113 articles tagged with “automation”.
AWS walks through building a no-code fraud detection model by connecting SageMaker Canvas to Snowflake and training XGBoost without writing ML code.
Meta has launched a new Mac app that utilizes its Muse Spark model to enable voice dictation, improving user interaction with applications.
An examination of how airlines can use market models to price complex, multi-connection journeys by weighing many variables including demand, season, and competitor activity.
Binance has introduced Agent OS, enabling AI agents to trade while placing responsibility for keeping them in check largely on users.
An AWS blog post describes three serverless patterns for asynchronously calling Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents from AWS Step Functions pipelines to avoid idle compute costs.
As AI becomes harder to avoid, consumer wariness is rising, showing that wide adoption does not necessarily translate into acceptance.
AWS has made Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments generally available, enabling AI agents to autonomously transact at scale with built-in spending guardrails and observability.
Jumio built a centralized, real-time feature store on AWS delivering sub-100ms feature serving for fraud detection while saving roughly $120,000 annually.
Asana reported using OpenAI Codex to replace an outdated testing system in two weeks, work it had expected to take five years, at a cost of roughly $12K.
Anthropic has reported a significant increase of $18 billion in its annualized revenue within a short two-month window, reflecting robust growth.
Relay, a business workflow automation startup, will cease operations next month, while its CEO and part of its team join Google's Chrome team.
AWS explains how to give autonomous OpenClaw agents a wallet with spending guardrails, connecting them to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments and the x402 protocol via the aws-agents-pay plugin.
OpenAI's ChatGPT desktop app on macOS introduces Computer History, an opt-in feature that turns user activity into a timeline ChatGPT and Codex can reference to suggest automations and resume tasks.
Sheets canvas enables users to create interactive dashboards, study trackers, and seating charts from spreadsheet data using easy prompts.
AWS describes a reference architecture for automating legacy web applications using the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool and Strands Agents, with isolated browser sessions and human oversight.
This blog post details how to develop a multi-agent system for M&A due diligence using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, including architecture and deployment.
Amazon Quick is now available inside Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, adding connected data access and agentic document editing within Microsoft 365 apps.
Google introduced the Pixel 11 lineup and a new competitor to AirTag, alongside exciting Gemini features at the Made by Google 2026 event.
SpaceXAI introduced Grok Bot, an always-on AI agent that can sign into apps and tools to complete multi-step work tasks, returning only when finished or when approval is needed.
Saber's CEO denies replacing writers with AI on the Rideshare 'Stimulator' game, contradicting a former lead writer who says she was replaced by ChatGPT.
Pixieset built an AI-generated alt text feature on Amazon Bedrock, shipping it to millions of users in four months and reaching 35% adoption by automating image SEO work.
First Orion adopted Amazon Nova Act for QA automation, replacing brittle selector-based test code with plain-English test descriptions to speed up cycles and catch regressions sooner.
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar shares five lessons on building an AI-native finance function, including automated forecasting, stronger controls, and measuring AI ROI.
nOps moved its Clara FinOps AI agent from a self-managed EKS stack to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, reducing time-to-production by 75% while improving response quality.
Google introduces new AI tools aimed at streamlining marketing processes through improved features in Google Ads and Google Analytics.
Model ML applies OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol to carry out finance work, spanning research and analysis and producing editable, traceable PowerPoint and Excel outputs.
Ford is rolling out an AI-powered chatbot in its Ford and Lincoln apps that answers vehicle-specific questions such as fuel levels, cargo capacity, and towing limits.
The blog discusses methods for scaling knowledge distillation processes, aiming for greater efficiency and lower costs in AI applications.
Rippling introduced AI Spend Console, a product for tracking AI spending across individual employees and teams, prompted by its own high AI costs.
TReNDS, a Georgia State University research center, built an agentic AI pipeline on Amazon Bedrock and the Strands Agents SDK that investigates production errors in real time.
Cloudflare has introduced Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents rather than human users, aimed at helping developers build browser-based automation more efficiently.
Airbnb reports that AI is helping it ship features more quickly, and the company is testing a new AI-powered search function accessible through a toggle.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore introduces temporal policies, stateful rules that evaluate agent authorization using session history to enforce workflow sequencing and require approvals.
OpenAI has announced that free users of ChatGPT will now have access to unlimited text chats and a new functionality called the 'think button' for complex queries.
Google Maps is adding agentic capabilities, including food ordering and hotel bookings, as Google works to turn the app into an assistant for real-world tasks.
Mobileye deployed an AI agentic support solution on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, using a hybrid architecture to connect on-premises systems with AWS cloud while maintaining governance and security.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness is generally available and can be added as an agent step in n8n workflows through a new open-source community node.
Reddit is introducing Rules Hub, a suite of LLM-powered moderation tools that let mods automate rule enforcement, with expanded access now and a full launch planned later this year.
Hark has previewed a browser use agent for completing tasks, saying it is faster and cheaper than competing products.
AWS details an automated pipeline that monitors RSS feeds, renders web pages, and makes AI-extracted insights searchable using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and related services.
