American Express Launches Agentic Commerce Playbook for Merchants
American Express has released a free agentic commerce playbook to help merchants prepare for AI-assisted search, recommendations, and purchases. The guide addresses discoverability, transaction readiness, and trust as consumers increasingly use AI agents to shop, while an advisory council will provide merchant input on evolving needs.
Typeform Launches AI Landing Pages With Native Forms
Typeform has launched AI Landing Pages, letting businesses generate branded pages, embed forms and payments, and automate response follow-up from a single prompt. By connecting page creation, customer data capture and workflows in one platform, it aims to reduce friction between discovery, conversion and personalized engagement.
Zeta Global To Acquire Digital Audience to Expand Cross-Channel Activation
Zeta Global has agreed to acquire Digital Audience, adding identity resolution and activation infrastructure to its Zeta Data Cloud. The acquisition will help enterprises carry customer intelligence across more digital channels, activate audiences more efficiently and better measure the impact of connected customer engagement.
Orange Spain Deploys 1,000 Gemini AI Agents for Faster Customer Care
Orange Spain has expanded its Google Cloud partnership, deploying more than 1,000 custom Gemini Enterprise agents across its operations. The low-code AI tools automate incident triage, root-cause analysis and knowledge access, helping customer care teams resolve requests faster while giving employees secure, governed ways to automate workflows.
NCSC Reiterates Guidance After ASOS Confirms Customer Data Breach
The U.K.'s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) has reiterated its data breach guidance, after fashion retailer ASOS confirmed that basic personal information including name and contact details may have been accessed by hackers who pushed an unauthorised notification to customers.
Germany's Bundesliga has selected ServiceNow as its Official CRM Partner, extending the vendor's existing role as its Official Workflow Partner. The football league says that since implementing ServiceNow Customer Service Management in August 2026, it has consolidated its fan services from seven digital channels onto one platform, where 89 percent of enquiries are now resolved at first contact.
Adoreboard’s new Customer Revenue Impact metric combines customer feedback and spend data to estimate the revenue associated with individual experience issues. It ranks problems by the financial value at stake, giving CX leaders a way to prioritize fixes based on predicted revenue risk or upside.
BBVA Looks To Harness AI For More Personalized Banking
BBVA is accelerating its growth strategy in Spain with AI-powered automation and personalization across retail, business, insurance and wealth services. The bank plans to simplify processes, equip relationship managers with stronger advisory tools, and tailor support to individual needs - aiming to make customer banking relationships more relevant and efficient.
Emplifi Adds New AI Tools to its Autonomous CX Platform
Emplifi has launched its Autumn Release with new capabilities across AI, analytics, and team workflows. The update includes Fuel AI, AI-Powered Listening, Dynamic Boards, Campaigns, and Teams, aimed at helping enterprise brands speed up insights, automate manual work, and improve connected customer experiences.
IBM and Red Hat Identify and Remediate 400+ Open-Source Software Vulnerabilities
IBM and Red Hat say their cybersecurity initiative, Project Lightwell, has found and fixed more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used Java libraries. They also launched Lightwell Clearinghouse, which lets enterprise customers submit open-source software dependencies for priority review and remediation.
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