I found clear, analyst-relevant in-window updates for Power BI, Metabase, and Sigma between July 20, 2026 and August 3, 2026. For the other platforms, I either found no qualifying AI/BI changes in that window or the public vendor source did not provide a verifiable day-level date that met the 14-day cutoff. (learn.microsoft.com)

Looker

- No qualifying feature updates found in the last 14 days. The nearest public Looker entries I found were a July 21, 2026 deprecation notice for preview-era Looker reports and earlier feature notes from July 17, 2026 and July 9, 2026, which fall outside your requested window or are not feature additions. (docs.cloud.google.com)

Power BI

- July 23, 2026: Model Options became available directly in Power BI Service web modeling, giving browser-based control over relationship detection, time intelligence, locale, DirectQuery behavior, and connection limits. (learn.microsoft.com)

- July 23, 2026: The semantic model settings pane became the default experience in preview, so users can adjust refresh, credentials, and related model settings without leaving the workspace page. (learn.microsoft.com)

- July 23, 2026: TMDL view on the web was added, allowing code-level editing of semantic model metadata in the browser instead of requiring Desktop downloads. (learn.microsoft.com)

- July 23, 2026: Reporting got broader modern visual defaults, including report-wide theme/default controls from the format pane. (learn.microsoft.com)

- July 23, 2026: SharePoint embedding was simplified with a workspace picker and an Embed a single visual option. (learn.microsoft.com)

Tableau

- No qualifying updates included under the strict 14-day rule. Tableau’s public archive labels the release as “Tableau July 2026” / “Released 7/2026”, and the feature pages describe items such as Tableau MCP integrations, Semantic Search, and live dashboard query, but the sources I found do not provide a day-level release date I can verify against July 20-August 3, 2026, so I excluded them. (tableau.com)

Metabase

- July 21, 2026: Treemap charts were added as a native visualization type. (metabase.com)

- July 21, 2026: Dashboard subscriptions can now include a PDF attachment of the dashboard. (metabase.com)

- July 21, 2026: Metabot added support for OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, and Microsoft Azure as model providers, alongside Anthropic. (metabase.com)

- July 21, 2026: Admins can now invite users directly from a dashboard or question via the Share menu, shortening the sharing flow. (metabase.com)

- July 21, 2...

In the July 6–20, 2026 window, I found qualifying analyst-facing updates for Looker, Power BI, and Sigma. For Tableau, Metabase, Qlik, Zenlytics/Zenlytic, Pyramid Analytics, and GoodData, I did not find qualifying updates in the requested window from the official sources reviewed. (docs.cloud.google.com)

Looker

- July 17, 2026: For self-service Explores, Looker added Advanced connection governance for data uploads. Admins can enable more than one upload connection, test each connection from the Self-service Explores admin page, and users can choose from approved connections they can access when uploading data to create a self-service Explore. This is a workflow change for analyst-managed uploaded datasets. (docs.cloud.google.com)

Power BI

- July 8, 2026: Org app audiences are now supported in the Power BI mobile apps. On phone or tablet, users see app content based on their assigned audience and can switch audiences if they belong to more than one. This is mainly a mobile distribution/navigation update rather than an AI feature. (learn.microsoft.com)

Tableau

- No qualifying updates found in July 6–20, 2026. The latest analyst-relevant Tableau note I found was for Tableau Pulse on July 2, 2026, which is outside the requested window. (help.tableau.com)

Metabase

- No qualifying updates found in July 6–20, 2026. The latest listed major Metabase release I found was Metabase 62 (June 2026), outside the window. (metabase.com)

Sigma

- July 10, 2026: Sigma agents can now have a custom first message in beta. Teams can set a fixed opening message or prompt-generated greeting for the agent experience. (help.sigmacomputing.com)

- July 10, 2026: Sigma added beta support for Databricks Unity Catalog metric views in workbooks and data models. Users can browse these metric views, use them as sources for tables/pivots/charts, and query them with custom SQL. This is a meaningful semantic-model integration rather than a cosmetic update. (help.sigmacomputing.com)

