Priyanshi Kharwade
Direct answer – what is docusign iris DocuSign Iris is DocuSign’s agreement-tuned AI engine, the foundation of its Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM) platform. It analyzes agreement data, surfaces key terms and obligations, and answers questions in natural language. At Momentum ’26 on May 21, 2026, DocuSign launched three Iris-powered capabilities into US early access: an … Read more
Google launched a new generation of Search agents at I/O 2026 on May 19, headlined by “information agents” that run in the background 24/7, scan the open web plus Google’s real-time data, and notify users when something relevant changes. The announcement, written by Liz Reid (VP, Search), also confirmed Gemini 3.5 Flash as the new … Read more
Gartner published a survey on May 20, 2026 finding that 69% of B2B buyers turn to sales representatives to validate AI-generated insights before acting on them. The data comes from a survey of 645 B2B buyers conducted August through September 2025, presented this week at the Gartner CSO and Sales Leader Conference in Las Vegas. … Read more
GrowthLoop released its 2026 AI and Marketing Performance Index on May 13, surveying more than 300 marketers and data leaders across the U.S. and Canada. The headline finding: only 23% of marketers can reliably connect their marketing actions to business outcomes. The pressure data is the more uncomfortable part. 89% of respondents say performance pressure … Read more
Ignite X, the San Francisco PR and AI-advisory agency, launched the Credibility Score on May 14, a first-of-a-kind diagnostic that rates B2B brands across six dimensions of how AI search engines perceive them. The scale runs 1 to 5 in each dimension for a 30-point total. Brands above 24 are consistently cited by ChatGPT, Claude, … Read more
Clutch shipped its AI Visibility Dashboard on May 5, becoming the first B2B services marketplace to give agencies a free, native view of how often ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini surface them in buyer-side queries. The tool sits inside the Vendor Dashboard under a new “AI Visibility” tab and is available to every provider listed … Read more
Adobe shipped its productivity agent on May 6, building Acrobat’s two decades of document intelligence into a single agentic interface that turns PDFs into shareable AI workspaces. The agent is now generally available inside two SKUs: Acrobat Studio (existing AI tier) and a new Acrobat Express tier that bundles AI document insights, premium content generation, … Read more
Outreach launched Omni, a conversational AI agent that runs across the seller, manager, and revenue-leader workflow, and Agent Studio, a no-code agent builder for RevOps, in its Spring 2026 release. Announced April 27, the release also marks the company’s rebrand from Outreach.io to Outreach.ai, a signal that the platform is being positioned as AI-native rather … Read more
Hightouch raised $150 million in Series D financing led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Bain Capital Ventures, reaching a $2.75 billion valuation, the company announced on April 27. The round, which also drew Iconiq, Sapphire, Amplify, Y Combinator, and The Trade Desk’s TD7 fund, more than doubles Hightouch’s valuation from its $1.2 billion Series C … Read more
Gartner says AI will automate 36% of marketing work by 2028, more than double the 16% marketing leaders report today, according to a survey released May 11 at Gartner Marketing Symposium/Xpo. The forecast lands a year after Salesforce, Anthropic, and OpenAI shipped agentic AI tooling that promised the same outcome and rarely delivered past 20%. … Read more
Twilio used its SIGNAL 2026 keynote on May 7 to move three capabilities out of private beta and into general availability: Conversation Memory, Conversation Orchestrator, and Conversation Intelligence. CEO Khozema Shipchandler framed the bundle as a single conversation layer, an infrastructure tier sitting between the underlying communication channels and the AI and human agents working … Read more
OpenAI opened ChatGPT Ads Manager to all U.S. businesses on May 5, ending the 600-advertiser pilot and adding the two missing pieces our earlier reporting flagged: a Conversions API and pixel-based tracking. The platform also expanded the ad pilot into five new countries (United Kingdom, Mexico, Japan, Brazil, South Korea) and named the agency partner … Read more
