OpenAI/ChatGPT

Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections

Update·Aug 18, 2026·Verified

ChatGPT for Teens helps teens learn, think critically, and use AI with confidence, with stronger built-in protections, healthy-use features, and additional controls for parents.

Also shipped Aug 18, 2026OpenAI in August 2026 →

SnowflakeSnowflake Horizon Catalog

Access externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables through Snowflake Horizon Catalog (Preview)

You can now use the Horizon Iceberg REST Catalog (IRC) API to access externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables in a catalog-linked database from external engines such as Apache Spark™, Trino, DuckDB, or PyIceberg.

PreviewAug 18

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SnowflakeSnowflake Cortex AI

Power BI ingestion for Semantic View Autopilot (General availability)

Power BI ingestion for Semantic View Autopilot is now generally available. You can upload a .pbit or .pbix file to Semantic View Autopilot and have a semantic view created automatically from your existing data model, preserving the DAX measures, table relationships, and column descriptions you’ve already built in Power BI and making them available to Cortex...

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Snowflake

User skills in Snowflake CoWork (Preview)

User skills are now available in public preview in Snowflake CoWork. Business users can create reusable workflows conversationally, from the UI ( + menu > Skills > Create new ), or by uploading a skill folder on Capabilities > Skills , then run them explicitly with / or from the Skills menus, or implicitly when a conversation matches the skill.

PreviewAug 18

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Google CloudGemini Enterprise Agent Platform

CodeMender updates (v0.4.0): Model support

This release introduces updates to CodeMender: Gemini 3 Flash removal : Gemini 3 Flash ( gemini-3-flash-preview ) is no longer supported as a model backend for CodeMender. CodeMender supports Gemini 3.5 Flash (default) and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. For more information, see Specifying the model .

PreviewAug 18

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Google CloudGemini Enterprise

Gemini Enterprise: Google Sites federated connector (GA)

The Google Sites federated connector is generally available (GA) on Gemini Enterprise. You can use the Gemini Enterprise app assistant to search across internal company websites, team sites, intranets, project hubs, and informational pages hosted on Google Sites, and get answers grounded in that content without needing to ingest the data.

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Google CloudGemini Enterprise

Gemini Enterprise: Gemini 3.6 Flash available in US and EU multi-regions

Gemini 3.6 Flash is generally available in the us and eu multi-regions, and an allowlist is no longer required to use Gemini 3.6 Flash in the us multi-region. To make Gemini 3.6 Flash available to users in the Gemini Enterprise app, administrators must turn on the Gemini 3.6 Flash feature toggle in the Google Cloud console.

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