F&I Manager AI was designed to help complete checklists and flag missing documents and potential compliance issues, reducing funding delays and improving deal workflow consistency. +
Spyne and Cox Automotive have joined forces to automate CRM updates with real-time data generated by Vini AI’s sales and service calling, chat, scheduling and follow-up communication suite. +
CarChat24’s new toolkit was designed to help dealers convert shoppers into buyers with enhanced visitor engagement, lead qualification and response workflows. +
BMW Toronto made headlines for honoring its AI agent’s overly generous offer for a customer-owned X3. CarBuzz’s Ian Wright blames misplaced trust in technology for the $7,000 error. +
A new ebook details Launch Labs research that finds traditional marketing and analytics tools fail to recognize up to 85% of dealer website visitors. +
Zurich Advisor IQ was designed to record, monitor and analyze F&I conversations and deliver transaction insights in as little as 15 minutes. +
QoreAI’s unified data infrastructure platform was purpose-built for automotive retail and features Lokam.ai as its first native agentic application partner. +
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 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. +
