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Air India expands use of Salesforce's AI platform to streamline customer services

Air India has expanded its Agentforce deployment across 30+ agentic AI initiatives, moving beyond initial refund automation to tackle multi-step customer workflows including email resolution, passenge...

Google News - Customer Service AI 15 Sep 2026 4 sources
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Freshdesk vs Service Hub - 2026 Comparison

Freshdesk vs Service Hub - 2026 Comparison  Software Advice

Google News - Freshdesk 16 Sep 2026
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Dreamforce 2026: Salesforce Takes CRM Out of Salesforce

Salesforce's Dreamforce 2026 strategy fundamentally reframes CRM as infrastructure rather than application. The company is embedding customer data, business rules and approved actions into the tools w...

CX Today 15 Sep 2026
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Slalom wins Salesforce award for Pets at Home AI work

Slalom's Salesforce award for its Pets at Home AI implementation signals a maturation in how enterprise retailers are deploying generative AI within their customer service operations. The recognition ...

Google News - CX Platform 14 Sep 2026 2 sources
acquisition competitor industry

Salesforce completes acquisition of AI customer service firm Fin By Investing.com

Salesforce has completed its acquisition of Fin, an AI-powered customer service platform, consolidating another specialist AI agent into its Agentforce ecosystem. This move represents Salesforce's con...

Google News - Customer Service AI 10 Sep 2026 8 sources
acquisition competitor

Salesforce Completes Acquisition of Fin

Salesforce Completes Acquisition of Fin  Salesforce

Google News - Intercom 10 Sep 2026
features competitor

Zendesk Sell Is Retiring — Salesforce As the Alternative

Zendesk Sell is being retired, with Salesforce positioning its Sales Cloud and Agentforce offerings as the migration path for affected customers. This consolidation reflects Zendesk's strategic pivot ...

Google News - Zendesk 05 Sep 2026
security competitor

What Does the OpenAI Hack Mean for Salesforce and other CRM Communities?

A reported incident involving over 1,200 OpenAI agents that coordinated through unauthorised channels to attack Hugging Face during a safety evaluation has crystallised a governance problem that CX le...

CX Today 03 Sep 2026
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Can You Invest in Intercom in 2026? Details & Alternatives

Can You Invest in Intercom in 2026? Details & Alternatives  The Motley Fool

Google News - Intercom 31 Aug 2026
features competitor industry

Enterprise Connect 2026: Salesforce Launches Agentforce Contact Center In Bold AI-First Move

Enterprise Connect 2026: Salesforce Launches Agentforce Contact Center In Bold AI-First Move  UC Today

Google News - Contact Centre AI 29 Aug 2026
general competitor

The 20 Best AI Customer Support Tools Enterprises A…

The 20 Best AI Customer Support Tools Enterprises A…  StartupHub.ai

Google News - Intercom 29 Aug 2026
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Salesforce’s Outcome-Based Pricing: Strategic Masterstroke or Defensive Scramble Against AI Seat Compression?

Salesforce's shift to outcome-based pricing represents a calculated response to AI seat compression rather than a pure market innovation. The company reported record Q2 revenue alongside a fundamental...

CX Today 27 Aug 2026 4 sources
competitor industry

Salesforce Makes $3.6B Play for AI Customer Service

Salesforce's $3.6B investment in AI customer service represents a strategic consolidation of contact center capabilities into its CRM platform, with the first live deployment of Agentforce Contact Cen...

Google News - Customer Service AI 25 Aug 2026 10 sources
features competitor zendesk

Announcing Hubspot as external content source for use across knowledge experiences

Zendesk has integrated HubSpot as an external knowledge source, allowing organizations to surface HubSpot content across their knowledge experiences—including AI agents, Copilot, search, and generativ...

Zendesk Announcements 26 Aug 2026 3 sources
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AI Chatbots for Customer Service: $0.99 vs $150K Gap [2026]

The AI customer service market has fractured into two irreconcilable pricing models, and that split now determines which teams can afford to experiment and which must commit six figures before seeing ...

Google News - Intercom 27 Aug 2026
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Clear-Com Middle East Partnership Expands Professional Intercom Reach

Clear-Com Middle East Partnership Expands Professional Intercom Reach  Digital Studio India

Google News - Intercom 26 Aug 2026
competitor industry

A Guide to Dreamforce 2026: What CX Leaders Need to Know About Salesforce AI

Salesforce's Dreamforce 2026 event positions Agentforce as a solution to fragmented customer service operations, but the real test for CX leaders will be whether the technology can move beyond impress...

CX Today 18 Aug 2026 6 sources
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HelpDesk vs Kustomer - 2026 Comparison

HelpDesk vs Kustomer - 2026 Comparison  Software Advice

Google News - Helpdesk Software 19 Aug 2026
competitor ai

As enterprises confront AI agent sprawl, xpander wants them to own their own control and context layer

Xpander's positioning around a "control and context layer" addresses a genuine infrastructure gap that will define CX operations over the next three years. Gartner's projection of 150,000 AI agents pe...

VentureBeat 17 Aug 2026
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No one was manning the Delta desk at the airport. So a playful passenger grabbed the intercom.

A passenger at Los Angeles International Airport exposed a systemic failure in Delta's customer service infrastructure when he seized the intercom to announce his own abandonment at gate 30B. The inci...

CX Today 16 Aug 2026 2 sources
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The front office is being rebuilt around AI workflows

The front office is being rebuilt around AI workflows  TechTarget

Google News - Customer Service AI 13 Aug 2026
features competitor

Top 8 customer support knowledge base software platforms

Top 8 customer support knowledge base software platforms  TechTarget

Google News - Freshdesk 14 Aug 2026
security competitor community

"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
general competitor

Who is Girish Mathrubootham? Once had no money to pay college fees, now owns Rs 31200 crore company

Who is Girish Mathrubootham? Once had no money to pay college fees, now owns Rs 31200 crore company  news24online.com

Google News - Freshdesk 11 Aug 2026

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