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What's new at Dialpad: September 2026

Dialpad and Glean Announce Integration for Conversation Insights

Dialpad announced a new integration with enterprise AI company Glean that brings Dialpad’s conversational intelligence (voice and text, AI and human) into Glean’s enterprise knowledge platform. Dialpad has joined the Glean Partner Network and will demo the integration at Glean:GO 2026. The integration is intended to make customer conversations discoverable and actionable alongside documents, systems and workflows, enabling in-call assistance, richer context for sales and service, improved QA and faster post-call follow-up.

• Dialpad announced a new integration with enterprise AI company Glean to connect conversational intelligence with enterprise knowledge.
• Dialpad joined the newly launched Glean Partner Network.
• The integration will be demoed at Glean:GO 2026.

July 2026 Product Roundup

Dialpad's July 2026 release includes real-time voicemail reports, live call volume tracking, repeated admin alerts, calendar event deletion in WFM, new CTI call bar, AthenaHealth integration, custom Professional Services integrations, Salesforce verification, Bullhorn admin controls, reduced Salesforce API usage, license pools, company-level credit pooling, enhanced credits page, credits analytics, multi-screen sharing, dual-screen meeting rooms, Picture-in-Picture, and more.

LivePerson has been acquired by SoundHound AI, creating a world-leading Omnichannel Conversational AI powerhouse.

A banner on the LivePerson blog announces that LivePerson has been acquired by SoundHound AI, creating a world-leading Omnichannel Conversational AI powerhouse, with a link to the SoundHound newsroom announcement.

SoundHound AI Completes LivePerson Acquisition

SoundHound AI has finalized its acquisition of LivePerson, a deal first announced in April 2026 with an implied enterprise value of $250 million, and completed on September 4, 2026. The merger combines SoundHound's voice agentic AI with LivePerson's digital messaging infrastructure to create a unified omnichannel conversational AI platform, integrated into SoundHound's OASYS system. The combined entity now serves 25 of the Fortune 100 and holds over 750 patents. John Collins has been appointed CFO. LivePerson's debt was retired at closing, leaving a debt-free balance sheet. SoundHound projects over $500 million in future revenue from existing customers, citing Gartner's forecast of $985 billion in enterprise agentic AI software spending by 2030.

• SoundHound AI completed its acquisition of LivePerson on September 4, 2026.
• The deal was announced in April 2026 with an implied enterprise value of $250 million.
• John Collins was appointed as the new CFO of the combined company.

8-K Financial Filing Analysis for LivePerson

Am 2. Juli 2026 hat LivePerson, Inc. einen geänderten und neu gefassten Fusionsvertrag (Amended and Restated Merger Agreement) mit SoundHound AI, Inc. geschlossen, welcher die ursprüngliche Übernahmevereinbarung vom 21. April 2026 anpasst. Die Änderung strukturiert die Transaktion in eine zweistufige Fusion um, um israelische Prospektpflichten zu umgehen, die andernfalls die Hauptversammlung und den Vollzug um mehrere Monate verzögert hätten. Inhaber von über das Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Clearing House gehaltenen Aktien (TASE Shares) erhalten nun eine auf 7,5 Mio. USD gedeckelte Barkomponente anstelle von SoundHound Class A Common Stock, während die übrigen Stammaktionäre weiterhin Aktien auf Basis eines Gesamtkaufpreises von rund 42,78 Mio. USD (bereinigt um Liquiditätsfehlbeträge) erhalten.

• Ändert die Gegenleistung für über die Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) gehaltene Aktien von SoundHound-Aktien in eine Barkomponente mit einer Gesamtobergrenze von 7.500.000 USD, um regulatorische Verzögerungen zu vermeiden.
• Behält den Basis-Gesamtkaufpreis von 42.784.532,64 USD bei, bereinigt um Liquiditätsabzüge bezogen auf eine Mindestliquidität von 74 Mio. USD (bzw. 71 Mio. USD bei Vollzug im Juli 2026).
• Sieht einen Collar für den SoundHound-Aktienkurs zwischen 7,00 USD und 12,00 USD (10-Tage-VWAP) vor und behält eine Kündigungsgebühr (Termination Fee) von 5,0 Mio. USD zuzüglich Auslagenerstattung von bis zu 3,75 Mio. USD bei.