Meta expands AI customer support to WhatsApp Business for small firms in India
The company says “Business AI” will help eligible merchants answer questions 24/7, capture leads, book appointments, and, soon, support payments in-chat via UPI.
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The company says “Business AI” will help eligible merchants answer questions 24/7, capture leads, book appointments, and, soon, support payments in-chat via UPI.
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As AI workloads strain memory bandwidth and energy efficiency, Intel’s advanced packaging strategy is turning interconnect design inside the package into a central lever of performance. In a new interview, Intel Fellow Ravi Mahajan describes how EMIB’s “embedded silicon bridge” emerged and why packaging is now shaping architectures, not just supporting chips.
The company says it will expand cross-industry scam disruption, add a ticket-safety reminder for searches and groups, and roll out additional moderation tools aimed at players, teams, and public figures.
The company highlighted Intel Core Ultra Series 3 adoption in a multi-agent retail robot, and launched OpenVINO Physical AI to reduce the integration work needed to deploy physical AI fleets.
The CRM and enterprise AI company plans a Paris AI Innovation Hub, workforce and philanthropy programs, and continued growth of its Agentforce platform across French customers and partners.
The deal, announced June 1, 2026, is expected to close in Salesforce fiscal 2027’s third quarter, pending regulatory approvals. Salesforce says Contentful will help it assemble personalized customer experiences across channels with less content fragmentation.
A new NVIDIA developer blueprint and partner announcements highlight how banks and payments companies are trying to replace fragmented AI systems with transformer-based models trained on proprietary payment and behavioral histories.
At the Computex keynote in Taipei, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan used the five-plus decade legacy of x86 to frame a renewed push across client chips, edge deployments, and rackscale AI infrastructure, highlighting products built on Intel 18A and partnerships aimed at changing inference economics.
The company says new age-gating controls, developed with parent feedback and stress-tested by an external safety evaluator, are rolling out beyond early pilot countries, alongside experiments to prevent teens from repeatedly seeing the same types of content.