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Announcing Freshdesk as an external content source for use across knowledge experiences

Announced on Rollout starts Rollout ends July 22, 2026 July 22, 2026 July 28, 2026 We’re excited to announce the general availability of Freshdesk as a knowledge source. You can now connect Freshdesk...

Zendesk Announcements 22 Jul 2026
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TTEC Digital Deploys First Live Salesforce Customer on Agentforce Contact Center

TTEC Digital Deploys First Live Salesforce Customer on Agentforce Contact Center  GlobeNewswire

Google News - Contact Centre AI 23 Jul 2026
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New AI front-office platform targets home-service and landscape businesses

A new AI-powered front-office platform has emerged targeting the home-service and landscape management sector, signalling a deliberate vertical specialisation strategy within the broader CX technology...

Google News - Customer Service AI 21 Jul 2026
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EgyptAir partners with Salesforce on AI-powered customer platform - Urban & Transport - Egypt

EgyptAir's deployment of Salesforce's AI-powered customer platform signals a strategic shift toward consolidating customer interactions within a single ecosystem rather than managing fragmented point ...

Google News - Customer Service AI 21 Jul 2026
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We built an MCP for Zendesk (and HubSpot, Aircall, GA4, and others) so support teams can just ask their metrics questions instead of digging through reports

Hey everyone, Full disclosure, I work at Geckoboard, and I wanted to share something we've built that might help some of you. We've put together an MCP that connects Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI tool...

Reddit r/Zendesk 20 Jul 2026
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World leaders confront AI layoffs; more in store for contact centers

AI-driven workforce displacement in contact centers is accelerating unevenly across industries, with retail, hospitality and food service facing the steepest job losses whilst banking, insurance and u...

Google News - Customer Service AI 15 Jul 2026
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10 Best Free Help Desk Software for Tech Startups in 2026

10 Best Free Help Desk Software for Tech Startups in 2026  G2 Learn Hub

Google News - Freshdesk 15 Jul 2026
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CX Teams Can't Fix Dealer Commerce With a Better Storefront

Dealer commerce environments expose a fundamental misalignment in how CX teams approach modernisation: investing in customer-facing interfaces whilst leaving backend systems fragmented and disconnecte...

Google News - CX Platform 14 Jul 2026
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Why Amazon’s Salesforce MCP Move Matters For CX

Amazon's integration of Connect with Salesforce via the Model Context Protocol represents a fundamental architectural shift in how AI agents operate within contact centers. Rather than relying on pred...

CX Today 14 Jul 2026
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Why Enterprises Are Leaving Zendesk for Salesforce in 2026 and What It Means for CX

Enterprise migration from Zendesk to Salesforce reflects a fundamental shift in how organisations are evaluating CX infrastructure in 2026. The movement centres on Salesforce's aggressive consolidatio...

Google News - Zendesk 14 Jul 2026
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HubSpot vs. IBM: Which AI Software Stock is a Better Buy Now?

HubSpot and IBM represent fundamentally different bets on enterprise AI, yet the comparison reveals critical tensions in how CX platforms are evolving. HubSpot has embedded generative AI across its en...

Google News - Customer Service AI 13 Jul 2026
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Salesforce connects Slack to business data

Salesforce has extended its Headless 360 framework to embed CRM data, Tableau analytics, and AI agents directly into Slack through MCP servers, allowing users to read and edit records without leaving ...

No Jitter 10 Jul 2026
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Why Salesforce’s Headless Contentful Deal Is Bigger Than Content Management

Salesforce's acquisition of Contentful represents a strategic repositioning of content from a marketing asset into operational infrastructure that powers AI-driven customer experiences. Rather than a ...

CX Today 10 Jul 2026
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Big CX News from HubSpot, Microsoft, OpenAI & Anthropic

HubSpot's abrupt reversal of its data enrichment policy and Microsoft's rollout of agentic AI across Dynamics 365 expose a fundamental tension in how vendors are approaching customer trust and operati...

CX Today 10 Jul 2026
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Triveni Power taps Salesforce to deploy AI platform for sales, customer operations

Triveni Power's adoption of Salesforce's AI platform signals a pragmatic shift in how mid-market enterprises are approaching sales and customer operations integration. Rather than treating AI as a sta...

Google News - Customer Service AI 09 Jul 2026
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Salesforce Commits $1 Billion Agentforce Investment to Switzerland

Salesforce's $1 billion five-year commitment to Switzerland represents a deliberate escalation of Agentforce from pilot technology to production-scale infrastructure. The announcement, made by Marc Be...

CX Today 08 Jul 2026
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Lessons from the front lines of AI-powered service transformation

Lessons from the front lines of AI-powered service transformation  raconteur.net

Google News - Customer Service AI 08 Jul 2026
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Salesforce Charges Only for AI Agents That Successfully Resolve Customer Issues

Salesforce's shift to outcome-based pricing for Agentforce—charging only when AI agents successfully resolve customer issues—represents a fundamental recalibration of how vendors price autonomous CX t...

Google News - Customer Service AI 05 Jul 2026
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Big CX News from Salesforce, HubSpot, Genesys & Microsoft

The major CX vendors have fundamentally shifted their product strategy from assisted engagement to autonomous execution. Salesforce's general availability of Agentforce Commerce—particularly the Shopp...

CX Today 03 Jul 2026
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Intercom Revenue, Valuation & Funding History (2026)

Intercom Revenue, Valuation & Funding History (2026)  GetLatka

Google News - Intercom 03 Jul 2026
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Managing Humans and AI in One Contact Center Was Theory. Salesforce Wants It Operational

Salesforce's integration of native workforce engagement management into its contact center platform addresses a structural problem that has plagued supervisors for years: the operational fragmentation...

Google News - Contact Centre AI 02 Jul 2026
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Managing Humans and AI in One Contact Center Was Theory. Salesforce Wants It Operational

Salesforce’s launch of native workforce engagement management at CCW Las Vegas was always going to trigger lots of questions. The first story was the announcement itself. This story is the one b...

CX Today 02 Jul 2026
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Salesforce CMO Annie Weinberger on the Future of Workforce Engagement at CCW 2026

Salesforce's launch of Agentforce Contact Center Workforce Engagement Management at CCW 2026 completes the platform's end-to-end contact center architecture by embedding native WEM capabilities direct...

CX Today 02 Jul 2026
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Salesforce launches AI agent, charges only for resolved support cases in Korea - CHOSUNBIZ

Salesforce has introduced a performance-based pricing model for its AI agent offering in Korea, charging customers only when the agent successfully resolves support cases. This represents a deliberate...

Google News - Customer Service AI 02 Jul 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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