Google AI has announced a series of updates regarding their advancements in AI technologies as of July 2026.
The article discusses the impact of AI protectionism on the nascent humanoid robotics industry, highlighting the challenges these robots face.
Formula 1 worked with AWS to build a Data Accelerator using agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, reducing data source onboarding from up to eight weeks to roughly 40 minutes.
According to House spending records, OpenAI's ChatGPT is the most-used paid AI tool among congressional offices, applied to drafting memos, summarizing legislation, and constituent communications.
June has emerged from stealth with a $20 million pre-seed round, positioning itself to make AI adoption and deployment simpler for organizations.
Reddit reports positive financial results amid growing concerns about its AI-related challenges and relationship with Google.
LinkedIn is rolling out a reporting option for low-quality AI-generated posts and is swapping its AI writing feature for a proofreading tool.
Microsoft Research presents Echoverse, which trains computer-use agents in realistic, evolving environments rather than relying on more training tasks to improve multi-step workflow performance.
Enterprises are competing to hire forward-deployed engineers, with a new study estimating only 2,000 U.S. engineers have the expertise to deliver meaningful AI ROI at scale.
Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, is a new startup offering an AI assistant for homeowners that unifies property records, maintenance schedules, and home documents in a single app.
AWS describes how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore delivers autonomous business intelligence across systems through configuration, using MCP server connectors, access control, and persistent memory.
AWS outlines how to build a no-code customer retention workflow in Amazon Quick that flags at-risk customers from call transcripts and CSAT data, then generates personalized retention letters.
Encore AI has raised $30 million to build AI agents that analyze calls, messages and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks.
MIT Technology Review's AI Hype Index examines everyday AI developments, including 1X's showcase of new dexterous humanoid robots and concerns about AI's impact on jobs.
Cyera has agreed to acquire Oasis Security for $1 billion in a move focused on safeguarding proliferating AI agents. The deal marks Cyera's third acquisition this year.
OpenAI shares a field report on how researchers apply AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, aiming to speed software development and discovery in areas such as genomics.
Recursive Superintelligence has agreed a $410M compute deal with Amazon, directing spending toward compute rather than headcount as it works to automate its own product development.
Perplexity has expanded its Personal Computer tool to Windows, enabling PCs to run as local AI agents that access files and apps to create documents and update spreadsheets.
New OpenAI research reports that AI is broadening the tasks workers handle, with ChatGPT users taking on activities across roles and shifting job boundaries.
NVIDIA is working with Cadence and Synopsys to optimize electronic design automation applications for its Vera CPU, which it is deploying to accelerate chip design.
TechCrunch maintains a running list of major tech companies that announced significant layoffs this year with AI cited as a stated factor, most recently adding Monday.com.
Prentis, a new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is reportedly in talks to raise $100M, wagering that automating routine computer tasks will overtake coding as AI's biggest use case.
Meta is adding productivity features to its AI chatbot, including calendar integration, daily briefings, and steerable research, powered by its new Muse Spark 1.1 model.
Amazon is updating Alexa Plus so it can connect to smart home devices in new ways and route complex requests to the correct device across brands like Bosch, Whirlpool, and iRobot.
AegisAI, founded by former Google security executives, has raised $36M to fight AI-driven spear phishing with AI agents that examine each message for subtle anomalies.
Patreon is laying off about 20 percent of its workforce, or roughly 93 employees, with CEO Jack Conte pointing to AI's impact on how the company works and organizes.
Atoms, a robotics company founded by Travis Kalanick, has raised $1.7 billion led by a16z, with Uber among its investors.
AWS details how monday.com operates agentic AI Teammates on Amazon Bedrock in production, sharing architecture, code-base retrofits, and reported engineering productivity metrics.
Synthesia introduced AI Roleplay Sessions, an interactive enterprise training tool where employees rehearse workplace conversations with AI avatars that provide feedback, scoring, and analytics.
As AI makes content easier to create, organize, and recommend, format-specific streaming platforms are converging toward all-purpose entertainment destinations.
Substack is rolling out an AI text detector, powered by Pangram, that lets readers scan posts and comments over 100 words for an estimate of AI-generated content.
OpenAI has introduced a ChatGPT for Small Businesses program aimed at helping entrepreneurs develop AI skills, automate work, and grow with ChatGPT Work.
Robotics startup Gritt has emerged from stealth with $34 million in funding, aiming to automate difficult construction work beginning with solar plants.
AWS explains how Amazon Quick can act as a business-user front end for agent workflows built with the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit, demonstrated with a supply-chain risk example.
Tradeshift deployed Amazon Quick with agentic AI to replace its legacy business intelligence tool, reporting up to 30x faster query responses and a 40% reduction in total cost of ownership.
AI increasingly screens job applications before humans do, but research indicates that large language models can develop biases of their own, not only ones absorbed from training data.
AI code review is genuinely useful and consistently oversold. The split is clean: it is good at local, mechanical defects and bad at whether the change should exist at all.