- July 10, 2026: Convert workbooks to reports entered beta. Sigma says this lets teams turn an existing workbook into a report to get pixel-level formatting and more reliable exports without rebuilding it manually; the concrete product behavior is the workbook-to-report conversion plus report-oriented export formatting. (help.sigmacomputing.com)

- July 10, 2026: Find in table became generally available, making it easier to locate values inside tables and input tables. (help.sigmacomputing.com)

Qlik

- No qualifying updates found in July 6–20, 2026. In the official Qlik Cloud changelog results I reviewed, the latest analyst-facing AI/BI items surfaced were dated June 16, 2026 and June 2, 2026, so they fall outside the requested window. (help.qlik.com)

Zenlytics

- No q...

In the last 14 days, I found qualifying analyst-facing updates for Looker, Tableau, and Sigma. For Power BI, Metabase, Qlik, Zenlytics, Pyramid Analytics, and GoodData, I did not find qualifying public updates dated June 22, 2026 through July 6, 2026 in the vendor sources surfaced below. (docs.cloud.google.com)

Looker

- June 29, 2026: Alert notifications can now include Gemini-powered key driver analysis, which adds an AI-generated explanation of the change that triggered the alert and possible reasons behind it. This is a concrete workflow change for alert consumers, though the usefulness of the explanation will depend on model quality. (docs.cloud.google.com)

- June 22, 2026 rollout / added June 23: Self-service Explores can now be created by uploading data from a BigQuery table, and Google Sheets import is now controlled by a separate admin toggle instead of a single general data-upload switch. This is a meaningful self-service modeling change. (docs.cloud.google.com)

- June 22, 2026 rollout: Dashboard editors can enable Preserve desktop layout so dashboards keep their desktop arrangement on smaller screens, with zoom controls and a desktop/mobile view switch. (docs.cloud.google.com)

- June 22, 2026 rollout: Filters as tiles and tile-level filter context entered preview, letting editors place dashboard filters directly on the canvas and letting viewers inspect which filters affect a specific tile. (docs.cloud.google.com)

- June 22, 2026 rollout: The Visualization Assistant became available in the new Explore experience, and dashboard agents published to Gemini Enterprise now support visualizations in conversations. (docs.cloud.google.com)

- June 22, 2026 rollout: Looker added a new KPI (Single Value) visualization option with secondary mini-charts and more comparison/styling controls. (docs.cloud.google.com)

Power BI

- No qualifying public Power BI update surfaced in the June 22, 2026 to July 6, 2026 window. The latest official “What’s new” page I found was the June 2026 update, published June 11, 2026, which is outside the requested window. (learn.microsoft.com)

Tableau

- July 2, 2026: Tableau Agent in Pulse was upgraded to GPT-5.2. The hard fact is the model change; vendor claims about better handling of complex questions should be treated as vendor assertions unless validated in your environment. (help.tableau.com)

- July 2026 release: Point-in-Time Metrics in Tableau Pulse lets analysts define a metric as a snapshot value at period end, instead of aggregating across the full period. That is directly relevant for inventory, headcount, and similar metrics. (tableau.com)

- July 2026 release: Targeted deployment for Tableau Agent in Pulse lets admins enable the feature for a single Tableau user group instead of site-wide, which is relevant for phased ro...

Here is a platform-by-platform scan of analyst-facing AI and BI updates published between June 8 and June 22, 2026. I found qualifying items for Looker, Power BI, Metabase, Sigma, and Zenlytic; the other platforms did not show clearly qualifying updates in the official materials I reviewed.

