Google I/O 2026: Information Agents Hit B2B Vendor Search
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…
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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…
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…
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:…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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.…
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…
AWS opened a preview of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments on May 7, built jointly with Coinbase and Stripe and aimed at a specific problem: most AI agents today…