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Washington proposed an in-call AI disclosure rule in 2024 and never finished it. California and Utah did not wait, and their triggers are different. Here is where the disclosure belongs in a call, and what your dialer has to log to prove it happened.

The Senate passed S.2666 on 3 August 2026. It targets foreign robocall gateways, but it lifts the compliance bar for every legitimate auto dialer too.

All 50 state and territory attorneys general asked the FCC to make originating carriers understand their customers’ business, not just verify their identity. Legitimate outbound teams are the ones who will have to answer.

A student loan servicer agreed to pay three million dollars over prerecorded calls that reached the wrong people. Consent was valid when it was collected. The numbers changed hands and nothing in the dialing stack noticed. Here is where the check belongs.

Branded calling reached public beta in Canada, Germany and the UK, with Q1 2026 data showing an 80.6 percent answer rate for branded calls against 65.2 percent unbranded. The catch is that none of your STIR/SHAKEN work carries over.

One ‘stop’ now revokes consent across every campaign and channel, and the FCC’s limited waiver on cross-channel scope is temporary. Here’s the opt-out architecture your auto dialer needs before the waiver expires.

What the 2026 TCPA changes mean for auto dialers: business-specific consent, DNC scrubbing, real-time opt-out, and the new AI-voice robocall rule.

Legitimate outbound routed through small carriers gets B/C attestation and lands as ‘Spam Likely’. Here’s why the gap exists and how to fix it in 2026.

Branded, authenticated calls get answered around 62 percent of the time versus 20 percent unbranded. Here is the signal stack that decides your connect rate.

Calls that are not signed at full attestation now get filtered as spam, crushing answer rates. Here is how to keep an open source auto dialer connecting in 2026.

Predictive dialing is a balancing act between agent idle time and abandoned calls. Here is how pacing actually works and how to tune it without crossing compliance lines.