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How CRM Vendor Attio Turned Intercom’s Fin AI Agent Into an Always-On Sales Rep

Buyers do not shop on your schedule. They land on your site after hours, ask a question you did not anticipate, and disappear if the answer is not instant. For CX and revenue leaders, that reality is...

CX Today 14 May 2026
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ServiceNow’s Knowledge 26 Warning: Govern AI Agents Or Watch Them Break Things

I arrived at ServiceNow Knowledge 26 expecting another confident enterprise AI keynote. What I found was a more urgent message: agentic AI is moving fast, and enterprises need control before they give...

CX Today 14 May 2026
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How CX Leaders Can Build Customer Trust With AI Agents

How CX Leaders Can Build Customer Trust With AI Agents  CX Today

Google News - Customer Service AI 14 May 2026
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eGain Corp stock (US2823851026): Trading at low PE ratio amid AI agent mentions

eGain Corp stock (US2823851026): Trading at low PE ratio amid AI agent mentions  AD HOC NEWS

Google News - Customer Service AI 14 May 2026
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Announcing the integration of the action builder with AI agents

Announced on Rollout starts Rollout ends May 13, 2026 May 13, 2026 June 12, 2026 Zendesk is happy to announce the integration of the action builder with AI agents. This improvement allows you to utili...

Zendesk Announcements 13 May 2026
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Not Building Trust Before AI Agents Is a Mistake

 Rob Wilkinson sits down with Amazon Connect Customer leaders, Tony Shen and Jeremy Puent, to unpack what slows real deployments down, where things go wrong, and why the biggest risk is not the mista...

CX Today 13 May 2026
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AI in CX: How to Build Empathy with Your Agentic Workforce

The tension between deploying agentic AI and maintaining customer empathy has become the defining challenge for CX leaders in 2025. A Stanford-backed study reveals that whilst 71% of consumers doubt A...

Google News - Customer Service AI 12 May 2026
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Agentic Customer Experience Platforms

Sierra's launch of Ghostwriter, backed by $950 million in funding, signals a fundamental shift in how enterprises will architect customer experience automation. The platform converts natural-language ...

Google News - CX Platform 11 May 2026
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AI agents are running hospital records and factory inspections. Enterprise IAM was never built for them.

AI agents are now operating across mission-critical enterprise functions—from updating patient records in hospitals to conducting quality inspections on manufacturing floors—yet the identity and acces...

VentureBeat 11 May 2026
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Glean unveils framework for controlling AI agents

Agent Development Lifecycle is a tool for building, launching and controlling what tasks or workflows an AI agent should do.

No Jitter 12 May 2026
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German Enterprises Integrate AI Agents with Salesforce to Automate Customer Service and Personalize Marketing

German Enterprises Integrate AI Agents with Salesforce to Automate Customer Service and Personalize Marketing  geneonline.com

Google News - Customer Service AI 12 May 2026
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Quiq extends its AI agent platform into voice as enterprise rollouts move past pilots

Quiq's expansion into voice capabilities signals a maturation in enterprise AI deployment that moves beyond isolated channel experiments toward unified, context-aware customer journeys. The platform's...

Google News - Customer Service AI 11 May 2026
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Parloa solidifies partnership with SAP to revolutionize customer interactions with agentic AI

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

Google News - Customer Service AI 12 May 2026
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Derya Launches Industry-First AI Agent on Customer Service Lines

Derya, a firearms manufacturer with less than two years of U.S. operations, has deployed an AI agent on its customer service lines, marking what the company claims is the first such implementation in ...

Google News - Customer Service AI 11 May 2026
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Your AI Agents Are Ready. Your Enterprise Probably Isn’t

The enterprise AI investment cycle has hit a wall. Nearly half of organizations pouring capital into AI are seeing negligible returns, with only 25% of initiatives delivering expected ROI and just 16%...

CX Today 11 May 2026
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Agentic AI in Customer Journeys: How AI Agents Improve Personalization, Service, and Conversion

Agentic AI is reshaping customer journey architecture by enabling autonomous systems to handle inquiry triage, personalisation, and conversion optimisation without human intervention at every decision...

Google News - Customer Service AI 11 May 2026
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50% of inquiries handled by AI: Partner integrates artificial intelligence into customer service

Partner's deployment of AI agents handling 50% of customer inquiries represents the operational reality that agentic AI in contact centres has moved beyond pilot phase into mainstream implementation. ...

Google News - Customer Service AI 09 May 2026
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Three Strategies to Achieve Real AI ROI: A Preview of the Agentic Future

Oracle's framework for achieving AI ROI centres on three core strategies that move beyond experimental chatbots toward autonomous agents capable of executing business processes end-to-end. The shift f...

Google News - Customer Service AI 08 May 2026

What happened in Zendesk this week

Platform changes, security updates, and honest opinions from someone who builds on Zendesk every day. One email, Fridays.

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