Week 45, 2026
Coverage window 30 October – 5 November 2026.
For the interpretation of this week, see the companion essay: Weekly AI Tools That Matter to Me: Part 15, Week 45. This page is the record; the essay is the read.
This week’s record
Claude Enterprise added a security center that compares an organisation’s Claude settings with Anthropic’s recommended configuration, alongside inference hooks that send prompts and tool calls to the organisation’s data security tools for a check.
- Claude Desktop v4.23118.0 blocks the Claude API key, Console sign-in and third-party setup on computers where an organisation blocks other accounts, asks for confirmation before a plugin the organisation did not provide is added, and removes the organizationPluginsUrl setting.
- Claude Desktop v4.16336.0 deprecated fast mode for Claude Opus 4.8, to be removed on 30 November, and made an unset desktopHome read as standard from 10 November.
- ChatGPT made dots generally available to eligible Enterprise, Edu and Healthcare workspaces, with an admin preview until 18 November, when they become available by default.
- OpenAI announced it will acquire Pierre Computer Company, maker of Code Storage, to extend Codex.
- Google Antigravity 2.29.0 started rolling out voice mode and remote agents that run conversations in the cloud.
What changed this week
| Platform | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic Claude DesktopReleased (Nov 5)Admin / plugins | v4.23118.0: the organisation setting that blocks other accounts now also makes “the Claude API key and Console sign-in and the computer’s own third-party setup” unavailable; “Added a confirmation before you add, upload or turn on a plugin that your organization didn’t provide”; (breaking) organizationPluginsUrl removed, plugins it installed no longer load; claudeAiImport now brings projects, memory, scheduled tasks, saved skills and uploaded plugins, with tasks, plugins and skills arriving turned off; exports “Passwords or API keys in them are included”; memory readable but not writable in scheduled Cowork tasks outside a project; disableDesktopLocalSessions, disableWslSessions, sshConfigs (beta); updates install after ten minutes idle | Changelog |
| Anthropic Claude DesktopReleased (Nov 3)Admin / models | v4.16336.0: fast mode for Claude Opus 4.8 “Deprecated … as of October 30, 2026; it will be removed on November 30, 2026”, with no fallback; (breaking) an unset desktopHome reads as standard after 12:00 PM PT on 10 November; coworkTabEnabled, chatTabEnabled and chatAdvancedFileAnalysisEnabled deprecated in favour of desktopHome; sessionRetentionHold ignored from 17 December; Reset App Data also deletes the account’s Cowork tasks from Anthropic servers; recurring scheduled tasks retry for about three and a half hours; notification when a scheduled run cannot use a connector or cannot start | Changelog |
| Anthropic Claude EnterpriseAnnounced (Nov 5)Security / admin | Security center comparing settings for chat, Cowork and Claude Code with Anthropic’s recommended configuration; inference hooks, generally available, that “send prompts and tool calls to your data security tools for a check”; centralized management in one admin console; sign members out through the Admin API; self-managed IP allowlist; blocking personal and outside Claude accounts in Claude Desktop on managed computers; several features in beta | Claude · Release notes |
| Google AntigravityRolling out (Nov 3)Agents | App v2.29.0: voice mode powered by Gemini Live and remote agents, which run conversations in the cloud, starting to roll out; redesigned Home and Automations; Jupyter notebook viewer. v2.28.2 (Oct 29, late): partner plugins such as Figma, Linear, Notion and Stripe in the Marketplace, with plugin sign-in | Changelog |
| Google Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformGA (Oct 30)Observability | Inference request metadata logging generally available | Release notes |
| Google WorkspaceAnnounced (Oct 30 – Nov 5)Productivity / security | Edit entire presentations with Gemini in Slides (Oct 30); Gemini in Google Forms insights (Nov 5); client-side encryption applied automatically to confidential Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive files, in beta (Nov 5) | Workspace Updates |
| OpenAI ChatGPT EnterpriseRolling out (Nov 4) · Limited (Oct 30)Agents / admin | Dots generally available to eligible Enterprise, Edu and Healthcare workspaces, “with an admin preview until November 18, 2026”, when they become available by default; admins can control which members use dots, view personal dots and their connections, pause or resume them; not available with UAE data or inference residency; EU and US inference residency. GPT-6 Rosalind Research to approved life sciences customers (Oct 30) | Enterprise and Edu release notes |
| OpenAIAnnounced (Nov 3 – 5)M&A / models | To acquire Pierre Computer Company, maker of Code Storage and the Trees and Diffs libraries used in the Codex app (Nov 4); Images 2.6 (Nov 4); GPT-6 Cyber (Nov 5); Jill Hazelbaker named chief corporate affairs officer (Nov 3) | Pierre · OpenAI news |
Late captures in this edition. Google Antigravity v2.28.2 (29 October) added partner plugins to the Marketplace with plugin sign-in, after the previous edition was compiled.
No changes this week (scanned, nothing net-new)
- Anthropic newsroom: newest item 28 October.
- ChatGPT consumer and Business release notes: account switching on mobile (30 October), more Work and Codex usage on Pro and Business Premium (29 October), GPT-6 Rosalind Research for approved Business customers (30 October), Images 2.6 (4 November, recorded above).
- Gemini Enterprise: newest release note 30 October, a visual refresh of Gemini Notebook Enterprise.
- Gemini apps: release notes newest 13 October as read.
- Microsoft 365 Copilot (relevant-only): release notes of 4 November (updates 28 October to 3 November) read in part, starting with Excel change navigation; no agentic-work or MarTech item identified in what was read.
- Industry and newsletter tier (MarTech.org AI, chiefmartec, Marketing AI Institute, Every, Latent Space, Ben’s Bites, Google Cloud press corner, Gmail label Tech & AI): scanned for leads; nothing traced to a new primary-source item beyond those above.
Scanned but unresolved, reported as source states rather than vendor silence:
- agentskills.io: the site redirects (308); new address not yet followed.
Watching next (Week 46)
- Unified Claude on for all organisations and desktopHome default, 10 November.
- Anthropic Usage Policy update, 12 November.
- ChatGPT dots available by default in Enterprise workspaces, 18 November.
- Claude Desktop client-certificate fallback ends 17 November; Opus 4.8 fast mode removed 30 November.
How this is compiled. Each edition is assembled from official release notes, changelogs and newsrooms. An AI assistant does the first-pass scan, reading release notes in a browser or through vendor-published Markdown and feed routes, and I review and edit before publishing. Items are checked against the primary source; anything I could not confirm is marked inline. Dates and status reflect what was published as of the current-as-of date and can change.
Corrections and method notes. Spot an error? Tell me and I will fix it in the next edition. Cross-note: Optimove’s per-role AI Permissions for its MCP server and agent, and MoEngage’s OAuth 2.0 and AWS STS API key options, are recorded in MarTech Watch, Week 45.
AI Watch is compiled and edited by Andrea Veggiani, Head of Cross Channel Marketing / Martech Solution Architect at BitBang.