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What's new in Asana | August 2026

Welcome to the August edition of What’s new in Asana, our monthly product update. Key moments: AI Studio instruction suggestions: Improve automation instructions in AI Studio with tips from Asana AI to make your instructions clearer. And remember to follow us on our other social media channels: LinkedIn - / asana Instagram - / asana.

Using @Jira in Microsoft Team: create, update and assign work from chat | Atlassian

Yes, Jira works inside Microsoft Teams. The Jira Cloud for Microsoft Teams app brings project management into your conversations, and it just got smarter. Over a million users already rely on the Jira for Microsoft Teams integration for notifications, work item previews, and quick actions. Now Jira understands natural language, so you can create, update, and assign work without ever leaving your Teams chat.

Enterprise Cyber Security Solutions for Security Leaders

Enterprise security is becoming more complex because companies have more users, devices, cloud services, and third-party applications to protect than ever before. Many successful attacks still exploit basic security gaps across these environments rather than sophisticated vulnerabilities. Enterprise cyber security solutions help organizations protect every layer of the business, from networks and endpoints to identities, data, and communication. In this guide, you'll learn.

Understanding the Privacy and Security Implications of OpenAI's Apple Messages Plugin

OpenAI's new Apple Messages plugin gives ChatGPT access to the Messages application on a Mac. Once enabled, users can ask ChatGPT to find conversations, summarize them, draft replies, and send messages. That has understandably raised questions about what it means for iMessage privacy. The starting point is understanding what the plugin does and, just as importantly, what it doesn't do.

Can AI Really Save You Time on Email?

Email is one of the few workplace tools that creates more work simply by being available. Every message asks for a small decision: open it now or later, reply or ignore, archive or keep, delegate or handle personally. None of these decisions seems particularly demanding on its own, but together they can consume a surprising amount of time and attention. The problem is not always the number of messages.

Freshservice AI Agent Guide 2026: Pricing & Use Cases

IT support has a familiar problem. An employee says, “I can’t access Salesforce,” but solving that request may involve much more than answering a question. Someone has to understand what access is needed, check whether the employee is eligible, collect missing information, trigger an approval, update an identity platform, record the request in the ITSM system, and tell the employee when it is complete. For years, service desk chatbots solved only the first part of that journey.

AI polish makes it harder to spot problems. But there's a quick fix.

AI makes it quick and easy to turn rough notes into a clean, easy-to-read document. Job well done, right? Think again. Atlassian’s Teamwork Lab suspected that this professional veneer—what we call “AI polish”—makes it harder to spot foundational flaws and give feedback, so we tested it. We wanted to know: Does AI polish make it harder to identify problems in early drafts? How can we solve for this blind spot?

3 tips every internal communicator needs to hear ft. Carolyn Clark, Simpplr

Internal communications is evolving fast — and the communicators who stay ahead are the ones rethinking how they work, not just what they produce. Carolyn Clark, Simpplr's VP of Communications and EX Strategy, shares her top 3 tips for modern communicators: from leading with context over content, to leveraging AI in your comms workflow, to getting into the strategic rooms where decisions get made.