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Announcing WhatsApp business-scoped user IDs in Zendesk and the Sunshine Conversations API.

Announced on Rollout starts August 13, 2026 August 12, 2026 We're announcing the general availability of WhatsApp business-scoped user IDs (BSUIDs) in Zendesk and the Sunshine Conversations API.This r...

Zendesk Announcements 13 Aug 2026
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LegalZoom: Agentic AI Resolves 40% Of Customer Inquiries As Trademark Search Time Falls 55%

LegalZoom has deployed agentic AI to resolve 40% of customer inquiries end-to-end whilst simultaneously reducing trademark search time by 55% and accelerating patent drafting by 30%. Rather than posit...

Google News - Customer Service AI 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 2 sources
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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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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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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
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Unigarant Selects eGain to Modernize Knowledge Management and Power Its Enterprise AI Strategy

Unigarant's selection of eGain signals a deliberate pivot toward knowledge-first AI implementation in the insurance sector. The Dutch insurer, operating across seven customer channels and managing com...

Google News - Customer Service AI 11 Aug 2026
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DeepSeek Harness launches as open source rival to Claude Code, alongside V4-Pro on API with higher prices

DeepSeek is expanding beyond the model layer and deeper into the software developers use to put AI agents to work.The Chinese AI lab on Thursday launched the official version of DeepSeek-V4-Pro, an up...

VentureBeat 13 Aug 2026
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Food Service Company launches AI WhatsApp ordering tool for foodservice sector

A food service company has deployed an AI-powered WhatsApp ordering tool designed specifically for the foodservice sector, marking another incremental shift toward conversational commerce in verticali...

Google News - Customer Service AI 11 Aug 2026
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Twilio Sees Voice AI Adoption Surge 50%+ Amid Growing CX Buyer Caution

Twilio's Q2 results reveal a widening gap between voice AI experimentation and production maturity. Self-service voice adoption has surged 50% year-on-year, with early customers demonstrating substant...

CX Today 10 Aug 2026 2 sources
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Allstate preps Allie platform to drive agentic AI strategy

Allstate is deploying Allie, a proprietary agentic AI platform built on eight integrated components designed to orchestrate agent-to-agent processing across the enterprise. The architecture represents...

Google News - Customer Service AI 10 Aug 2026 2 sources
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Regal Partners with Five9, Bringing AI Voice Automation to Enterprise Contact Centers

Regal Partners with Five9, Bringing AI Voice Automation to Enterprise Contact Centers  StreetInsider

Google News - Customer Service AI 13 Aug 2026
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Cyber and Fraud Centre – Scotland Launches Security Testing Service For AI Chatbots

Cyber and Fraud Centre – Scotland Launches Security Testing Service For AI Chatbots  digit.fyi

Google News - Customer Service AI 11 Aug 2026
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Announcing a new granular permission for managing API and OAuth clients

Zendesk is introducing a granular "Manage APIs" permission for Enterprise plan administrators, enabling technical teams to create, edit, and delete API tokens and OAuth clients without requiring full ...

Zendesk Announcements 10 Aug 2026
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Agentic AI gives customer care a proactive edge - TMForum

Agentic AI is reshaping customer care from reactive to proactive by enabling systems to anticipate customer needs and take autonomous action rather than simply responding to inbound requests. Unlike t...

Google News - Customer Service AI 10 Aug 2026
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Defining the role of agentic AI in the retail customer experience

Agentic AI has moved from emerging technology to retail infrastructure, with 70% of consumers now using AI in their personal lives and Amazon's integration of Rufus and Alexa into a unified shopping a...

Google News - Customer Service AI 10 Aug 2026
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US Retail Jobs at Risk as AI and Automation Reshape Warehouses, Supermarkets and Customer Service

Automation is displacing retail workers across warehouses, supermarkets, and customer service operations at an accelerating pace. The shift reflects a broader industry pivot toward AI-driven systems t...

Google News - Customer Service AI 10 Aug 2026
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Announcing upcoming changes to WhatsApp Business messaging pricing

Meta is introducing per-message charges for non-template WhatsApp Business replies and utility template messages sent within customer service windows, effective October 1, 2026. Until now, these messa...

Zendesk Announcements 10 Aug 2026
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Announcing team member visibility changes for Enterprise customers

Zendesk has closed a permissions loophole in Admin Center that allowed agents with end-user management rights to view team member lists despite lacking explicit team member management permissions. The...

Zendesk Announcements 10 Aug 2026
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Announcing the ability to convert existing tickets to service catalog requests

Announced on Rollout on August 11, 2026 August 11, 2026 Zendesk is pleased to announce that agents and business rules can associate existing tickets with service catalog items.This announcement includ...

Zendesk Announcements 11 Aug 2026
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Announcing an update to action credits for native Zendesk actions

Announced on Rollout on August 13, 2026 August 13, 2026 Zendesk is updating how action credits are consumed in action flows. Going forward, native Zendesk actions and standard Zendesk connectors will...

Zendesk Announcements 10 Aug 2026
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Exotel Launches #LikeAFriend Campaign to Highlight Customer Frustrations and AI-Powered CX

Exotel's #LikeAFriend campaign positions customer frustration as a central narrative device to justify investment in AI-powered customer experience solutions. The initiative appears designed to bridge...

Google News - Customer Service AI 08 Aug 2026
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Announcing the general availability of the MCP client

Announced on Rollout on August 10, 2026 August 10, 2026 Zendesk is excited to announce the general availability of the MCP client, which makes it possible to use the tools on an MCP server in action f...

Zendesk Announcements 08 Aug 2026
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Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents

Cloudflare has launched Kitesurf, a purpose-built browser for AI agents that represents a fundamental shift in how automation infrastructure is being architected. Rather than optimising for human inte...

TechCrunch AI Agents 07 Aug 2026

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