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BBB study finds consumers frustrated with AI-powered customer service

Consumer sentiment around AI-powered customer service has deteriorated significantly, according to a Better Business Bureau study analysing nearly 20,000 business reviews mentioning AI since 2023. Ove...

Google News - Customer Service AI 26 Jun 2026
features industry

Voices launches AI customer service voice platform

Voices has launched a dedicated AI customer service voice platform, entering a market increasingly crowded with enterprise vendors integrating voice AI capabilities into broader contact centre suites....

Google News - Customer Service AI 26 Jun 2026
general

AI-Driven Delivery Routing Features

AI-Driven Delivery Routing Features  Trend Hunter

Google News - Customer Service AI 29 Jun 2026
general

OpenAI unveils GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna models

OpenAI is announcing a limited preview of its newest frontier AI model GPT-5.6 family, which comes in three variants: Sol, Terra, and Luna. Sol is for the hardest problems, such as complex coding and...

VentureBeat 26 Jun 2026
features ai industry

Will RingCentral's (RNG) Expanded Agentic AI in RingCX Reshape Its Contact Center Narrative

RingCentral's expansion of agentic AI capabilities within RingCX represents a deliberate repositioning against established competitors like Salesforce's Agentforce and Zendesk's AI-driven offerings. T...

Google News - Contact Centre AI 26 Jun 2026
general

Alorica and Crescendo Partner to Bring AI into Live Enterprise Service Channels

Alorica and Crescendo Partner to Bring AI into Live Enterprise Service Channels  CX Today

Google News - Customer Service AI 26 Jun 2026
general

Alorica and Crescendo Partner to Bring AI into Live Enterprise Service Channels

Alorica has teamed up with Crescendo to help enterprises bring AI into complex live-channel customer interactions, where human judgment, context and seamless handoffs remain critical. Alorica will off...

CX Today 26 Jun 2026
industry

Replacing Tasks Not Roles: Contact Center AI Workforce

Replacing Tasks Not Roles: Contact Center AI Workforce  CMSWire

Google News - Contact Centre AI 26 Jun 2026
industry

Contact Center AI Is Only as Good as the Data Behind It – So Why Are We Ignoring the Data?

Contact centers deploying AI agents are systematically neglecting the foundational data work required to make those deployments sustainable. The core problem is straightforward: organisations are raci...

CX Today 25 Jun 2026 2 sources
general

Ace Hardware AI-powered assistant boosting customer, employee experience

Ace Hardware AI-powered assistant boosting customer, employee experience  Retail Customer Experience

Google News - Customer Service AI 26 Jun 2026
general

From Generic Bots to Prebuilt Agents: How CX’s Build vs Buy Debate is Changing

As customer experience (CX) teams race to deploy AI agents, leaders are faced with the question: Do we build our own custom AI agents from scratch, or do we purchase an off-the-shelf platform? Recent...

CX Today 26 Jun 2026
features industry

The Reality of Voice AI in the Contact Centre: From Pilot to Production

Voice AI pilots routinely deliver impressive demonstrations, yet the transition to production reveals a persistent gap between promise and performance. AudioCodes' Ilan Avner articulates the core prob...

CX Today 25 Jun 2026 2 sources
features ai

Talkdesk launches AI agent builder for customer teams

Talkdesk launches AI agent builder for customer teams  IT Brief UK

Google News - Customer Service AI 26 Jun 2026
industry

CX will be defined by how organisations use AI to improve outcomes

CX will be defined by how organisations use AI to improve outcomes  Comms Business

Google News - Customer Service AI 26 Jun 2026
general

Notion Mail shuts down amid agent takeover

Notion is discontinuing Notion Mail on 22 September 2026, pivoting entirely toward AI agent-driven email management after observing that over half its email users never opened their inbox at all. The ...

TechCrunch AI Agents 25 Jun 2026
features ai

CVS tackles tactical agentic AI rollouts for healthcare

CVS Health's measured approach to Agentforce deployment reveals a critical tension between vendor aspiration and enterprise reality in agentic AI adoption. Rather than chasing the transformational nar...

Google News - Customer Service AI 25 Jun 2026
industry

Zendesk’s AI-Native Voice Push Pressures Contact Center Silos as Voice Volume Surges

Zendesk's unified voice and digital platform is forcing a reckoning across the contact center industry, exposing the operational fragmentation that has plagued modernization efforts for years. Voice i...

Google News - Zendesk 25 Jun 2026
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Salesforce Introduces Prebuilt Service Agent With Outcome-Based Pricing Model

Salesforce's launch of Agentforce Help Agent with pay-per-resolution pricing directly addresses a critical market failure: 94 percent of organizations deploying AI agents are not realizing ROI despite...

CX Today 25 Jun 2026
general

Momentive Global outlook after sale to Zendesk, shares now off the market

Zendesk's 2023 acquisition of Momentive Global closed the chapter on an independent survey and experience management platform, removing SurveyMonkey's parent company from public markets through an all...

Google News - Zendesk 25 Jun 2026
analysis

5 Best Help Desk Tools for Small Business Ticket Visibility (Based on 2,000+ G2 Reviews)

G2's analysis of 2,274 help desk reviews identifies ticket visibility—the ability to assign ownership and track status across support requests—as the primary problem small business teams solve first, ...

Google News - Zendesk 25 Jun 2026
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Salesforce Introduces Prebuilt Service Agent With Outcome-Based Pricing Model

Salesforce has launched Agentforce Help Agent, a preconfigured AI service agent paired with outcome-based pricing that charges only when issues resolve autonomously, without escalation or negative fee...

Google News - Customer Service AI 25 Jun 2026
general

ArvatoConnect appoints new leaders as AI reshapes service

ArvatoConnect's leadership restructuring signals a deliberate repositioning within a market where AI-driven automation is becoming table stakes rather than differentiator. The appointment of new leade...

Google News - Customer Service AI 25 Jun 2026
industry

Furious Users Are Fed Up of Getting Stuck Talking to AI Customer Service Agents, Resort to Screaming "Human"

Consumer frustration with AI-powered customer service has reached a critical inflection point. A Parloa-commissioned Consumer Patience Index poll of 1,001 US adults reveals that 53 percent actively at...

Google News - Customer Service AI 25 Jun 2026
competitor ai

Salesforce unveils AI agent for customer support, charges only when issues are resolved

Salesforce unveils AI agent for customer support, charges only when issues are resolved  디지털투데이

Google News - Customer Service AI 25 Jun 2026

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