Looker

- June 16, 2026: Google introduced a new Looker Explore experience with AI-assisted Quick Start. If a modeler has not defined starter questions, Looker can generate an initial query automatically with Gemini. (cloud.google.com)

- June 16, 2026: The same Explore update adds insight and expression assistants and a streamlined Explore interface. Google also positioned Merge Queries as part of this Explore release; that workflow impact is vendor-described in the blog rather than detailed in release-note form. (cloud.google.com)

Power BI

- June 9, 2026: Microsoft’s June feature summary lists Copilot in Web Modeling (Preview), described as an AI assistant in the Power BI service that helps authors analyze and improve semantic models with natural language. (community.fabric.microsoft.com)

- June 9, 2026: The same release also lists AI-powered Power BI reporting with agent skills (Preview) and data answering in Fabric Skills, Cowork, and Microsoft 365 Chat (Frontier), extending Power BI data into broader Copilot-style chat workflows. (community.fabric.microsoft.com)

- June 9, 2026: Analyst-facing reporting changes in the June summary include a date picker for slicers (Preview) and auto-expand options for matrix row and column headers (GA). (community.fabric.microsoft.com)

Tableau

- No qualifying AI/BI feature updates were visible in the official Tableau materials I reviewed for June 8-22. Tableau Desktop 2026.2 was released on June 9, but its public page shows resolved issues, not new analyst-facing features; Tableau’s public new-features page is still on the March 2026 release, and the latest visible Tableau Pulse additions were dated April 14, 2026. (tableau.com)

Metabase

- June 16, 2026: Metabase 62 adds a custom-visualization plugin SDK so teams can build and upload React-based chart types for questions, dashboards, and documents. Metabase notes these custom charts are not yet supported in embeds, subscriptions, or alerts. (metabase.com)

- June 16, 2026: Metabase’s MCP server now returns interactive charts inside AI clients such as Claude, Cursor, and VS Code, and can also run SQL plus create/update questions and dashboards from the AI client. (metabase.com)

- June 16, 2026: Embedded analytics gets programmatic filter control, letting an application update filters in embedded questions or dashboards without reloading the p...

I checked official release notes, changelogs, and vendor update pages for the May 25, 2026 to June 8, 2026 window. Only a few platforms had analyst-facing AI/BI items that clearly fit the filter; the rest had no qualifying in-window updates I could verify.

Looker

- No qualifying AI/BI feature updates found in the May 25–June 8 window. In the official materials I could verify, the searchable Looker release notes were last updated on January 2, 2026 and the latest listed entries were from late 2025, not this window. (docs.cloud.google.com)

Power BI

- May 2026 update *(Microsoft Learn page last updated 2026-05-30)*: Copilot gained summary shortcuts at both the report level and the visual level, so users can generate a report-wide summary or a visual-specific summary directly from the UI. (learn.microsoft.com)

- May 2026 update: The Copilot narrative visual now supports the app-owns-data embedding scenario in customer applications, still marked preview. (learn.microsoft.com)

- May 2026 update: Explore now supports perspectives for large semantic models, matrix auto-expand behavior was improved, and users can show or hide totals on table and matrix visuals from the Explore toolbar. (learn.microsoft.com)

- May 2026 update: Reporting/modeling changes that matter to analysts included visual calculations and custom totals GA, fixed/default column widths for table and matrix GA, subscriptions for reports inside org apps (Preview), and faster entry into web modeling for semantic model authors. (learn.microsoft.com)

- May 2026 update: Power BI Desktop also introduced a redesigned Get Data experience in preview, with a unified source-discovery flow. (learn.microsoft.com)

Tableau

- No qualifying AI/BI feature updates found in the May 25–June 8 window. The Tableau Cloud notes published on May 26, 2026 were defect-focused, and the Tableau Pulse feature notes I could verify showed the latest additions in April 2026, outside the window. (tableau.com)

Metabase

- No qualifying updates found in the last 14 days. The latest relevant Metabase product release I could verify was Metabase 61, dated May 20, 2026, which is outside the requested window. That release added AI governance controls, AI usage analytics, dashboards-as-code, and Metrics Explorer enhancements, but it does not qualify here because of the date. (metabase.com)

Sigma

- 2026-05-29: Custom page sidebar reached GA, letting teams repeat filters or navigation elements across multiple workbook pages from one configuration. (help.sigmacomputing.com)

- 2026-05-29: Hierarchy columns reached GA in workbooks. (help.sigmacomputing.com)

- 2026-05-29: Sigma added a ClickHouse connector in beta. (help.sigmacomputing.com)

- 2026-05-29: Sigma also added Amazon Bedrock as an AI provider in beta. This is AI-related, but it is primarily a provider choice for existing Sigma AI features rather than a new end-user analyst workflow. ([help.sigmacomput...

