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eGain Reports Fiscal 2026 Results: Total Revenue Up 3%, AI Customer Revenue Up 20%, Company Named a Leader in Gartner's First Customer Service Knowledge Management MQ

eGain's fiscal 2026 results reveal a company successfully pivoting toward AI-driven customer service, with AI revenue growing at 20% against modest 3% total growth. The Gartner Leadership designation ...

Google News - Customer Service AI 03 Sep 2026 6 sources
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Report: Most Companies Can’t Measure Returns On Customer Service AI

Most companies deploying customer service AI cannot measure whether their investments are actually working. A Talkdesk survey of 252 senior decision-makers found that whilst 98% of organizations have ...

Google News - Customer Service AI 03 Sep 2026
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Gartner Survey Finds Only 27% of Customers Would Try a Chatbot Again After a Negative Experience

Gartner Survey Finds Only 27% of Customers Would Try a Chatbot Again After a Negative Experience  Gartner

Google News - Customer Service AI 02 Sep 2026
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Virtualplatform previews AI workflow engine for telcos

Virtualplatform has unveiled an AI workflow engine specifically designed for telecommunications operators, positioning itself as a solution for automating customer service processes at scale. The prev...

Google News - Customer Service AI 01 Sep 2026
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Gartner says AI budgets are growing faster than the rules to control them

Gartner's August 2026 research exposes a structural problem in enterprise AI deployment: customer service teams are allocating 38% more budget to AI whilst overall service and support budgets grow jus...

Google News - Customer Service AI 01 Sep 2026
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Customers still want a human in customer service: Gartner

Customers still want a human in customer service: Gartner  Outsource Accelerator

Google News - Customer Service AI 31 Aug 2026
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Interacting with customer service AI can make people act more like robots, research suggests

Research from the University of Birmingham, Aarhus University, and Linnaeus University has identified a bidirectional influence in human-AI customer service interactions: as conversational AI becomes ...

Google News - Customer Service AI 29 Aug 2026 3 sources
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Meta researchers taught an 8B AI model to match Claude Opus 4.5

Meta's research team has demonstrated that an 8-billion-parameter language model can achieve performance parity with Claude Opus 4.5, Anthropic's flagship frontier model, whilst operating at a fractio...

VentureBeat 28 Aug 2026
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Gartner Survey Finds AI Spending by Customer Service Leaders Has Surged by 38%, Despite Overall Service and Support Function Budgets Rising by Just 2%

Customer service leaders are concentrating investment in AI at a rate that far outpaces overall budget growth, with a 38% surge in AI spending against a mere 2% increase in total service and support b...

Google News - Customer Service AI 26 Aug 2026 5 sources
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Talkdesk report says AI adoption outpaces business gains

Talkdesk's findings expose a widening gap between AI investment velocity and measurable business outcomes in customer service operations. Organisations are deploying AI tools at pace—with [AI spending...

Google News - Customer Service AI 26 Aug 2026 2 sources
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U.S. AI Avatar Market Size And Share Report, 2026-2033

The U.S. AI avatar market is projected to expand significantly through 2033, driven by enterprise demand for conversational interfaces that can handle customer interactions at scale. This growth refle...

Google News - Customer Service AI 25 Aug 2026
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Why Conversation Quality is the New Benchmark for Contact Centre AI

The contact centre industry is moving decisively away from measuring AI success through technical metrics alone. For years, Word Error Rate, latency and speech-to-text accuracy dominated how teams eva...

Google News - Contact Centre AI 21 Aug 2026
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Enterprises with AI context layers report agent failures at more than twice the rate of those without one

Enterprises implementing AI context layers—governance frameworks designed to prevent agents from delivering confident but incorrect responses—are reporting agent failures at more than double the rate ...

VentureBeat 17 Aug 2026 2 sources
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AI could cut cost of running insurance by eliminating repetitive work: Report

AI is reshaping insurance operations by automating routine administrative work across underwriting, claims processing, customer service, and fraud detection, according to a Get Covered report. Rather ...

Google News - Customer Service AI 14 Aug 2026 5 sources
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Majority of Brits Prefer Human Contact Centre Agents Over AI

Research across the UK and Ireland reveals a consistent pattern: 90% of British consumers and 91% of Irish consumers prefer human agents despite accelerating AI investment in customer service infrastr...

Google News - Customer Service AI 12 Aug 2026 6 sources
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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 2 sources
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AI Adoption in CX Nears 70%, Yet Only 2% of Programs Reach the Center of Excellence Standard, Forethought Report Finds

AI Adoption in CX Nears 70%, Yet Only 2% of Programs Reach the Center of Excellence Standard, Forethought Report Finds  01net

Google News - Zendesk 12 Aug 2026
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Monday Service Review: A Slick, AI-First Help Desk Burdened by Pricey Add-Ons

Monday Service positions itself as an AI-first help desk with genuinely sophisticated agent-building capabilities, yet the platform's pricing architecture undermines its competitive positioning. The c...

Google News - Customer Service AI 11 Aug 2026 3 sources
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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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AI Adoption in CX Nears 70%, Yet Only 2% of Programs Reach the Center of Excellence Standard, Forethought Report Finds

AI Adoption in CX Nears 70%, Yet Only 2% of Programs Reach the Center of Excellence Standard, Forethought Report Finds  finance.yahoo.com

Google News - Zendesk 12 Aug 2026
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AI Generates WeChat Moments Captions, Comments & Reviews | Tencent Confirms Feature in Small-Scale Internal Beta Test

Tencent has begun internal beta testing of AI-assisted features within WeChat Moments—specifically "AI Writing Helper" and "AI Commenting"—which generate post captions and reply suggestions using its ...

Google News - Customer Service AI 11 Aug 2026
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Tropical Smoothie Cafe Uses Qualtrics to Turn Reviews Into Revenue

Tropical Smoothie Cafe's implementation of Qualtrics demonstrates a fundamental shift in how franchise-scale businesses approach CX data: moving from satisfaction tracking to direct revenue attributio...

CX Today 07 Aug 2026
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5 AI Service Report Insights for Growing Businesses

5 AI Service Report Insights for Growing Businesses  Salesforce

Google News - Customer Service AI 07 Aug 2026
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The Inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for Customer Service Knowledge Management Systems 2026: The Rundown

Gartner's elevation of customer service knowledge management to a full Magic Quadrant—rather than a Market Guide—signals that the space has matured into a strategic priority. The inaugural report posi...

Google News - Customer Service AI 05 Aug 2026 2 sources

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