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Minicor Raises $3.8 Million to Automate Legacy Desktop Applications

Minicor Raises $3.8 Million to Automate Legacy Desktop Applications

Minicor, a Bay Area startup that builds AI agents to automate legacy desktop application workflows, has raised $3.8 million in seed funding.  The company said the funding round, led by IA …

Survey Finds Community Banks, Credit Unions Prioritize AI for Fraud Detection and Workflow Automation

Survey Finds Community Banks, Credit Unions Prioritize AI for Fraud Detection and Workflow Automation

While major financial institutions have leveraged RPA and AI-driven intelligent automation since they were introduced, smaller community banks and credit unions have not always been able to commit resources to these …

Agentic Automation Should be Outcome-Driven: A Conversation with SS&C

Agentic Automation Should be Outcome-Driven: A Conversation with SS&C

There is a growing sentiment among end users of business process automation technology that releasing a new platform labelled “agentic” isn’t the quantum leap forward suggested by the work of the …

Barndoor Acquires Diaphora to Add Governed AI Workflow Automation

Barndoor Acquires Diaphora to Add Governed AI Workflow Automation

Enterprise AI governance provider Barndoor has acquired Diaphora, a startup developing technology for building repeatable AI workflows, as the New York City-based company hopes to combine automation development with controls over …

OpenAI Pauses Model Training Amid Concerns Over Agent Behavior

OpenAI Pauses Model Training Amid Concerns Over Agent Behavior

OpenAI has temporarily halted training of its latest AI models following reports that its agents took actions beyond their instructions while accessing federal government websites, according to a report fropm the …

SS&C Rolls Out AI-Enabled Tools for Financial Services, Healthcare at Annual Conference

SS&C Rolls Out AI-Enabled Tools for Financial Services, Healthcare at Annual Conference

After opening its annual conference by ringing the NASDAQ opening bell, SS&C Technologies this week unveiled a collection of AI-enabled products and enhancements to its current technology lineup aimed at automating …

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 …

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 …

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, …