I found qualifying analyst-facing updates for most of the requested platforms in the last 14 days (May 11–25, 2026). The activity was concentrated in AI-assisted analysis/building, dashboard/report authoring, and governed sharing or embedding workflows. (docs.cloud.google.com)

Looker

- May 7, 2026: In the Looker 26.8 release notes, Conversational Analytics Advanced Analytics (formerly Code Interpreter) moved to general availability. Looker also made default row/column limits for dashboard tile downloads generally available, so dashboard editors can set defaults and viewers can edit them at download time. (docs.cloud.google.com)

- May 7, 2026: Looker added support for querying Explores in Development Mode from Conversational Analytics. (docs.cloud.google.com)

- May 7, 2026: Looker listed two preview agent features in 26.8: publishing Conversational Analytics Explore data agents to Gemini Enterprise, and using Conversational Analytics data agents on dashboards. However, the release note also says these items were “not yet available” when updated on May 14, so I would treat them as announced but not broadly shipped yet. (docs.cloud.google.com)

Power BI

- May 2026 update: Power BI added Copilot summary shortcuts on the report ribbon and the visual header, generating report-level or visual-level summaries in the Copilot pane. (learn.microsoft.com)

- May 2026 update: The Copilot narrative visual now supports app-owns-data embedding in preview, extending Copilot-generated narrative output to customer-facing embedded scenarios where end users do not sign in. (learn.microsoft.com)

- May 2026 update: Explore improvements added perspectives for large data models, matrix auto-expand behavior, and toolbar controls to show or hide totals in table and matrix visuals. (learn.microsoft.com)

- May 2026 update: On the BI side, visual calculations and custom totals reached general availability, and report authors also got Set as landing page plus fixed/default column widths for table and matrix visuals. (learn.microsoft.com)

Tableau

- No qualifying Tableau update surfaced in the official release materials I checked for May 11–25, 2026. The latest Tableau Desktop releases I found on the official downloads page are 2026.1.1 and 2025.3.5, both released April 21, 2026, which is outside the requested window. (tableau.com)

Metabase

- May 20, 2026 (Metabase 61): Metabase added AI access controls by feature and by user group for both internal and embedded analytics. (metabase.com)

- May 20, 2026: Metabase added token/message limits at the instance, user-group, and embedded-customer level, plus reset schedules. ([metabase.com](https://www.metabase.com/releases/m...

Within the Apr 27–May 11, 2026 window, I found confirmed analyst-facing BI/AI feature updates for Looker and Sigma. For the other platforms, the latest public feature notes I could verify were outside the window or not precisely dateable into it. (cloud.google.com)

Looker

- May 7, 2026: In the announced Looker 26.8 update, Conversational Analytics Advanced Analytics moved to general availability. Rollout was scheduled to start May 10, 2026 for Looker (original) and May 11, 2026 for Looker (Google Cloud core). (cloud.google.com)

- May 7, 2026: Looker added a preview for Conversational Analytics data agents on user-defined dashboards. (cloud.google.com)

- May 7, 2026: Looker added a preview to publish Conversational Analytics data agents to Gemini Enterprise. (cloud.google.com)

- May 7, 2026: Dashboard download controls became more configurable: editors can set default row and column limits for tile downloads, and viewers can adjust those values when downloading. (cloud.google.com)

- May 7, 2026: Conversational Analytics gained support for querying Looker Explores in Development Mode. (cloud.google.com)

Power BI

- No qualifying updates in the last 14 days that I could verify. The latest public feature summary I found was the April 22, 2026 update, which is outside the requested window. (europe.powerbi.microsoft.com)

