Release notes through 08 May 2026
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Intercom rebrands as AI agent Fin after rapid revenue growth

Intercom has rebranded its platform around Fin, an AI agent designed to handle customer support autonomously, following substantial revenue growth that validates the market's appetite for agentic solu...

Google News - Intercom 12 May 2026
general

The Online vs Offline Divide: The Gap Retailers Keep Ignoring

Retailers are failing to bridge the knowledge gap between online and offline channels, despite having access to the data required to do so. Daniel Todaro's analysis reveals that whilst consumers arriv...

CX Today 12 May 2026
features ai industry

Text Turns Customer Service Into A Profit Engine with New Agentic AI Capabilities

Text has introduced agentic AI capabilities designed to transform customer service operations into revenue-generating functions rather than cost centres. The platform's new functionality enables auton...

Google News - Customer Service AI 13 May 2026
features ai

AWS Expands Amazon Connect into Four Agentic AI Solutions for Enterprise Operations

AWS has repositioned Amazon Connect from a contact centre platform into a four-part agentic AI suite designed to embed AI agents directly into enterprise workflows without requiring operational restru...

Google News - Customer Service AI 12 May 2026
industry security

AI Is Breaking Contact Center Security—Are You Ready?

AI is amplifying contact center fraud at scale rather than introducing fundamentally new attack vectors. The critical shift is one of velocity and personalization: attackers now execute social enginee...

CX Today 12 May 2026
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Scheduled Maintenance - June 2-30, 2026

Zendesk QA will undergo infrastructure migration across June 2-30, 2026, with affected customers experiencing up to 30 minutes of downtime on 15 separate dates throughout the month. The maintenance wi...

Zendesk Service Notifications 12 May 2026
industry

IMI moves to protect customer service agents with AI real-time emotional risk detection

I cannot complete this task as requested. The primary source provided contains only a Google privacy consent page with no actual article content about IMI's emotional risk detection initiative. While ...

Google News - Customer Service AI 13 May 2026
general

Expedia taps AI to enhance customer support, acquire new customers

Expedia is processing over 250 million service interactions annually, with more than 30% now powered by AI and that proportion accelerating. The company's hybrid approach demonstrates a clear operatio...

Google News - Customer Service AI 12 May 2026
competitor

HubSpot’s Customer Agent Hits 70% Resolution Rate in 12 Months

HubSpot's Customer Agent has reached 70% autonomous resolution across its 9,000-customer base, a threefold improvement from 20% twelve months prior. The acceleration matters as much as the headline: m...

CX Today 12 May 2026
features ai industry

SAP rolls out customer experience AI agents, assistants

SAP has launched customer experience AI agents and assistants designed to operationalise agentic AI across front-office functions, with rollout beginning at its Sapphire conference and continuing thro...

Google News - Customer Service AI 12 May 2026
features ai

Parloa solidifies partnership with SAP to revolutionize customer interactions with agentic AI

Parloa has secured a strategic partnership with SAP that embeds its AI agents directly into SAP Service Cloud, backed by SAP's investment in the company following Parloa's Series D funding round. The ...

Google News - Customer Service AI 12 May 2026
features industry

Voice Agents Pick Up Pace As Customer Service Centers Embrace AI

Voice agents have moved from experimental proof-of-concept to mainstream deployment, with Vapi's $50 million Series B funding and 1 billion calls handled signalling genuine market maturation. The comp...

Google News - Customer Service AI 12 May 2026
industry competitor

Best Conversational Support Platforms for Customer Service

The conversational support platform market has stratified into distinct operational categories rather than converging around a single dominant approach. G2's 2026 analysis reveals that Agentforce Serv...

Google News - Intercom 12 May 2026
features industry

Quiq launches Voice AI & rebrand for customer service

Quiq launches Voice AI & rebrand for customer service  IT Brief New Zealand

Google News - Customer Service AI 13 May 2026
industry

Why Does Your Network Look Healthy While Customer Experience Is Quietly Degrading?

Network performance dashboards showing green status whilst customer experience degrades represents a fundamental measurement gap that CX leaders must address operationally. The disconnect stems from t...

CX Today 12 May 2026
industry

I was duped by an AI customer service bot and I hate it

I was duped by an AI customer service bot and I hate it  PCWorld

Google News - Customer Service AI 12 May 2026
industry

Your Contact Center AI Isn’t Failing – Your Deployment Is

The gap between AI implementation and measurable ROI in contact centers stems not from product failure but from misaligned deployment expectations and measurement frameworks. Organizations routinely u...

Google News - Contact Centre AI 11 May 2026 2 sources
features ai industry

Text Turns Customer Service Into A Profit Engine with New Agentic AI Capabilities

Text's repositioning from a support-focused platform to a revenue-generating engine marks a deliberate industry shift away from the cost-centre narrative that has dominated AI adoption in customer ser...

Google News - Customer Service AI 12 May 2026
industry

Laying Firm Foundations for AI-led CX Transformation

Laying Firm Foundations for AI-led CX Transformation  contact-centres.com

Google News - Customer Service AI 13 May 2026
general

Digital Experience Platform Market to Hit $41.9 Billion by 2034

The digital experience platform market is projected to reach $41.9 billion by 2034, signalling sustained investment in tools that orchestrate customer interactions across channels. This growth traject...

Google News - CX Platform 12 May 2026
industry

Emplifi Wins Bronze Stevie® Award for AI-Powered Customer Experience Innovation at the 2026 American Business Awards

Emplifi's Bronze Stevie Award for AI-powered customer experience innovation signals a maturing market where mid-tier vendors are gaining recognition alongside enterprise incumbents. The award validate...

Google News - CX Platform 12 May 2026
industry

Emplifi Wins Bronze Stevie® Award for AI-Powered Customer Experience Innovation at the 2026 American Business Awards®

Emplifi's Bronze Stevie Award for Product Innovation signals a maturing market where AI-powered CX platforms are moving beyond point solutions toward unified orchestration. The award recognises the co...

Google News - CX Platform 12 May 2026
industry

Your contact center AI is succeeding, but are your customers still suffering? | CX Network

Contact center leaders are optimising for the wrong metric. Containment rates—the percentage of calls that end without agent transfer—have become the primary success indicator for voice AI deployments...

Google News - Contact Centre AI 12 May 2026
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HubSpot’s Customer Agent Hits 70% Resolution Rate in 12 Months

HubSpot's Customer Agent has moved from resolving 20% of support conversations autonomously to 70% in twelve months, with some customers already exceeding 90%. The acceleration emerged during Q1 2026 ...

Google News - Customer Service AI 12 May 2026

What happened in Zendesk this week

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