permissions, tags, and audit that protect your tables.

Monitor and cap external provider costs

Unity Gateway can now track and cap spend on external model providers, such as Amazon Bedrock and Azure AI Foundry, not just Databricks-provided models. If your organization already has capacity commitments directly with a provider, Unity Gateway becomes the single point to track that usage and enforce spend limits across teams and use cases.

Week 35

Annotate call transcripts You can now annotate a specific moment while reviewing a call transcript in Conversations . Hover an agent, contact, or tool turn to report an issue inline, then adjust the highlighted audio range and describe what went wrong.

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