• September 21, 2026
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Clearing the Path for Human Expertise: How Tokio Marine HCC is Automating Underwriting, Not the Underwriter

Clearing the Path for Human Expertise: How Tokio Marine HCC is Automating Underwriting, Not the Underwriter

Underwriting is the beating heart of the insurance business. But for a company that has evolved into one of the largest specialty insurers in the world, how it assesses risk across …

Automation Anywhere Launches Agentic Procure-to-Pay Solution

Automation Anywhere Launches Agentic Procure-to-Pay Solution

Automation Anywhere has unveiled a Procure-to-Pay solution that uses AI agents to coordinate processes across procurement and finance systems. The offering, part of the company’s Autonomous Finance suite of AI-powered tools …

Worldline Adds Payment Support for AI-Initiated Commerce

Worldline Adds Payment Support for AI-Initiated Commerce

European merchant acquirer and payments processor Worldline said it now supports the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard developed by Google and industry partners to support automated commerce conducted through …

IDP Magic Quadrant

‘Leaders’ Return to IDP Magic Quadrant

As agentic AI-based systems that automate business processes proliferate, intelligent document processing (IDP) is taking on an increasingly prominent role. Enterprise AI agents frequently need to extract and interpret information contained …

Deloitte Launches Open Model Engineering Practice for Enterprise AI

Deloitte Launches Open Model Engineering Practice for Enterprise AI

Global technology consultancy Deloitte has launched an Open Model Engineering practice to help enterprises implement AI-based automation using open models and open-source frameworks alongside proprietary technologies. The London-based firm says the …

SoundHound AcquiresLivePerson

SoundHound Acquires LivePerson

SoundHound AI said it has completed its acquisition of LivePerson, combining SoundHound’s voice and agentic AI technology with LivePerson’s enterprise digital messaging capabilities. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company plans to integrate …

Anthropic Launches Blueprint for Building Commerce Agents

Anthropic Launches Blueprint for Building Commerce Agents

Frontier AI lab Anthropic said it has released a blueprint both shoppers and merchants can use to build agents that help them transact business. The blueprint includes harnesses, development patterns and …

Agents Require Reimagined Governance Model, Says Report

Agents Require Reimagined Governance Model, Says Report

Enterprises increasingly are turning to agentic AI to drive process automation, but recent reports of AI agents circumventing their programming and breaking out of secure environments demonstrate the inadequacy of traditional …

Report: AI Could Replace Manual Hospital Inventory Counting

Report: AI Could Replace Manual Hospital Inventory Counting

Use cases for AI-driven automation are mounting, with health care continuing to provide fertile ground. One opportunity for healthcare organizations to replace manual processes is in the inventory area, where AI, …

Agentic Commerce Could Perform 120 Billion Transactions Annually by 2031

Agentic Commerce Could Perform 120 Billion Transactions Annually by 2031

The number of transactions conducted via agentic commerce could grow from approximately 620 million in 2026 to 120 billion annually by 2031, according to new research from Juniper Research. While much …