Tableau

- No qualifying update I could confirm in the last 14 days. Tableau’s public materials show an April 2026 release, but the feature page does not expose a precise release date; the dated Tableau blog post I found that references that release is April 25, 2026, just outside the window. (tableau.com)

Metabase

- No qualifying updates in the last 14 days that I could verify. The latest public feature release I found was Metabase 60 on April 16, 2026, outside the window. (metabase.com)

Sigma

- May 1, 2026: Sigma updated global search so that, when an organization has configured an AI provider, search uses semantic search. This is the only clearly AI-facing item in the window. (community.sigmacomputing.com)

- May 1, 2026: Several workbook-building elements reached GA: repeated container, single row container, and value list. These are layout/reporting features for record-based views and dynamic detail panes. (community.sigmacomputing.com)

- May 1, 2026: Sigma added dynamic chart axis ranges driven by formulas or controls, autofit columns for tables, and more control over stacked bar chart data labels. (community.sigmac

In the last 14 days, I found clear qualifying BI/AI feature updates for Power BI, Sigma, and Tableau. For the other platforms, the latest public release material I found was either outside the Apr 13–27, 2026 window or limited to minor fixes that I excluded. (powerbi.microsoft.com)

Looker

- No qualifying updates found in the last 14 days. In Google’s public Looker release notes, the surfaced entries I found were older, with no Apr 13–27, 2026 analyst-facing feature items visible. (docs.cloud.google.com)

Power BI

- Apr 22, 2026: In-report Copilot on Power BI mobile now supports open-ended follow-up chat against the current report, can generate AI-created visuals, includes citations back to report visuals, and adds voice dictation on iPhone/iPad. (powerbi.microsoft.com)

- Apr 22, 2026: The modern visual defaults preview adds a base-theme switcher for updating or reverting report themes, plus preset canvas sizes for common aspect ratios. (powerbi.microsoft.com)

- Apr 22, 2026: Card, button slicer, and list slicer visuals now support a fixed-size layout mode, so authors can specify exact pixel dimensions instead of auto-fitting items. (powerbi.microsoft.com)

- Apr 22, 2026: The April modeling preview adds Direct Lake calculated columns/tables and user-context-aware calculated columns for scenarios like data translations. Microsoft says Direct Lake service rollout is still deploying over the next few weeks, so availability may lag the announcement. (powerbi.microsoft.com)

Tableau

- Date note: Tableau’s public materials identify this as the April 2026 release, and Tableau was still promoting that release on Apr 25, 2026; the exact ship date is not shown on the main feature page, so inclusion in the 14-day window is a best-effort inference from Tableau’s own release surfacing. (tableau.com)

- April 2026 release: Tableau Next MCP is generally available, allowing MCP-compatible AI apps to query Tableau data and metadata through Tableau’s analytics engine. (tableau.com)

- April 2026 release: Inspector in Slack is in beta, sending natural-language metric-threshold alerts into Slack DMs and allowing follow-up questions from there. (tableau.com)

- April 2026 release: Tableau added agent-governance controls in Concierge: semantic-model scoping and page-filter visibility are GA, while Q&A Calibration is beta for testing and tuning agent responses. (tableau.com)

- April 2026 release: The Tableau App for Microsoft 365 is GA for Tableau Cloud and Server, letting users embed dashboard/Pulse snapshots in Word and PowerPoint and refresh them later. Tableau’s March 16 blog described Word/PowerPoint support as public preview, so GA status appears to be new in the April release. (

Only a few vendors published clearly in-window AI/BI feature updates between March 30 and April 13, 2026. The strongest qualifying items came from GoodData, Tableau, and Qlik; the other platforms did not show public, in-window updates that met your filters. (gooddata.com)

Looker

- No qualifying updates in the last 14 days. The newest relevant official Looker release-note entries I found are dated March 25, 2026 and earlier, which is outside the requested window. (docs.cloud.google.com)

