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 [...]

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% [...]

Hopper's AI agent can book flights and cancel trips without human help

Hopper Technology Solutions launched a breakthrough artificial intelligence system Wednesday that can autonomously handle complex travel customer service issues from start to finish, a major advance i [...]

Tome's founders ditch viral presentation app with 20M users to build AI-native CRM Lightfield

Lightfield, a customer relationship management platform built entirely around artificial intelligence, officially launched to the public this week after a year of quiet development — a bold pivot by [...]

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 [...]

Why agentic AI needs a new category of customer data

Presented by TwilioThe customer data infrastructure powering most enterprises was architected for a world that no longer exists: one where marketing interactions could be captured and processed in bat [...]

How Smarsh built an AI front door for regulated industries — and drove 59% self-service adoption

Presented by Salesforce Smarsh, a global provider of cloud-native, AI-driven solutions that capture, archive, and analyze communications data and intelligence for highly regulated industries, set an a [...]

Video Games Weekly: Every time this industry grows, it shrinks

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related to [...]

Inside Zendesk’s dual AI leap: From reliable agents to real-time intelligence with GPT-5 and HyperArc

Presented by ZendeskAgentic AI is currently transforming three key areas of work — creative, coding, and support — says Shashi Upadhyay, president of engineering, AI, and product at Zendesk. But h [...]