Halliday Glasses review: Ambitious smart glasses with frustrating flaws

Every now and then, you review a product you can’t get along with in any way, shape or form. Sometimes, it’s about the quality of the hardware, but more often it’s about the philosophy of its ma [...]

Netomi raises $110 million as Accenture and Adobe bet on AI for customer service

Netomi, the San Francisco-based startup building AI systems for enterprise customer service, said Thursday that it has raised $110 million in new funding in a round led by Accenture Ventures, with par [...]

Orchestration is the new challenge for CX in the age of AI agents

Presented by Tata Communications Enterprises are deploying AI agents, voice AI, and automation across messaging, voice, and digital channels faster than the architecture meant to support it. Most of t [...]

Amazon and Chobani adopt Strella's AI interviews for customer research as fast-growing startup raises $14M

One year after emerging from stealth, Strella has raised $14 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered customer research platform, the company announced Thursday. The round, led by Bessemer [...]

Serval’s super agent Catalyst creates roving background agents to identify and fix IT issues before they’re ticketed

Serval is making Catalyst, its AI agent for building enterprise automations, generally available Thursday and enabling it by default for customers — allowing teams of AI agents to decide what should [...]

Zendesk launches new AI capabilities for the Resolution Platform, creating the ultimate service experience for all

Presented by ZendeskZendesk powers nearly 5 billion resolutions every year for over 100,000 customers around the world, with about 20,000 of its customers (and growing) using its AI services. Zendesk [...]

The best live TV streaming services to cut cable in 2025

Around ten years ago, as the price of cable rose to untenable heights, live TV streaming services arrived as the low-cost, contract-free antidote. The services are still blissfully easy to walk away f [...]

While everyone talks about an AI bubble, Salesforce quietly added 6,000 enterprise customers in 3 months

While Silicon Valley debates whether artificial intelligence has become an overinflated bubble, Salesforce's enterprise AI platform quietly added 6,000 new customers in a single quarter — a 48% [...]

Intercom's new post-trained Fin Apex 1.0 beats GPT-5.4 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 at customer service resolutions

Intercom is taking an unusual gamble for a legacy software company: building its own AI model.The 15-year-old, Dublin, Ireland-based massive customer service platform announced Fin Apex 1.0 on Thursda [...]