Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News — April 18, 2026
The most structurally significant signal from these recent announcements is not any single product launch — it is the convergence of three simultaneous pressures. First, AI is moving from a feature layer on top of existing platforms to the core operating logic of those platforms.
Sprout Social Unveils Trellis, its AI Agent That Turns Social Data Into Instant Enterprise Intelligence
Sprout Social (Nasdaq: SPT), an industry-leading provider of social media management and analytics software, today launched Sprout AI—the company’s most significant intelligence update—anchored by its new proprietary AI Agent, Trellis. Trellis is the conversational agent that leverages Sprout AI to instantly turn billions of unstructured social data points into actionable…
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