conversational AI

Mercedes Hopes to Woo Motorists With In-Car Conversational AI 
Mercedes Hopes to Woo Motorists With In-Car Conversational AI 
November 05, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Mercedes-Benz believes there is a market for drivers who wish to talk to their cars. That’s the thinking behind the luxury car company’s effort to...

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Block’s Voice AI Wins Praise and Triggers Scam Concerns
Block’s Voice AI Wins Praise and Triggers Scam Concerns
October 25, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Payments company Block has introduced an artificial intelligence model trained solely using human conversation. Dessa, as the model is known, learned to hold real-time conversations...

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Square and Google Let Restaurants Offer Conversational AI Ordering
Square and Google Let Restaurants Offer Conversational AI Ordering
August 06, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Square has launched a new conversational AI restaurant offering in tandem with Google. This offering brings food and beverage sellers into Ask Maps, part of...

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BBVA Takes Its Banking Experience Into ChatGPT
BBVA Takes Its Banking Experience Into ChatGPT
May 18, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Most banks build an app and ask customers to come to them. BBVA is trying something different. The Spanish banking group launched a conversational app...

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Etsy Pilots Conversational AI to Ignite Marketplace Sales
Etsy Pilots Conversational AI to Ignite Marketplace Sales
May 05, 2026  |  eCommerce

Etsy is working to offer conversational search both in OpenAI’s ChatGPT and on its own platform. The company said in a Tuesday (May 5) blog...

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Amazon’s Alexa+ Adds Conversational Uber Eats and Grubhub Ordering
Amazon’s Alexa+ Adds Conversational Uber Eats and Grubhub Ordering
April 05, 2026  |  Retail

Amazon says it has given Alexa+ users new ways to order food from Uber Eats and Grubhub. “Imagine ordering delivery the same way you would...

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Chat-First Finance: Malaysia’s Ryt Bank Replaces Menus With AI
Chat-First Finance: Malaysia’s Ryt Bank Replaces Menus With AI
March 16, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Can banking be done through chat? Ryt Bank in Malaysia thinks so, and its chat-based artificial intelligence (AI) system now processes about 80,000 transactions a...

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Hello Patient Raises $22.5 Million for Conversational AI Patient Engagement Platform
Hello Patient Raises $22.5 Million for Conversational AI Patient Engagement Platform
September 11, 2025  |  Healthcare

Hello Patient raised $22.5 million in a Series A funding round to continue to expand the capabilities and reach of its conversational artificial intelligence-powered patient...

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OpenAI Chair’s Conversational AI Startup Raises $350 Million
OpenAI Chair’s Conversational AI Startup Raises $350 Million
September 05, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Sierra, a conversational artificial intelligence startup founded by OpenAI Chair Bret Taylor and former Google executive Clay Bavor, has raised $350 million in new funding...

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