• March 9, 2026

NEWS FOR THE AI-POWERED INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION ECOSYSTEM

Meta Acquires Manus to Bolster Access to General-Purpose AI Agents

Meta Acquires Manus to Bolster Access to General-Purpose AI Agents

Just before the new year, Meta announced it had acquired Manus, a Singapore-based company building general-purpose AI agents aimed at both consumer and business use cases. According to the Wall Street …

Gallup: More Employees Using AI to Automate Work, but Adoption Remains Uneven Across Roles and Industries

Gallup: More Employees Using AI to Automate Work, but Adoption Remains Uneven Across Roles and Industries

The share of U.S. employees using artificial intelligence at work continues to increase, though adoption remains uneven across industries, roles and organizations, according to a recent Gallup Workforce study. Gallup found …

Akamai, Visa Partner to Add Identity and Fraud Controls for Agentic Commerce

Akamai, Visa Partner to Add Identity and Fraud Controls for Agentic Commerce 

Akamai and Visa are working together to address security and identity challenges emerging as AI agents begin to transact on behalf of consumers. Under the collaboration, Akamai is integrating Visa’s Trusted …

Survey Finds Enterprises Plan to Increase AI Agent Spending Amid Security Concerns

Survey Finds Enterprises Plan to Increase AI Agent Spending Amid Security Concerns

Enterprise investment in AI agents is set to increase sharply over the next year, according to a new survey released by Zapier, underscoring both growing adoption and persistent concerns around governance …

IDC Names ‘Leaders’ in IDP Market Assessment

IDC Names ‘Leaders’ in IDP Market Assessment

As the market for AI-powered intelligent automation grows, the component technologies of the platforms that deliver it are becoming more complex. Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), a capability that supports orchestration and …

FDA Begins Deploying Agentic AI Across Workforce

FDA Begins Deploying Agentic AI Across Workforce 

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has begun rolling out agentic AI tools agency-wide, extending its use of automation technologies beyond the LLM-based assistant it introduced earlier this year. The capabilities …

Engage Fi Acquires Intellectual Dimensions to Automate Core-Conversion Data Work

Engage Fi Acquires Intellectual Dimensions to Automate Core-Conversion Data Work

Engage fi, a consultant for banks changing to new core processing solutions, has acquired Minneapolis-based Intellectual Dimensions, adding an automated data-processing platform to help clients navigate core conversions and M&A-driven system …

Visa and AWS Partner to Expand Agentic Commerce Tools for Enterprise Developers

Visa and AWS Partner to Expand Agentic Commerce Tools for Enterprise Developers 

Visa and Amazon Web Services announced a collaboration expanding support for agentic commerce, bringing Visa’s Intelligent Commerce platform to AWS Marketplace and giving developers broader access to payment and workflow tools for AI …

IRS Begins Deploying AI Agents Across Key Divisions Amid Workforce Reductions, Says Report

IRS Begins Deploying AI Agents Across Key Divisions Amid Workforce Reductions, Says Report 

The Internal Revenue Service has begun deploying Salesforce’s Agentforce platform across several divisions, marking the agency’s first widespread use of AI agents, according to a report in Axios. The rollout comes during …

UiPath Pitches in to Set Standards for Agentic AI

UiPath Pitches in to Set Standards for Agentic AI 

One of the main concerns around the emergence of AI as a tool for businesses to optimize their efficiency is the notion that a lack of security and governance will degrade its effectiveness and could increase …