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Brex assumes its AI agents could do anything

Brex's approach to AI agent deployment inverts the traditional security model by monitoring network behaviour rather than constraining agent logic itself. CEO Pedro Franceschi presented this framework...

VentureBeat 10 Aug 2026
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Twilio Sees Voice AI Adoption Surge 50%+ Amid Growing CX Buyer Caution

Twilio's Q2 results reveal a widening gap between voice AI experimentation and production maturity. Self-service voice adoption has surged 50% year-on-year, with early customers demonstrating substant...

CX Today 10 Aug 2026
ai

Token-maxxing is dead. Agentic memory is what comes next.

The industry's obsession with token optimisation—squeezing maximum performance from LLM context windows through prompt engineering and data compression—has reached its practical ceiling. What's emergi...

VentureBeat 10 Aug 2026
industry

Five9 Wins $100M Financial Services CCaaS Contract

Five9's $100 million Fortune 100 financial services contract represents a meaningful validation of cloud-native CCaaS architecture in regulated industries, but more importantly, it signals a shift in ...

CX Today 10 Aug 2026
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Twilio Sees Voice AI Adoption Surge 50%+ Amid Growing CX Buyer Caution

Twilio's Q2 results reveal a widening gap between voice AI experimentation and production maturity. Self-service voice adoption has surged 50% year-on-year, with the vendor demonstrating clear expansi...

Google News - Customer Service AI 10 Aug 2026
general

Your agent didn’t hallucinate; it exceeded its authority

The distinction between content safety and operational authority represents a critical blind spot in enterprise AI deployment. Content filters excel at preventing an agent from generating offensive la...

VentureBeat 10 Aug 2026
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Rinnai Australia cuts service times with Oracle AI

Rinnai Australia deployed Oracle AI to reduce customer service response times, demonstrating how enterprise-grade AI platforms are moving beyond chatbot novelty into measurable operational impact. The...

Google News - Customer Service AI 10 Aug 2026
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Rinnai Australia cuts service times with Oracle AI

Rinnai Australia deployed Oracle AI to reduce customer service response times, marking a practical application of enterprise AI in the HVAC sector. The implementation demonstrates how established vend...

Google News - Customer Service AI 10 Aug 2026
industry

Five Costly Mistakes Enterprises Make When Replacing a Legacy Contact Center Platform

Enterprise contact center migrations fail not because the technology is inadequate, but because organizations approach procurement as a reactive exercise rather than a strategic one. Martin Taylor's a...

CX Today 10 Aug 2026
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Netic Partners with American Residential Services to Bring Frontier AI to One of America's Largest Home Services Providers

Netic has partnered with American Residential Services (ARS), one of the largest home services providers in the US, to deploy frontier AI capabilities across the organisation's customer experience ope...

Google News - Customer Service AI 10 Aug 2026
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Glo unveils AI device, ‘Gloria’, ahead of 23rd anniversary

Glo, the Nigerian telecommunications operator, has launched Gloria, an AI device positioned as a customer experience innovation ahead of its 23rd anniversary milestone. The move signals a strategic pi...

Google News - Customer Service AI 10 Aug 2026
industry

KT Completes AI Contact Center for NH NongHyup Bank, Cuts Call Time 20%

KT's deployment of an AI contact center for NH NongHyup Bank demonstrates the operational efficiency gains now achievable through integrated voice AI and backend system connectivity. The 40 billion wo...

Google News - Contact Centre AI 10 Aug 2026
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Agentic AI gives customer care a proactive edge - TMForum

Agentic AI is reshaping customer care from reactive to proactive by enabling systems to anticipate customer needs and take autonomous action rather than simply responding to inbound requests. Unlike t...

Google News - Customer Service AI 10 Aug 2026
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US Retail Jobs at Risk as AI and Automation Reshape Warehouses, Supermarkets and Customer Service

Automation is displacing retail workers across warehouses, supermarkets, and customer service operations at an accelerating pace. The shift reflects a broader industry pivot toward AI-driven systems t...

Google News - Customer Service AI 10 Aug 2026
general

Can AI-Native Platforms Fix Fragmented Enterprise CX?

AI-native platforms are positioning themselves as solutions to the fragmentation problem that plagues enterprise CX operations, where legacy systems force teams to stitch together disconnected tools a...

Google News - Customer Service AI 10 Aug 2026
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Meta returns to open source with Muse Glimmer, an Apache 2.0 licensed 30B parameter AI model optimized for agents

Meta's release of Muse Glimmer represents a deliberate shift in how foundational AI models for agentic systems will be distributed and deployed. The 30-billion-parameter model, licensed under Apache 2...

VentureBeat 10 Aug 2026
features ai industry

Defining the role of agentic AI in the retail customer experience

Agentic AI has moved from emerging technology to retail infrastructure, with 70% of consumers now using AI in their personal lives and Amazon's integration of Rufus and Alexa into a unified shopping a...

Google News - Customer Service AI 10 Aug 2026
ai industry

Can CallMiner Eureka Turn Conversations Into CX Action?

Conversation intelligence has spent years promising contact centers a clearer picture of what customers are saying. The more consequential question now is whether that intelligence can actually change...

CX Today 11 Aug 2026
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Allstate preps Allie platform to drive agentic AI strategy

Allstate is deploying Allie, a proprietary agentic AI platform built on eight integrated components designed to orchestrate agent-to-agent processing across the enterprise. The architecture represents...

Google News - Customer Service AI 10 Aug 2026
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Announcing a new granular permission for managing API and OAuth clients

Zendesk is introducing a granular "Manage APIs" permission for Enterprise plan administrators, enabling technical teams to create, edit, and delete API tokens and OAuth clients without requiring full ...

Zendesk Announcements 10 Aug 2026
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Announcing upcoming changes to WhatsApp Business messaging pricing

Meta is introducing per-message charges for non-template WhatsApp Business replies and utility template messages sent within customer service windows, effective October 1, 2026. Until now, these messa...

Zendesk Announcements 10 Aug 2026
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Sea's AI Push With OpenAI Could Deepen Shopee's Competitive Edge Now

Sea Limited's partnership with OpenAI represents a deliberate consolidation of AI capabilities across Shopee's e-commerce operations in Southeast Asia and Brazil, moving beyond promotional announcemen...

Google News - Customer Service AI 10 Aug 2026
general

AI as a service: how to turn a complex technology into value for the customer

The maturation of AI technology has exposed a critical gap between capability and commercial viability: powerful models alone cannot drive adoption without clear use cases, integration, measurement, p...

Google News - Customer Service AI 10 Aug 2026
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Food Service Company launches AI WhatsApp ordering tool for foodservice sector

Food Service Company launches AI WhatsApp ordering tool for foodservice sector  Bizcommunity

Google News - Customer Service AI 11 Aug 2026

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