Accounting is an unusually good fit for AI on the input side and an unusually bad one on the output side. The line between those two is the whole discipline.
This edition of Installer covers various apps, gadgets, and tools that are must-haves for readers seeking to enhance their daily lives.
As AI transcription and summarization spread across meetings and conversations, the piece raises the question of who is actually reading the resulting output.
AWS describes Amazon Quick, an agentic AI tool for sales organizations that assists across the sales cycle from prospecting to closing and CRM maintenance.
AWS details how to build a telephony AI host that answers calls and takes restaurant orders using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Nova 2 Sonic, and the Model Context Protocol.
1Password released a browser integration that lets Claude access stored credentials to complete multi-step tasks like booking travel, without exposing login data to Anthropic's models.
Built Technologies worked with AWS teams to create an AI-powered document processing engine for real estate finance, cutting multi-day workflows to minutes across hundreds of document types.
AWS presents a solution for centralized monitoring of SageMaker Pipelines across AWS accounts and Regions using CloudWatch custom dashboards, backed by a CDK example on GitHub.
This article discusses the lessons learned from building the Shippy agent, focusing on design principles for effective AI agents.
Microsoft resolved a record 570 security vulnerabilities in its monthly Patch Tuesday release, attributing the discoveries in part to its use of AI.
Ode has launched with backing from Anthropic and Blackstone, wagering that embedding engineers inside enterprises is central to accelerating AI adoption.
Security was doing machine learning before it was cool, and it has the scar tissue to prove it. Here is where AI genuinely helps a SOC, where it drowns one in false positives, and how the threat side is changing.
Hiring is the most heavily regulated AI use case in the enterprise — and the one most likely to be deployed without anyone checking. Here is what AI actually does in recruiting, and the compliance floor you have to clear.
AWS details how Thrad.ai deployed a multi-agent system using Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to automate prospect discovery and personalized email generation, with benchmarks on two orchestration patterns.
Part 2 of an AWS series demonstrates how QA Studio extends Amazon Nova Act to handle batch regression testing and CI/CD pipeline integration via test suites and a command-line interface.
An AWS blog post outlines a cloud-based UX testing platform that uses Amazon Nova Act to auto-generate test scenarios from documentation and run user flows in parallel at scale.
In a TechCrunch interview, Uber CPO Sachin Kansal outlines the company's financial-services plans, its relationship with Waymo, a new AV Labs data operation, and emerging AI features.
This post discusses the role of AI as an accessibility tool for neurodivergent individuals, featuring Amazon Quick as a supportive assistant.
An AI agent is a language model given tools and a loop, so it can take actions instead of just talking. Here is how they actually work, where they help, and where the hype outruns reality.
The hot skill in AI has moved from writing a good prompt to designing the loop that prompts the agent for you. Here is what loop engineering means, why it emerged in 2026, and how to do it well.
From automated home valuations to AI-written listings, real estate has quietly become an AI-heavy industry. Here is where it genuinely helps — and where its estimates and models fall short.
AI voice agents can now hold a real phone conversation. Here is where they genuinely help in call centers, where they backfire, and how to roll them out so customers don't revolt.
KTern.AI transformed its SaaS platform into an agentic AI system for SAP, built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with the Strands Agents SDK to orchestrate multiple specialized agents.
OpenAI has announced that its GPT 5.6 model is the preferred choice for powering Microsoft's Copilot 365, reinforcing its integration into productivity tools.
Lyzr, a startup building AI agents for enterprises, said it used its own agent to conduct a $100 million fundraising round.
OpenAI is sunsetting its AI-powered Atlas browser after under a year, while shifting some agentic browsing features to its desktop app and a Chrome extension.
TechCrunch AI revisits the debate over AI's return on investment, noting that the figures involved are larger and the consequences potentially greater.
ChatGPT Work functions as an intelligent partner for users, facilitating project management by staying engaged for extended periods and executing tasks across various applications.
Amazon Nova introduces a multi-step pipeline that uses contextual vision reasoning for the redaction of PII in images, leveraging advanced tools for improved accuracy.
Fraud detection is one of AI's most mature, high-value uses in finance. Here is how real-time machine learning models catch fraud, the false-positive trade-off, and where humans still fit.
Marketing was among the first business functions to adopt generative AI at scale. Here is where it delivers — content, personalization, analytics — and the quality and brand risks to watch.
From the recommendations you see online to the stock on the shelf, AI runs much of modern retail. Here is how it is used for recommendations, forecasting, and inventory — and what it takes to work.
On the factory floor, AI quietly prevents breakdowns and catches defects. Here is how predictive maintenance and computer-vision inspection work, and what deploying them actually requires.
Customer service was one of the first big enterprise uses of AI. Here is where it genuinely helps, where poorly deployed bots backfire, and what a good rollout looks like.
AI is already assisting in medical imaging and clinical paperwork, but healthcare's stakes demand caution. Here is where it helps today and why human oversight stays central.
The center of gravity in AI has shifted from chat to action: agents that plan, use tools, and complete multi-step work. What's real today, what's hype, and what to watch.