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Uniphore Launches Marketing AI

Uniphore announced Marketing AI, a new enterprise marketing product that builds per-customer "living digital twins" using fine-tuned small language models (SLMs). The system simulates marketing outcomes and predicts revenue before campaigns run, continuously learning by comparing predicted vs. actual results to retrain customer models. Marketing AI emphasizes "Sovereign AI": open-weight models fine-tuned on an enterprise's own data and deployable in cloud, on-premises or hybrid environments to meet GDPR, HIPAA and data residency requirements. The launch positions Uniphore as extending its composable CDP capabilities into an intelligence layer; the company was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Customer Data Platforms. Quotes from Uniphore's CEO Umesh Sachdev and industry analysts (IDC, Atlassian) are included.

Chinese Tech Increasingly Adopted by Global Companies

Global companies are increasingly integrating Chinese technology across sectors including AI, electric-vehicle batteries and automotive software despite rising geopolitical tensions. Apple uses Alibaba and Baidu for AI in China, Ford works with CATL on lithium‑iron phosphate batteries at a $3.5 billion Michigan plant, and auto partnerships like Volkswagen‑Xpeng and Stellantis‑Leapmotor reflect deeper supply‑chain and innovation ties. Analysts cite China’s scale, manufacturing depth and innovation speed as drivers, while U.S. restrictions on advanced chips and select firms (e.g., SMIC) and national‑security concerns limit adoption in sensitive areas. Adoption will vary by sector, with batteries and electronics already structural, AI in transition, and automotive software earlier in the shift.

Kyndryl Launches Agentic Modernization Services-as-Software

Kyndryl announced Agentic Modernization services-as-software, built on its Agentic AI Framework and scaled via Kyndryl Bridge. The offering codifies Kyndryl’s engineering expertise and partner capabilities into pre-defined agentic workflows designed to accelerate enterprise modernization, reduce risk, and maintain governance and cost visibility. Kyndryl Bridge — launched in 2022 and used by more than 1,400 customers — is presented as the foundation for deploying, orchestrating, and governing agentic workflows and AI agents across hybrid IT estates. The announcement includes customer examples of legacy code refactoring, mainframe-to-cloud modernization, and deployment across global engineering teams.