OuterSignal Acquires Tempo to Expand AI-Powered Personalization Across Channels
OuterSignal has acquired agentic marketing technology provider Tempo to strengthen AI-powered personalization across email, SMS and web. The combined platform will use richer customer profiles and Tempo’s AI agents to help consumer brands tailor interactions while keeping messaging consistent. Tempo’s standalone app will close on December 1.
Coforge Launches BridgeCX for Personalized Customer Engagement
Coforge, a global AI-native engineering services firm, has launched BridgeCX, a customer engagement solution built on the Pega Customer Decision Hub from Pegasystems and integrated with Mastercard Dynamic Yield. BridgeCX is designed to connect enterprise-grade decisioning with real-time digital execution to help organizations deliver hyper-personalized customer experiences.
Sprinklr Brings Voice of Customer Agents to Gemini Enterprise
Sprinklr announced that its Voice of Customer Agent Suite is available in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Marketplace. The integration connects customer feedback analysis with Google's enterprise AI ecosystem, helping businesses bring customer insights into AI-assisted workflows and decision-making. The move reflects growing interest in making customer intelligence accessible to AI agents across enterprise operations.
Robert Downey Jr. Takes Honorary Customer Experience Role at SPECS
Robert Downey Jr. is stepping into a new role as honorary Chief Customer Experience Officer (CCEO) at SPECS, the augmented reality glasses venture of Snap, giving Tony Stark fans a chance to see Iron Man’s tech ambitions come into focus. Whether Downey Jr. can bring a little Stark-level innovation to customer experience remains to be seen.
Databricks Launches CustomerLake Campaign Agents For Marketers
Databricks has launched CustomerLake Campaign Agents in beta, enabling marketers to build audiences, personalize experiences, and run campaigns using AI agents. Early users include HP, Getnet by Santander, Zé Delivery, Wine.com, and Philadelphia Union. CustomerLake combines customer data, AI models, and agents within the Databricks lakehouse, supporting continuous, real-time campaigns that adapt to customer behavior.
ChurnZero launches Kit, a native AI assistant for customer teams
Kit answers from customer data, internal documentation and ChurnZero’s Knowledge Base to help customer growth teams act on account insights. It can create tasks, draft personalized outreach and save account lists as dynamic segments, while working within existing permissions and review controls.
Verint Named Leader in IDC MarketScape Conversational Intelligence Report
Verint has been named a Leader in IDC MarketScape’s 2026 Worldwide Conversational Intelligence and Analytics Software assessment. The recognition highlights Verint’s position in the market for technologies that analyze customer conversations and help businesses improve customer experience operations.
CallMiner adds AI-powered CX intelligence and supervisor tools
CallMiner has introduced expanded AI Assist capabilities, a redesigned RealTime Command Post and new education resources. The company says the updates help organizations turn customer interactions into actionable intelligence, support supervisors in real time and give more users access to evidence-backed insights.
Kustomer launches Conversation Intelligence and AI QA for CX teams
Kustomer has launched Conversation Intelligence and AI QA, two native capabilities that turn every customer conversation into structured data and scored quality insights. The tools aim to move CX leaders beyond sample-based analysis, helping them improve retention, reduce costs and prove team impact with evidence.
Contentsquare Launches AI-first Experience Platform for Human and Agent Journeys
Contentsquare has unveiled an AI-first Experience Platform that captures signals across web, mobile, conversations and AI agents in real time. The platform adds human, LLM and agent analytics, conversation intelligence, multi-session journey analysis, multi-touch attribution and new agentic AI features, and is available in beta today.
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