August 2026

Gen Z perspectives: Local flavours, AI watermarks and Instagram's new look

Gen Z perspectives: Local flavours, AI watermarks and Instagram’s new look

Happy Friday, MARKETING-INTERACTIVE readers and welcome back to Gen Z Perspectives, your go-to feature where we unpack the week’s top stories and trending topics through the eyes of Gen Z. From the biggest industry moves to viral moments and marketing controversies worth dissecting, we’re bringing the heat with authenticity, awareness and probably a few unfiltered…

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The 24-Hour Customer Is Here And Most Businesses Aren't Ready For Them

The 24-Hour Customer Is Here And Most Businesses Aren’t Ready For Them

VMPLNew Delhi [India], August 20: Customer expectations are changing. People increasingly expect businesses to respond quickly, directly and on the channel already in their hands. According to WhatsApp’s 2026 State of Business Messaging report, a Meta commissioned Kantar study across 22 global markets including India, 69% of consumers consider waiting on hold a waste of…

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NEC to Launch Business Automation AI on Microsoft Platform, Japan Rollout from August — BigGo Finance

NEC to Launch Business Automation AI on Microsoft Platform, Japan Rollout from August — BigGo Finance

NEC to Launch Business Automation AI on Microsoft Platform, Japan Rollout from August Add to Google Preferred Sources NEC announced on the 18th that it will begin selling its business automation AI agent “NEC cotomi Agent” through Microsoft Marketplace starting in August. The system automatically extracts browser operations and system usage history into data, allowing…

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Top 10 Open-Source Benchmarks for AI Coding Agents in 2026 - KDnuggets

Top 10 Open-Source Benchmarks for AI Coding Agents in 2026 – KDnuggets

For years, coding benchmarks mostly measured one thing: could a model write a function that passed the unit tests? While that was useful, it doesn’t reflect the reality of software engineering. Modern agentic coding benchmarks evaluate whether AI agents can work inside real repositories, edit existing code, run tests and other commands, debug failures, and…

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