Sendbird Launches Agent Steward to Bring Full Autonomy and Ownership to AI Customer Experiences
Sendbird Inc., the AI customer experience company powering conversations for over 300 million people every month, redefined AI accountability with the launch of Agent Steward on its Delight.ai platform. Designed to take full ownership of complex, long-running customer issues, Agent Steward is supported by the debut of Trust OS 2.0…
Klaviyo Expands Integration with Anthropic to Bring Agentic Marketing Workflows to Claude
Klaviyo, the autonomous B2C CRM, announced an expanded integration with Anthropic to bring new agentic marketing workflows to Claude. By connecting Klaviyo’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) server more broadly across Claude’s products — including Claude.ai and Claude Cowork — brands can securely access Klaviyo customer and performance data and…
CMOs won’t be running campaigns, they’ll be orchestrating networks. Martech Futurist | May 9, 2026
The CMO role is being rewritten by the marketing technology (and related) architecture that is running the enterprise. Forrester’s new research makes it explicit: the next-generation CMO isn’t running campaigns, they’re orchestrating networks of AI agents, data pipelines, and human specialists. The question isn’t whether this is coming, or…
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | May 11, 2026
Yesterday’s press releases paint a picture that CMOs need to read carefully — not for the vendor optimism, but for the structural shifts hiding underneath it. The dominant theme across May 10’s announcements is a market in the middle of a painful transition: AI tools are proliferating faster than…
#858: MarketingOps CEO Mike Rizzo on Marketing Operations as a strategic driver of growth
Today, we’re going to talk about how to reframe the marketing operations function from a cost center or tactical execution engine into a strategic driver of growth. And we’ll explore a powerful, and perhaps counterintuitive, way to do it: by building a genuine community, not just as a marketing…
Expert Mode: The Contact Center is Your New Competitive Intelligence Engine
We’ve become so fixated on resolving issues quickly that we often fail to ask the more important question: Why are customers contacting us in the first place?
ProWebChat Emerges as a Leading AI-Powered Chat Assistant Redefining Engagement With Advanced AI Integration
Businesses are increasingly turning to ProWebChat not just for AI chat, but for a complete intelligent business engagement platform competitors cannot match
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | May 9, 2026
Yesterday’s collection of announcements is a compressed snapshot of a structural shift in how marketing organizations will operate, compete, and be held accountable. Three forces are converging simultaneously — and CMOs who read these announcements as vendor press releases rather than operational signals will fall behind quickly.
Expert Mode: Your Biggest Competitor Might Be an AI-Powered Scammer
The modern battlefield for customer trust and revenue is being fought on fraudulent websites, deceptive social media ads, and deepfake videos that are becoming terrifyingly convincing. To ignore this is to allow the erosion of brand reputation, the direct loss of revenue, and the inundation of customer service channels…
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | May 8, 2026
The dominant theme of yesterday’s marketing technology and AI news is that the architecture of how marketing decisions get made is being restructured in real time, and several distinct shifts are happening simultaneously with real trade-offs that marketing leaders must navigate now.
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