• January 15, 2026
A Novel Approach to Agentic Automation

“Start With the Hard Problems”: A Novel Approach to Agentic Automation

When donating the blood that gets separated into plasma used for life-saving therapies, donors probably aren’t thinking that such an intensely physical procedure is the start of a highly regulated series …

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 …

OCR to RPA to Agentic AI: Persson Traces ABBYY’s Journey in Automation

OCR to RPA to Agentic AI: Persson Traces ABBYY’s Journey in Automation

As a society makes advances, there is usually a recognizable kernel of the past that remains and even forms the basis of ongoing progress. According to Ulf Persson, CEO of ABBYY, …

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 …

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 …

Love’s Travel Stops Seeks Direction, Not Destination in Automation Journey

Love’s Travel Stops Seeks Direction, Not Destination in Automation Journey

Direction is the foundation of automotive travel. And Love’s Travel Stops, a company that has welcomed weary American road warriors for more than 60 years, knows where it’s going. It’s family-owned …

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 …

How a 'Three-Team Partnership' and Agentic Automation, Reshaped Lending at Lake Michigan Credit Union

How a ‘Three-Team Partnership’ and Agentic Automation, Reshaped Lending at Lake Michigan Credit Union

Lake Michigan Credit Union (LMCU), one of the nation’s largest mortgage lenders, has spent the past few years confronting market volatility, shifting rate cycles and rising member expectations. Those realities made …

ABBYY Survey Shows Rapid GenAI Uptake in Financial Services While Governance Lags

ABBYY Survey Shows Rapid GenAI Uptake in Financial Services While Governance Lags 

A new report from ABBYY indicates that financial services firms are adopting generative AI at a rapid pace while struggling to keep up with the governance challenges that accompany it. According to the State of Intelligent …

Building Tomorrow’s Workforce: People, Skills, and the Human Side of Automation

Building Tomorrow’s Workforce: People, Skills, and the Human Side of Automation

The thorniest ongoing challenge for automation providers in an AI age is allaying workers’ fear that the technology is an existential threat to their livelihood. In the face of that, and …