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Discover the measurable impacts of AI agents for customer support

How Did Papaya Slash Support Costs Without Adding Headcount?

When Papaya saw support tickets surge, they faced a tough choice: hire more agents or risk slower service. Instead, they found a third option—one that scaled their support without scaling their team.

The secret? An AI-powered support agent from Maven AGI that started resolving customer inquiries on day one.

With Maven AGI, Papaya now handles 90% of inquiries automatically - cutting costs in half while improving response times and customer satisfaction. No more rigid decision trees. No more endless manual upkeep. Just fast, accurate answers at scale.

The best part? Their human team is free to focus on the complex, high-value issues that matter most.

👉 Curious how they did it? Read the full case study to learn how Papaya transformed their customer support

Bible Verses of the Day

21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. 23 I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. [Philippians 1:21-23, ESV]

What's in this week's issue?

• 🚕 Waymos stalled, confused in San Francisco as people climb, flip off from robotaxis

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• 💫 Christian Business Spotlight

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A crowded and chaotic scene in San Francisco's Marina District is raising new questions and concerns about autonomous vehicles and how people are interacting with them. Cellphone video captured a man jumping off a Waymo car at Fillmore and Greenwich streets as people in the crowd cheered him on. At one point, three Waymos were all stalled, seemingly confused.

Selika Josiah Talbott, a transportation mobility policy expert and former federal advisor with decades of leadership shaping autonomous vehicle regulation, finds this sort of behavior shocking and horrifying.

"One of the things that is happening is here is we're teaching artificial intelligence that people are dangerous. We're teaching artificial intelligence that people are harmful, and that's not what we want," said Talbott. Read more 

AI News

• 🪓 Salesforce cut 4,000 customer support roles after deploying AI agents (link)

• 👩 Karen Hao on the making of a $90B AI empire (link)

• 👓️ These 20- and 22-year-olds raised $5M from YC, General Catalyst to study online behavior using vision AI (link)

• 🇨🇭 Switzerland releases its own AI model trained on public data (link)

• 🤖 Humanoid robot receptionist greets leaders from Russia, China, India at SCO summit (link)

Listen or read the following transcript as Sinclair Ferguson speaks on the topic of the Person of Christ from Daniel 7.

The following unedited transcript is provided by Beluga AI.

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