Power BI

- No qualifying updates in the last 14 days. The main monthly Power BI feature summary for the current cycle was published March 15, 2026, and the collaboration/integration page also lists these as March 2026 features rather than April updates. (powerbi.microsoft.com)

Tableau

- April 2026 release: Tableau Next MCP is marked generally available. Tableau says it lets AI agents query Tableau’s analytics engine directly; the hard product fact is that Tableau is exposing MCP-based access in Tableau Next. (tableau.com)

- April 2026 release: Inspector in Slack is in beta. It sends proactive natural-language alerts in Slack DMs after a metric threshold breach and supports follow-up questions. (tableau.com)

- April 2026 release: Concierge gained tighter control over AI answers: semantic model scope/allowlisting and page-filter visibility are GA, while Q&A Calibration is beta. (tableau.com)

- April 2026 release: The Tableau App for Microsoft 365 is GA for Tableau Cloud and Server, adding dashboard and Pulse embedding into Word and PowerPoint with one-click refresh. (tableau.com)

- April 2026 release: Tableau added BI workflow improvements for Pulse in dashboards: Pulse metrics can now appear in dashboard image exports and subscriptions, and embedded Pulse metrics can respond to dashboard filters. (tableau.com)

Metabase

- No qualifying updates in the last 14 days. The latest major release I found is Metabase 59, published March 5, 2026, which is outside the window. (metabase.com)

Sigma

- No qualifying updates in the last 14 days. The newest public Sigma “What’s New” entries I found are March 20, 2026 and March 9, 2026, both outside the window. (community.sigmacomputing.com)

Qlik

- April 7, 2026 (technical preview for May 2026, Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows): Qlik added several analyst-facing BI improvements, including inline images in text objects, an image plugin for line charts, scatter-plot plugin support, drag-and-drop column reordering in straight tables, measure-based header coloring, and a new pivot-table exploration menu. This is a technical preview, not a GA cloud release. (

I found one clear in-window product update set that fits your filter: Power BI’s March 18, 2026 feature update. For the other platforms, I did not find qualifying analyst-facing AI/BI feature releases published between March 16 and March 30, 2026, or the public items I found were outside the window or were support/maintenance notes rather than feature updates. (powerbi.microsoft.com)
Looker
- No qualifying updates found in the last 14 days. The public Looker release notes surfaced by Google were last updated January 2, 2026, and the visible feature entries were older than this window. (docs.cloud.google.com)
Power BI
- March 18, 2026: Microsoft published the Power BI March 2026 Feature Summary. (powerbi.microsoft.com)
- AI: The Copilot pane in Reports and Apps got a UI refresh to match the standalone Copilot experience; Microsoft says functionality is unchanged. This is a UX change, not a new analytic capability. (powerbi.microsoft.com)
- AI: The Copilot feedback dialog now lets users attach diagnostics to feedback submissions, which may help support and product triage. (powerbi.microsoft.com)
- AI/reporting: The AI Narrative visual can now auto-refresh when slicer selections change, removing the need to manually refresh the narrative after each filter change. (powerbi.microsoft.com)
- Reporting/workflows: Translytical task flows reached general availability, allowing report users to update records, add data, or trigger workflows from inside reports. Supported writeback targets called out by Microsoft include Fabric SQL databases, warehouses, and lakehouses for files. (powerbi.microsoft.com)
- Reporting/visual design: Modern visual defaults and theme customization improvements entered preview, adding a new default visual style, updated base theme behavior, and reusable structural colors/page sizing in themes. (powerbi.microsoft.com)
- Reporting/tables: Custom totals entered preview, letting authors override a table or matrix total’s aggregation at the visual level without changing the underlying DAX measure. (powerbi.microsoft.com)
- Visualizations: Series label leader lines were added for line charts and related visuals to improve label readability in dense charts. (powerbi.microsoft.com)
- Reporting/filters: Input slicer now supports conditional formatting for text, icons, borders, backgrounds, and accent bars. (powerbi.microsoft.com)
- Modeling: Direct Lake in OneLake reached general availability