Lokam.ai, a new, voice-first, AI-powered sales and service platform built for dealerships and backed by its first customer, World Auto Group, is now online. +
A new, three-day event designed for dealer agents seeking AI mastery and lucrative new partnerships will kick off on Sept. 9 at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center. +
A Carleton survey of consumer finance executives finds 87% are in the process of modernizing aging legacy systems and only 8.7% have finished. +
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order establishing federal regulatory oversight of advanced AI, establishing a 30-day government review period for “frontier” models. +
Klarna’s Pay in Full, Pay in 4 and longer-term financing solutions are now available to dealers using Tekion’s AI-powered service scheduling platform. +
CarEdge’s Zach Shefska takes readers inside the live test of 100 dealerships that proved AI is critical to engaging car shoppers — and giving them an accurate price — in real time. +
700Credit’s credit reports, soft pull prequalification capabilities and compliance tools are now available via Verifacto’s AI-powered deal management platform. +
President Donald Trump called off an executive order establishing constraints on AI hours before a signing ceremony, fearing it would affect America’s competitive advantage. +
Car Wars has integrated its AI-powered Cari Scheduler with UpdatePromise’s service scheduling and communications platform for franchised dealerships. +
Impel announced an industry-first pairing of AI-generated videos with AI sales agents, delivering introductions and ongoing conversations at any hour. +
