Artificio Products has launched its newest innovation: AI Generative Forms, a groundbreaking feature that instantly creates sophisticated, context-aware data submission forms—many so complex and adaptive that they’d be nearly impossible for humans to design manually. This feature leverages Artificio’s proprietary generative artificial intelligence to create dynamic form structures, including intricate branches, validations, and conditional logic that surpass traditional design limits. Key Differentiators & Benefits: Instant Form Creation: Transform concepts into fully functional forms within moments, dramatically reducing development time from days to seconds; Humanly Unfeasible Complexity: Generates deeply adaptive forms with sophisticated logic and branching that manual design could not realistically handle; Scalable Across Industries: Ideally suited for regulated sectors including finance, insurance, healthcare, and government, where complex data workflows are essential; Consistent & Error-Minimized: Built-in AI logic ensures form integrity and business-rule compliance from creation; Intelligent Automation: Forms automatically adapt based on user responses, creating personalized experiences; Enterprise-Grade Security: Maintains highest standards of data protection and compliance requirements. The technology has significant implications across multiple sectors: Healthcare: Streamlining patient intake processes, medical history collection, and treatment workflow management; Financial Services: Automating loan applications, compliance documentation, and risk assessment forms; Government: Enhancing citizen service delivery through intelligent application processing; Insurance: Optimizing claims processing and policy application workflows; Education: Improving student enrollment and administrative processes.
Qualified unveils a video‑avatar sales superagent that carries context across web and email, monitors intent signals, and engages leads throughout the funnel with configurable guardrails
Qualified.com Inc. unveiled new capabilities for its AI sales development representative that evolve it into a sales “superagent.” The new features enable it to conduct face-to-face conversations via a digital human avatar and carry context over between website interactions and email responses. The company said the update expands the agent’s scope to cover every stage of the lead nurturing process from qualifying inbound leads to managing prospects across the sales funnel. Chief Marketing Officer Maura Rivera described the highlight of the new feature set as the video avatar called “Piper” that “looks like a human and sounds like a human.” The AI agent is now also able to engage prospects earlier in the sales cycle than previous versions, which were oriented mostly toward likely buyers. Piper’s avatar is based on a Qualified staffer named Blake, who was the company’s highest-performing sales representative. Qualified recorded Blake in a studio and trained the underlying generative AI model on an assortment of sales material and best practices. Customers can use Qualified’s default personas or create their own with a studio session and retrieval augmented generation training. The service currently integrates directly only with Salesforce Inc.’s customer relationship management system but has more than 30 connections to go-to-market systems and email-engagement tools such as those from Outreach Corp. and Salesloft Inc. Qualified combines OpenAI’s commercial large-language-model inputs with its own training, orchestration and integrations. Customers can customize the agent with their collateral, website content, case studies and guardrails so it hews to approved messaging and avoids topics such as pricing unless configured otherwise.
Apple News+ interactive game challenges users to guess movie titles, popular phrases, or news headlines using emojis as clues
Apple News+ has introduced the ‘Emoji Game’, an interactive game designed to entertain users while they read news. The game challenges users to guess movie titles, popular phrases, or news headlines using emojis as clues. The casual and fun game enhances user retention and encourages subscribers to spend more time within the app. Apple News+ aims to differentiate itself by blending informative content with interactive features, aligning with its strategy to make news consumption more dynamic, personalized, and enjoyable. The game appeals to a broad audience, including news junkies and casual users who appreciate gamified content. Since its launch, the game has garnered positive reactions from subscribers, with social media buzz indicating growing enthusiasm for the feature. Apple plans to expand the game’s content themes and introduce new challenges, seasonal puzzles, and reward systems to maintain subscriber interest.
