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Contact Center AI Is Only as Good as the Data Behind It – So Why Are We Ignoring the Data?

Contact centers deploying AI agents are systematically neglecting the foundational data work required to make those deployments sustainable. The core problem is straightforward: organisations are raci...

CX Today 25 Jun 2026 2 sources
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The Reality of Voice AI in the Contact Centre: From Pilot to Production

Voice AI pilots routinely deliver impressive demonstrations, yet the transition to production reveals a persistent gap between promise and performance. AudioCodes' Ilan Avner articulates the core prob...

CX Today 25 Jun 2026 2 sources
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CX will be defined by how organisations use AI to improve outcomes

CX will be defined by how organisations use AI to improve outcomes  Comms Business

Google News - Customer Service AI 26 Jun 2026
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Zendesk’s AI-Native Voice Push Pressures Contact Center Silos as Voice Volume Surges

Zendesk's unified voice and digital platform is forcing a reckoning across the contact center industry, exposing the operational fragmentation that has plagued modernization efforts for years. Voice i...

Google News - Zendesk 25 Jun 2026
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Furious Users Are Fed Up of Getting Stuck Talking to AI Customer Service Agents, Resort to Screaming "Human"

Consumer frustration with AI-powered customer service has reached a critical inflection point. A Parloa-commissioned Consumer Patience Index poll of 1,001 US adults reveals that 53 percent actively at...

Google News - Customer Service AI 25 Jun 2026
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Salesforce productizes its own customer service AI agent for users

Salesforce is releasing Agentforce Help Agent, a productized customer service AI built on dual training from Salesforce's own help site (which has handled 4.5 million conversations since October 2024 ...

Google News - Customer Service AI 25 Jun 2026
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Salesforce launches Help Agent to simplify AI customer service deployment

Salesforce has launched Help Agent, a prebuilt AI service agent designed to accelerate deployment timelines for customer service teams. Built atop Agentforce, the offering abstracts away technical com...

Google News - Customer Service AI 25 Jun 2026
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The End of 'Hold Please': How AI Guidance Is Fixing the Contact Center's Biggest CX Failure

CallMiner's Real-Time AI Guidance addresses what has long been the contact center's most visible failure point: the moment an agent lacks immediate knowledge and must either transfer the customer or p...

CX Today 24 Jun 2026 2 sources
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CCW 2026: Is AI Making Customer Experience Better – or Just Cheaper?

The industry's AI narrative has fundamentally misaligned with operational reality. Across CCW 2026, a stark disconnect emerged between vendor positioning and what CX leaders actually need: whilst 89% ...

CX Today 25 Jun 2026
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eGain launches AI agent integration for Zoom Contact Center

eGain's integration of AI agents into Zoom Contact Center represents a tactical move in the broader consolidation of conversational AI into existing contact center platforms, yet the announcement arri...

Google News - Contact Centre AI 24 Jun 2026 2 sources
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eGain puts AI answers and actions inside Zoom Contact Center

eGain has extended its AI knowledge connector portfolio to Zoom Contact Center, embedding real-time answer surfacing and transaction execution directly into Zoom's platform. The integration draws from...

Google News - Contact Centre AI 24 Jun 2026 2 sources
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Sendbird, GS Neotek Partner to Expand AI Agent Adoption in Customer Service

Sendbird's partnership with GS Neotek signals a deliberate push to embed AI agents deeper into customer service workflows, moving beyond the conversational chatbot phase into autonomous problem-solvin...

Google News - Customer Service AI 25 Jun 2026
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Is Compliance Destroying Your Customer Experience?

Compliance and customer experience operate under fundamentally misaligned incentives across most organizations, creating a systematic bias toward friction that erodes the relationships businesses depe...

CX Today 25 Jun 2026
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8x8 launches AI Routing for broader customer service

8x8 has introduced AI Routing capabilities designed to distribute customer service interactions more intelligently across its platform, marking another incremental step in the broader industry shift t...

Google News - Customer Service AI 25 Jun 2026
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Zendesk’s Momentum Shows Contact Centers are Racing to End Silos as Voice Volumes Climb

Zendesk's market momentum reflects a broader industry recognition that contact centers can no longer operate with fragmented channel architectures. Voice remains stubbornly persistent as a customer pr...

Zendesk Press Releases 24 Jun 2026 2 sources
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PLDT Home adopts Amdocs' Store Genie AI customer services platform

PLDT Home adopts Amdocs' Store Genie AI customer services platform  Telecompaper

Google News - Customer Service AI 26 Jun 2026
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Chaty.ai raises $1.15m to automate customer service for tours, experiences and attractions

Chaty.ai raises $1.15m to automate customer service for tours, experiences and attractions  Travolution

Google News - Customer Service AI 26 Jun 2026
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RingCentral’s AIR Pro Bet: Can Agentic AI Redefine the Contact Center Stack?

RingCentral’s AIR Pro Bet: Can Agentic AI Redefine the Contact Center Stack?  The Futurum Group

Google News - Contact Centre AI 25 Jun 2026
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Floward Scales Customer Service to Handle 13x Peak Demand With Infobip AgentOS

Floward deployed Infobip AgentOS to manage a 13-fold spike in customer service demand, demonstrating how AI-native contact centre platforms can absorb seasonal or event-driven volume without proportio...

Google News - Customer Service AI 25 Jun 2026
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How to Improve Contact Center Agent Efficiency with AI: A 2026 Evaluation Guide

The 2026 evaluation guide establishes six AI capabilities as the efficiency baseline for contact center platforms: real-time agent assist (27% AHT reduction), after-call work automation (35% ACW reduc...

CX Today 24 Jun 2026 2 sources
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AI is redefining the contact centre as a conversational experience hub

Contact centres are experiencing a fundamental repositioning from cost centres into strategic revenue drivers, driven by dual pressures: executives demanding AI-driven efficiency gains and customers e...

Google News - Contact Centre AI 25 Jun 2026
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Globe Business launches Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience to help firms turn service into growth

Globe Business launches Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience to help firms turn service into growth  marketech apac

Google News - CX Platform 25 Jun 2026
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Contact Centres are Racing to End Silos as Voice Volumes Climb

Contact Centres are Racing to End Silos as Voice Volumes Climb  contact-centres.com

Google News - Zendesk 25 Jun 2026
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Content Guru Brings AI-Powered CX to the Next Contact Center Summit 2026

Content Guru Brings AI-Powered CX to the Next Contact Center Summit 2026  contact-centres.com

Google News - Contact Centre AI 26 Jun 2026

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