Tag: Artificial Intelligence

AI Can Help Customers Shop but Flexible Payments Help Them Stay

Holiday shopping always reflects the mood of the moment, and this year that mood is split between curiosity and caution. Shoppers are leaning into technology in ways that would have seemed unlikely only a few seasons ago — asking AI for...

Beyond the Funnel: Why an AI CRM Might Be Your Most Important System in 2026

Remember when a CRM was basically a fancy spreadsheet? That era’s over. The sharpest teams today aren’t just logging customer data; they’re reading it, predicting it, and acting on it. Welcome to the age of the AI CRM, where information...

This Week in CX: From AI Controversies to Retail Innovation

Happy Friday! ‘This week in CX’ brings you the latest roundup of industry news. This week, we explored the latest in CX and innovation, from the critical role of human judgment in AI-powered customer experiences to the winners of the ICXA25 and...

Amazon Accuses Perplexity’s AI of Shopping on Its Site Without Permission

Amazon’s legal threat against Perplexity AI has become the first major test of what happens when artificial intelligence starts handling the shopping experience for consumers. The tension erupted after Amazon sent a cease-and-desist letter accusing Perplexity’s Comet assistant of unauthorised automated...

The Case for Human Judgment in AI-Powered Customer Experience

Customer service leaders have spent years chasing automation as the answer to scale and cost pressures. Despite rapid advances in AI, the customer experience data tells a different story, one that shows where technology stops and human judgment must step...

Trust Decides Where Patients Go

Patients have changed from passive recipients of care to informed consumers making deliberate choices. According to Healthcare Consumer Experience 2025, Press Ganey’s latest report, the healthcare consumer experience has become a strategic discipline built on trust. People want safety, simplicity...

This Week in CX: Where Innovation Meets Empathy

Happy Friday! ‘This week in CX’ brings you the latest roundup of industry news. This week, we explored why AI isn’t fixing retail marketing bottlenecks, how award-winning brands use it in CX, and what multimodal tech and shadow IT mean for the...

Top 5 Insights from New Metrics at EXP KSA

In October, CXM attended the New Metrics CX event in Saudi Arabia. Here are some of the key learnings Saudi Arabia is a region that has moved from talking about customer experience to now delivering it at scale. That evolution was...

How Award-Winning Brands Use AI for Customer Service: Real Examples from Winners

A few years ago, “AI in customer service” meant a chatbot that got stumped by basic questions and a queue that never ended. We’ve all been there, typing “speak to an agent” like our lives depended on it. The brands pulling...

New Report Reveals Why AI Isn’t Solving Retail Marketing Bottlenecks

Despite widespread adoption, marketers report that growing content demands are outpacing their ability to produce and distribute campaigns through AI. Does the issue lie in how companies are using AI or the technology itself? Typeface’s new Signal Report: Retail Edition finds...