Gemini drag handle overlay brings back shortcut to open full app on Android
After removing earlier this year, the Gemini overlay on Android is bringing back a shortcut to quickly open the full app. It takes the form of a drag handle at the top of the Gemini overlay. Just swipe up and let go to open the Gemini app for chat history, Gems, and settings. The full prompt bar lets you access the Video, Deep Research, and Canvas chips. The ‘plus’ menu is the same, though the design differs. (Last week, Gemini on the web gained an “Image: Generate with Imagen” chip. It’s not available on mobile yet.) Google last updated the overlay in January, with the previous design being taller. This shortcut saves you from having to place the app icon on your homescreen. This overlay shortcut to access the full Gemini app is widely rolling out with version 16.27 (stable) and 16.28 (beta) of the Google app. Force stop if you’re not seeing it yet. It follows the Gemini overlay going right-aligned on tablets and foldables with the launch of Samsung’s latest devices. Meanwhile, we’re still waiting for Google to widely roll out the four-color glow.
Kantar launches ExperienceEvaluator to help brands fast-track CX improvements using direct customer feedback from Kantar’s high-quality, privacy-compliant consumer access panels
Kantar, a marketing data and analytics company, has launched ExperienceEvaluator, a cost-effective Customer Experience (CX) solution that enables brands to benchmark and optimize customer experiences, accelerate business growth, and ultimately win against competition. The solution delivers results in as few as four days, allowing CX teams to quickly evaluate how audiences react, engage, and connect with brands. It uses direct customer feedback from Kantar’s high-quality, privacy-compliant consumer access panels, allowing clients to analyze what is influencing people’s experiences, pinpoint areas for improvement, and prioritize next steps based on data-driven insights. ExperienceEvaluator is available on Kantar Marketplace, Kantar’s agile market research platform, making it easier and more cost-effective for CX teams to continuously refine and enhance their offerings in response to customer feedback. Kantar’s proprietary Meaningfully Different Experiences (MDX) methodology links strong consumer experience to measurable business outcomes such as increased market share, reduced churn, higher pricing power, and stronger customer retention.
Now, with Plaid Layer natively integrated into its platform, fintech MANTL can provide a one-minute account opening time for its deposit and loan workflows
MANTL is the first fintech to resell and offer Plaid Layer, Plaid’s instant onboarding technology used by the most innovative neobanks. Through this first-of-its-kind integration, MANTL empowers regional and community financial institutions to deliver the same seamless digital onboarding experiences as tech-first neobanks while unlocking faster growth and stronger conversion. MANTL already delivers a best-in-class account opening experience, with average account opening times of under five minutes for consumers and under ten minutes for businesses. Now, with Plaid Layer natively integrated into its platform, MANTL can provide a one-minute account opening time. By embedding Plaid’s technology directly into its deposit and loan workflows, MANTL streamlines the entire onboarding process, accelerating time to open and enabling more users to successfully reach and complete applications—all within a secure, optimized experience. Key benefits of the MANTL–Plaid Layer integration include: Increase in conversion: Plaid customers using Layer have seen up to a 25% increase in end-to-end conversion rates. Faster onboarding: Layer can onboard an account holder in one minute by unifying the collection of identity data for verification and account linking into one conversion-optimized flow, streamlining the signup process by as much as 87%. Secure, scalable growth: MANTL paired with Plaid Layer unlocks an even more seamless, secure, and scalable path to customer growth.
With Perplexity’s new web browser a user can directly ask Comet which website provides the ability to ship something they need faster than others; it can also connect the dots and submit relevant responses to different types of questions after assessing multi-site information on its own
Perplexity recently announced the launch of Comet, a web browser built for the modern internet which, aims to be a more responsive and fluid option for modern internet users. Comet, serves to be an intelligent interface that works in tune with the user’s mind. It helps ease the challenges of switching between dozens of sites, applications and website to create a more seamless experience. The Comet intelligent assistant allows a user to focus on what really matters while taking care of actual browsing sessions. For instance, a user can directly ask Comet which website provides the ability to ship something they need faster than others. It can also connect the dots and submit relevant responses to different types of questions after assessing multi-site information on its own. Comet does away with complex workflows. Instead of simply searching for information, Comet allows users quick analysis at their fingertips and makes the internet an extension of their mind. One of the best things about Comet: accurate and trustworthy responses. Comet allows users to do a range of things at a faster pace than before, from compare insurance coverage plans to analyzing which technology is best to invest in for a business.
