Zoho People launched its 5.0 version, introducing new features and capabilities to support HR teams in their strategies.

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Level 3 system-generated conversations utilize AI to handle complex customer interactions like product inquiries, troubleshooting, and approvals. These virtual agents mimic human interactions, summarizing conversations, updating systems, and adapting to individual situations.

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The number of short video app users in China has decreased by 300 million since December 2023, reaching 1.05 billion in June. This marks a slowdown in the growth of the market, which had seen steady increases in recent years.

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The U.S. has imposed sanctions on an Iranian and a Russian entity for attempting to interfere in the 2024 elections. The Iranian entity is a subordinate organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the Russian entity is an affiliate of Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU. These actors aimed to create socio-political tensions and influence the U.S. electorate.

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WWT acquires Canadian IT provider Softchoice for C$1.8 billion in an all-cash deal, pending shareholder and court approval.

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In 2024, 18 organizations surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 model in the Chatbot Arena Leaderboard, breaking the barrier of building a model as good as GPT-4.

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The US Treasury was hit by a cyberattack in December, attributed to Chinese government hackers, who gained access to unclassified documents and Treasury employee workstations.

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