• June 17, 2026
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KnowledgeLake Names Billy Biggs CEO

KnowledgeLake Names Billy Biggs CEO

KnowledgeLake has appointed tech industry veteran Billy Biggs as chief executive officer to lead the organization as it expands its intelligent document processing and workflow automation business. The St. Louis, Mo.-based …

ABBYY Joins Working Group for AI-Native Document Standard

ABBYY Joins Working Group for AI-Native Document Standard

Intelligent automation technology provider ABBYY announced it has become part of the DocLang Specification Working Group, a collaborative effort to create an open document standard that aims to improve how enterprise …

KSTEC Launches Intelligent Document Processing Platform

KSTEC Launches Intelligent Document Processing Platform

IT consultancy KSTEC said it has launched Smart IDP, an intelligent document processing platform that combines robotic process automation, optical character recognition, natural language processing, machine learning and large language models …

Automation Anywhere’s Kuruganti Says Agentic AI Needs More Than Just Agents

Automation Anywhere’s Kuruganti Says Agentic AI Needs More Than Just Agents

Automation’s latest arms race may be focused on agents, but Adi Kuruganti thinks the real battle is happening on less glamorous ground: orchestration, governance and process reliability. As chief AI and …

Agentic AI Traffic to Financial Services Sites More Than Doubled in May, Report Says

Agentic AI Traffic to Financial Services Sites More Than Doubled in May, Report Says

While process automation technology providers identified financial services as a ripe target in the early days of RPA, most systems using AI agents have not focused on the space so far. …

Airspeed Raises $20 Million Series A to Expand Agentic AI Platform for Revenue Teams

Airspeed Raises $20 Million Series A to Expand Agentic AI Platform for Revenue Teams

Airspeed announced a $20 million Series A funding round led by DN Capital to build out its platform that enables go-to-market teams to leverage data and insights using agentic AI. The …

Snowflake, AWS Expand Partnership Around Enterprise AI Workloads

Snowflake, AWS Expand Partnership Around Enterprise AI Workloads

Snowflake and Amazon Web Services have signed an agreement aimed at accelerating enterprise adoption of generative and agentic AI technologies. Under the agreement, the Bay Area-based data platform said it will …

UiPath Reports Profitable Quarter as Agentic AI Products Move into Production

UiPath Reports Profitable Quarter as Agentic AI Products Move into Production

UiPath reported first-quarter fiscal 2027 earnings of $.15 per share late last week on revenue of $418 million. The Q1 profit was in line with estimates while the revenue number was …

Mihir Shukla and Automation Anywhere: Creating the Autonomous Enterprise in the Age of AI

Mihir Shukla and Automation Anywhere: Creating the Autonomous Enterprise in the Age of AI

Since November 2022, business conversations have centered on AI and little else. Despite all the attention and promise, however, Mihir Shukla thinks the enterprises driving those conversations are still asking the …

Google Expands Agentic Commerce Push with Universal Cart

Google Expands Agentic Commerce Push with Universal Cart

Google is expanding its push into agentic commerce with the launch of Universal Cart, a shopping platform that works across Search, Gemini, YouTube and Gmail while automating parts of the purchasing …