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Cleomitra Expands AI-Powered CRM Platform to Unify Customer Communication and Business Operations

Cleomitra's expansion of its AI-powered CRM platform represents a consolidation play in a market increasingly defined by the tension between unified platforms and best-of-breed specialisation. By posi...

Google News - CX Platform 12 Aug 2026
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Four of five enterprises that secured AI agent identities still can't contain one that goes rogue

Visa's security research into AI agent vulnerabilities reveals a critical gap between deployment confidence and operational control. When Rajat Taneja demonstrated Anthropic's Claude model identifying...

VentureBeat 12 Aug 2026
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eGain Wins Two Bronze Stevie Awards for AI Knowledge Hub and Composer in 2026 International Business Awards

eGain has secured two Bronze Stevie Awards for its AI Knowledge Hub and Composer at the 2026 International Business Awards, recognition that underscores a particular thesis gaining traction across the...

Google News - Customer Service AI 12 Aug 2026
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MIT: Agentic AI will fail without a solid data foundation

MIT and Google Cloud's research exposes a critical gap between agentic AI adoption and actual execution capability across enterprises. Whilst nearly every organization claims to be deploying agentic A...

No Jitter 12 Aug 2026
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Scottish Building Society Partners with Malted AI to Revolutionize Customer Insights

Scottish Building Society's deployment of Malted AI represents a deliberate shift toward consolidating customer intelligence across interaction channels rather than simply layering AI onto existing su...

Google News - Customer Service AI 12 Aug 2026
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AI Adoption in CX Nears 70%, Yet Only 2% of Programs Reach the Center of Excellence Standard, Forethought Report Finds

The adoption-to-excellence gap in AI-powered customer experience has reached a critical inflection point. Nearly 70% of CX teams have deployed some form of AI, yet only 2% have achieved Centre of Exce...

Google News - Zendesk 12 Aug 2026
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"City-Forum" data-theft attacks target Salesforce, ServiceNow portals

The City-Forum campaign represents a sustained, methodical assault on customer-facing portals rather than a vulnerability hunt. Operating from a single German IP address since March 2025, the attacker...

BleepingComputer 12 Aug 2026
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eGain Announces Technology Credit Union Selects eGain AI Knowledge Hub to Modernize Member Service

eGain's partnership with Technology Credit Union represents a deliberate positioning play in the knowledge management layer of AI-driven customer service, capitalizing on its recent Gartner Leader des...

Google News - Customer Service AI 11 Aug 2026 2 sources
industry

Brits Still Prefer Contact Centre Agents Despite Rise in AI Technology

British consumers have decisively rejected the premise that AI should replace human agents in customer service. A YouGov survey of 2,046 UK adults found that 90% prefer speaking to a real person, with...

Google News - Customer Service AI 12 Aug 2026
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Scottish BS deploys AI across all customer interactions

Scottish Building Society's deployment of Malted AI across all customer interactions represents a fundamental shift in how financial services organisations approach quality assurance and issue detecti...

Google News - Customer Service AI 12 Aug 2026
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Agent context layers: Enterprises governing their AI data are catching twice as many bad answers as the ones who aren't

Enterprises that implement governance frameworks around AI agent context are identifying hallucinations at twice the rate of those operating without such controls. Across 101 organisations surveyed, 6...

VentureBeat 12 Aug 2026
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Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations know how to govern agents but still can't meter what they cost

Enterprise organisations have solved the governance problem for AI agents but remain unable to accurately track their operational costs. Across 107 enterprises surveyed, the typical organisation runs ...

VentureBeat 12 Aug 2026
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FreJun Launches Teler to Build the Voice Layer Under India’s AI Agents

FreJun's launch of Teler represents a deliberate move to capture the infrastructure layer beneath India's expanding voice AI ecosystem. The platform abstracts telephony complexity through an API-first...

Google News - Customer Service AI 12 Aug 2026
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Agentic reliability and evaluations : Enterprises that got burned by a bad eval are the most likely to remove humans from the loop, not the least

Enterprises are doubling down on automation despite mounting evidence that their evaluation frameworks are broken. Across 108 organizations, trust in automated agent evaluation nearly tripled between ...

VentureBeat 12 Aug 2026
security ai

Agentic security: Enterprises enforce agent permissions two-thirds of the time

Agent security enforcement across enterprises reveals a critical gap between deployment velocity and operational safeguards. Two-thirds of the 116 enterprises surveyed do enforce scoped permissions at...

VentureBeat 12 Aug 2026
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AI-Supported After-Hours Business Tools: Bulldog Harley-Davidson Deploys Revmo AI

Bulldog Harley-Davidson's deployment of Revmo AI demonstrates a fundamental shift in how dealerships capture revenue outside traditional operating hours. By integrating conversational AI directly with...

Google News - Customer Service AI 11 Aug 2026
industry

Firstsource and Cresta Partner to Accelerate AI-Powered Customer Experience Transformation

Firstsource, a major BPO player, has partnered with Cresta to embed AI-powered real-time guidance into customer interactions across its operations. The partnership positions Cresta's conversation inte...

Google News - CX Platform 11 Aug 2026 2 sources
analysis

AI wins clicks but shoppers still prefer the human touch, new research finds

AI wins clicks but shoppers still prefer the human touch, new research finds  Retail Gazette

Google News - Customer Service AI 12 Aug 2026
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Decagon Hit $100 Million Betting Against Forward Deployed Engineers

Decagon has reached $100 million in annualized revenue by positioning itself as the antithesis of the forward-deployed engineer model that has become standard across enterprise software vendors. CEO J...

Google News - Customer Service AI 11 Aug 2026
analysis

Nine in 10 Brits Still Prefer Speaking to a Real Person Despite AI Boom, New Research Reveals

Nine in 10 Brits Still Prefer Speaking to a Real Person Despite AI Boom, New Research Reveals  Pressat.co.uk

Google News - Customer Service AI 12 Aug 2026
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Genesys Puts AI Trust at the Center of Its Agentic CX Strategy

Genesys is positioning trust and governance as competitive differentiators in the agentic AI race, recognising that the industry has largely sidestepped accountability questions as autonomous systems ...

CX Today 11 Aug 2026
industry

Consumers warming to AI customer service agents

Consumer sentiment towards AI customer service agents has shifted markedly, with Metrigy's 2Q AI Consumer Experience Index recording an 11.8% gain in AI satisfaction and a 7.6% increase in trust—the s...

No Jitter 11 Aug 2026
features

The 98% Visibility Gap Reshaping Workforce Engagement

Contact centres have operated with a critical blind spot: traditional workforce engagement management platforms capture insights from only 2-5% of customer interactions, leaving 98% of conversation da...

CX Today 11 Aug 2026
ai

Your AI agent may be ready. Your sales motion probably isn’t.

The agent economy has created a peculiar gap between technical capability and commercial viability. Vendors across the market—from established platforms like Salesforce with Agentforce to emerging pla...

VentureBeat 11 Aug 2026

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