Short, checked, cited where we can. The announcements, the moves and the things worth a look.
Follow @cxtodaynewsOuterSignal 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.
Parloa and OpenAI have expanded their partnership to develop AI agents that resolve customer inquiries faster, more reliably, and at lower cost. Parloa will join OpenAI’s Alpha Model Testing Program and the companies plan to bring Parloa’s platform to the OpenAI Marketplace while engaging enterprise customers, particularly in North America.
OpenAI launched Businesses in ChatGPT in beta. Eligible businesses can claim listings, update information and view aggregated engagement insights. Business Agents initially serve eligible U.S. ecommerce and online service businesses. OpenAI says businesses cannot see users’ conversations or agent chats. Better discovery is the pitch. Buyers should test answer accuracy before treating another AI channel as a service improvement.
NiCE reported Q3 revenue of $790.7 million, up 8% and above guidance, and raised FY2026 non-GAAP EPS guidance to $11.12–$11.32. AI annual recurring revenue rose 46% to $392 million. It also plans a roughly 5% workforce cut. The vendor’s AI sales momentum does not establish that customers receive better service.
Verint has named Abhi Sharma chief product and technology officer, a new role uniting product and technology under one leader. Sharma was most recently CTO at Weave, building autonomous AI agents, after roles at Twilio, Salesforce, Oracle, Amazon and Microsoft. One leader should mean faster shipping. The test is whether that shows up as measurable outcomes for enterprise buyers.
Salesforce introduced Koa Decisions on November 6, the next version of HyperClassifier, which routes work inside Agentforce. In Salesforce's test it returned a choice in 26 milliseconds, against 1.4 seconds for a general-purpose LLM. It handles images and audio, with plans for Flows, Apex and an API. I would ask how often the cheap answer is the wrong one.
Sales Development Agent is in Microsoft Frontier public preview, with setup guidance from Scott Magee. It gets its own Entra identity and Exchange mailbox, can be configured in Teams, and connects to Dynamics 365 Sales and Salesforce over MCP. An agent that emails prospects under its own identity is a bigger call than a Copilot sidecar in the CRM.
Cisco has launched new red teaming, agent observability and vulnerability management features. Its AI Defense platform will add Anthropic’s Claude Mythos to help security teams simulate attacks against AI agents before deployment, Splunk Agent Observability enhancements will link AI token spending to agent performance and Cisco IQ will correlate live threat intelligence with exposed network infrastructure.
Mythos 5.2 is designed to identify, reproduce, and help fix software vulnerabilities, with access restricted to its Cyber Verification Program. Fable 5.2 brings related advances in coding, reasoning and technical problem-solving, with safeguards intended to limit misuse. Protecting the systems underpinning customer-facing services is essential to safeguarding personal data, service continuity and customer trust.
A security researcher found a hardcoded password in U.S. hotel chain Wyndham’s Android app that exposed an internal Salesforce database with customer names, email addresses, membership numbers and login tokens. The database held millions of entries, though the number of affected records is unclear. Wyndham says it revoked the credential and found no evidence of unauthorized access.
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