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AI, Customer Experience, and Knowledge Management Leaders Convene at eGain Solve26 in Chicago

AI, Customer Experience, and Knowledge Management Leaders Convene at eGain Solve26 in Chicago  GlobeNewswire

Google News - Customer Service AI 08 Oct 2026
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AI Agents Trigger a New Battle for Customer Data Control

AI agents are fundamentally reshaping the competitive landscape of CRM and CDP platforms by shifting the battleground from data unification to governed decision-making. Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, Braze a...

Google News - Customer Service AI 06 Oct 2026 2 sources
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Salesforce expands action flows with new connectors and search features

Zendesk has rolled out three interconnected enhancements to action flows in early October 2026, fundamentally reshaping how CX teams can orchestrate workflows across their tech stack. The core expansi...

Zendesk Announcements 05 Oct 2026 3 sources
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Bidirectional communication not happening through what's up messenger integration in zendesk.

The WhatsApp integration failure reported—where tickets create successfully inbound but agent responses fail to transmit back to the customer—exposes a critical gap in Zendesk's bidirectional messagin...

Internal Note 06 Oct 2026 2 sources
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What Is Touchless Resolution? How AI Moves Beyond Automation

Touchless resolution represents a fundamental recalibration of how CX leaders should evaluate AI success, moving the measurement from interaction speed to verified outcome completion. The distinction ...

Google News - Customer Service AI 06 Oct 2026
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Announcing alerts in agentic analytics (EAP)

Zendesk has rolled out two interconnected capabilities designed to embed human oversight into its agentic systems: the ability for admins and agents to edit AI agent tickets and take over conversation...

Zendesk Announcements 05 Oct 2026 2 sources
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Adoreboard launches CX predictive intelligence platform to turn customer experience into revenue impact

Adoreboard launches CX predictive intelligence platform to turn customer experience into revenue impact  Lelezard

Google News - CX Platform 06 Oct 2026
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How AI Voice Assistant Development Is Reshaping Customer Service in 2026

How AI Voice Assistant Development Is Reshaping Customer Service in 2026  Nasscom

Google News - Customer Service AI 07 Oct 2026
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Contact centres in public sector have lowest rates of customer satisfaction with AI use

Public sector contact centres are experiencing significantly lower customer satisfaction rates with AI implementations compared to their private sector counterparts. This disparity reflects a fundamen...

Google News - Customer Service AI 05 Oct 2026
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Voice AI Lawsuits Put Contact Centers on BIPA Watch

Plaintiff lawyers have weaponised the distinction between call recording and biometric processing, creating a litigation pathway that contact center leaders can no longer treat as a vendor problem. Th...

Google News - Contact Centre AI 04 Oct 2026 2 sources
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BT Business launches AI Receptionist for customer calls

BT Business has launched an AI Receptionist designed to handle incoming customer calls, positioning itself within a rapidly expanding market of voice-based AI agents that now includes offerings from M...

Google News - Customer Service AI 02 Oct 2026 2 sources
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Helppli Launches HelppliX Agent, Giving Businesses an AI Front Line for Customer Service

Helppli has launched HelppliX Agent, a configurable AI system designed to handle customer conversations across voice, WhatsApp, SMS, web chat, and email without requiring businesses to rebuild infrast...

Google News - Customer Service AI 02 Oct 2026
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Release notes through 2026-10-02

See the What's New section for an overview of last month's releases.This week's release notes include: Knowledge AI Agents Contact Center Mobile SDKs App Marketplace Products with no updates this week...

Zendesk Release Notes 04 Oct 2026
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Announcing locale override for messaging SDKs

Zendesk has introduced locale override functionality for its messaging mobile SDKs, enabling integrators to specify a customer's preferred language during SDK initialization rather than defaulting to ...

Zendesk Announcements 01 Oct 2026
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Cognigy Introduces AI Copilot to Assist Contact Center Agents

Cognigy's launch of AI Copilot represents a deliberate pivot from agent-facing suggestion tools toward comprehensive real-time support systems that embed generative AI directly into agent workflows. T...

Google News - Contact Centre AI 01 Oct 2026
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Announcing quality score for human agent conversations

Announced on Rollout on October 8, 2026 November 10, 2026 We're excited to announce quality score, a new way to understand the quality of your customer service interactions directly in Zendesk. Qualit...

Zendesk Announcements 02 Oct 2026
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Hotel Bethlehem commits to never use AI customer service

Hotel Bethlehem's announcement of its "R.E.A.L. People Promise"—a commitment to reject AI-driven customer service entirely—represents a deliberate positioning choice rather than a technical limitation...

Google News - Customer Service AI 30 Sep 2026
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Announcing brand filtering for Mobile SDKs

Zendesk has released brand filtering for its mobile SDKs on iOS and Android, enabling end users to view only conversations associated with their current brand context. The feature addresses a genuine ...

Zendesk Announcements 29 Sep 2026 2 sources
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Announcing configurable Knowledge and Welcome replies in email AI agents with agentic AI

Zendesk has closed a critical feature gap in its email AI agents by introducing configurable Knowledge and Welcome replies, bringing email automation to functional parity with its messaging channel ca...

Zendesk Announcements 29 Sep 2026 2 sources
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Announcing outbound queue selection in Contact Center

Announced on Rollout on October 1, 2026 October 1, 2026 We’re excited to announce outbound queue selection in Zendesk Contact Center. This feature gives agents more flexibility when making outbound ca...

Zendesk Announcements 29 Sep 2026
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Announcing WhatsApp usernames in the Agent Workspace

Announced on Rollout on September 30, 2026 September 30, 2026 We’re happy to announce that you can now view WhatsApp usernames in the Agent Workspace.This article includes the following sections: What...

Zendesk Announcements 29 Sep 2026
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Announcing procedure testing for auto assist

Announced on Rollout starts Rollout ends October 7, 2026 October 7, 2026 October 12, 2026 Admins can now test procedures for auto assist directly in the procedure editor in Knowledge before publishing...

Zendesk Announcements 30 Sep 2026
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Twilio Announces New Integration with Google Cloud Contact Center AI

Twilio Announces New Integration with Google Cloud Contact Center AI  CX Today

Google News - Contact Centre AI 02 Oct 2026
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Announcing the general availability of employee service AI agents

Announced on Rollout starts Rollout ends October 2, 2026 November 3, 2026 December 1, 2026 Zendesk is excited to announce the general availability of employee service AI agents, which are purpose-buil...

Zendesk Announcements 29 Sep 2026

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