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AI Must Deliver Business Outcomes, Not Just Automation: Revspot CEO

Enterprises have spent years investing in customer relationship management (CRM) platforms, marketing automation, customer data tools and, more recently, AI assistants. Yet many still struggle to turn customer inquiries into actual sales.

The problem is particularly visible in high-ticket B2C sectors such as real estate, education and financial services, where businesses spend heavily to attract potential buyers but often lose opportunities between the first inquiry and the final sale.

For Bengaluru-based Revspot, the challenge is not generating more leads. It is identifying which customers are genuinely interested and ensuring sales teams reach them at the right time.

The startup, which raised $4.8 million in Series A funding in July 2026, is building an AI-powered orchestration platform called Spot to connect lead generation, qualification, customer engagement and sales handoffs.

In one real estate deployment, Revspot says its lead-to-qualified-lead ratio increased from approximately 9% to 25% within three months, while the sales...

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Anthropic Hands Over Agent Skills: What IT Teams Should Know

Anthropic is handing its AI agent playbook to an industry foundation, betting that shared standards will help software agents work across competing platforms. The company announced Oct. 22 that it is donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a Linux Foundation organization it co-founded with Block and OpenAI.

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Will Your iPhone or Android Change Time on Nov. 1? Check These Settings Before Sunday - TechRepublic

Your phone should turn back the clock automatically on Nov. 1. But in some parts of North America, doing so would leave it an hour behind. Daylight saving time ends Sunday, Nov. 1, 2026, across most of the United States, with clocks moving back one hour at 2 a.m.

SIMBA Could Lose Singapore Telecom Licence: What Customers Should Know - TechRepublic

Singapore’s SIMBA Telecom could lose its operating licence after regulators alleged that senior management approved the unauthorised use of mobile network frequencies. The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) issued a notice to show cause on October 23, according to an October 26 disclosure by SIMBA’s Australian parent, Tuas

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Block Previews Dessa Voice AI Trained Without Text

Jack Dorsey’s Block is previewing a voice AI model that could change how businesses build conversational interfaces, though its reliability remains to be demonstrated beyond company-selected examples. Block has introduced Dessa, an experimental AI voice model trained entirely on recordings of human conversations, without written text or pretrained models.

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