Kantar’s solution enables brands to benchmark and optimize customer experiences by analyzing factors influencing customer engagement and reaction using direct customer feedback from high-quality, privacy-compliant consumer access panels
Kantar, a leading marketing data and analytics company, has launched ExperienceEvaluator, a cost-effective Customer Experience (CX) solution that enables brands to benchmark and optimize customer experiences, accelerate business growth, and ultimately win against competition. The solution delivers results in as few as four days, allowing CX teams to quickly evaluate how audiences react, engage, and connect with brands. It uses direct customer feedback from Kantar’s high-quality, privacy-compliant consumer access panels to analyze what is influencing people’s experiences, pinpoint areas for improvement, and prioritize next steps based on data-driven insights. ExperienceEvaluator is available on Kantar Marketplace, Kantar’s agile market research platform, and is built on Kantar’s proprietary Meaningfully Different Experiences (MDX) methodology. MDX links strong consumer experience to measurable business outcomes such as increased market share, reduced churn, higher pricing power, and stronger customer retention. Kantar’s CEO Amy Cashman emphasizes the importance of customer experience in achieving business growth. Global telco giant Orange is using Kantar’s MDX metrics to demonstrate the positive business impact of its relationship CX programs.
OpenAI’s Chromium-based AI browser to likely include a chat-style assistant that can perform complex tasks on behalf of the user in click-free mode and an agentic AI to handle multistep tasks across the web that lets users delegate responsibilities
OpenAI is reportedly close to releasing a browser that could potentially take on Google LLC’s market dominance with its Chrome browser, several months after the company said that it would be interested in buying Chrome from Google. The browser is slated to be launched in the coming weeks and uses artificial intelligence to fundamentally change how consumers browse the web. Notably, the browser would also give OpenAI direct access to user data, which it could use to train its models. The browser is expected to be built on Chromium, the open-source codebase that underpins Chrome and most other browsers except Firefox, but with AI tightly integrated into the user experience. The OpenAI browser is said to include a chat-style assistant that can perform complex tasks on behalf of the user, such as summarizing pages, autofilling forms, booking travel or completing online purchases, without requiring users to click through websites manually, instead of simply serving as a traditional interface for web navigation. Where things could get particularly interesting is that the browser may include OpenAI’s Operator agent, an agentic AI offering designed to handle multistep tasks across the web, allowing users to delegate responsibilities such as scheduling appointments or ordering food to an AI agent. Its inclusion could turn the browser into more than just a gateway to the internet versus a fully capable assistant embedded directly in the browsing environment. The move could place OpenAI in direct competition with Google on multiple fronts, not only in search but also in advertising and data collection.
Microsoft’s Edge browser claims it can load websites faster now- First Contentful Paint (FCP) takes less than 300 milliseconds to start rendering the first parts of a website—whether it’s text, images, or interface components
Microsoft is introducing its Edge browser to users who are tired of Google Chrome’s memory and space consumption. Edge now loads websites faster than before, allowing users to see text and images load on the webpage. Microsoft has been accused of not giving Edge the momentum to load pages faster, as industry standards suggest any loading time beyond 300 ms is not ideal for users. The new-gen browser with Copilot support has dramatically reduced load times by an average of 40% across features like read aloud, split screen, and workspaces. Microsoft has shared details about the upgrade and even the Settings page on Edge now loads faster, giving people good reasons to consider the Microsoft browser for their daily use. While Chrome has an assailable lead with over 68% market share, Edge is used by less than 5% of users worldwide. Microsoft hopes Edge can become a strong challenger to Google’s superiority in the near future.