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ICT industry specialist Gautam Mahajan estimates the AI sales assistant software market at USD 3.85 billion in 2026, with continued technology adoption expected to take the market to USD 26.09 billion by 2035 at a CAGR of 23.70%. Leading AI sales assistant software market providers such as Salesforce, Microsoft, HubSpot, Oracle, SAP are expanding their…

Williams‑Sonoma Inc. reported that its net revenue grew 6.7% year over year in its fiscal Q2, even as the housing market remained stubbornly stagnant. Along the way, the home furnishings retailer expanded its lineup of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered shopping tools, including a new assistant, Otto, on the Pottery Barn website.

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Instinct, the developer of an artificial intelligence assistant popular among Silicon Valley tech workers, is reportedly raising $250 million in funding.

27 August 2026UPDATED 19 MIN(s) •TECHNOLOGY Tech & Startup Desk Image for representative purpose. Photo: Yaroslav Shuraev/ Pexels

New AI Search, conversation insights and lead-capture capabilities are designed to help businesses remove friction between website traffic and customer action.

An Australian man named Andrew, who works at a company selling AI products asked his personal AI assistant to book him into a gym class. He was fourth on the waitlist. The agent, running on the open-source OpenClaw framework powered by Anthropic’s Claude, tried the front door, found it locked, and returned with a confession:…

Artificial intelligence should be a huge boon to the business intelligence software market, but companies are struggling to use decision-making tools because they are too complex

TL;DR — I replayed 27 real tasks from my own AI agent against two local models, one hardware upgrade apart, scoring both against the same frozen Claude baseline. On a single RTX 3090 capped at a 16K context, a 30B model scored 22.8/100 to Claude’s 89.4, and leaked malformed tool-call syntax into a quarter of…