• May 5, 2025
Is AI Making Employees Dumber?

Is AI Making Employees Dumber?

That’s the question a recent survey conducted by Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University tried to answer, and it doesn’t look good for the humans (at least not in ways we …

AI Startup Focused on Healthcare Admin Nets $3.85 Million Seed Round

AI Startup Focused on Healthcare Admin Nets $3.85 Million Seed Round

The march of startups offering AI agents focused on specialized business verticals or functions continued recently when VoiceCare AI announced its launch with nearly $4 million in seed funding. The San …

Report: Fully Autonomous AI Agents Pose High Risks for Humans

Report: Fully Autonomous AI Agents Pose High Risks for Humans

The hype around AI agents and their automation capabilities has reached a frenzy, but a recent report warns against developing agents that can do too much. Researchers from AI technology developer …

Workday Launches Suite of Tools for Businesses to Manage Their AI Agents

Workday Launches Suite of Tools for Businesses to Manage Their AI Agents

As agentic AI exerts a larger influence in how organizations implement automation, businesses on the leading edge of leveraging the technology will need to devote more resources to managing AI agents. …

Cisco to Deploy AI Agents for Renewal Proposals, More to Follow

Cisco to Deploy AI Agents for Renewal Proposals, More to Follow

Networking and telecom giant Cisco said it has launched the AI Renewals Agent—the first of several AI agents it will deploy internally to autonomously accomplish complex tasks with no human intervention. …

Study Finds 58% of Workers Using AI Agents, But Concerns Remain High

Study Finds 58% of Workers Using AI Agents, But Concerns Remain High

While hype in the media over using agentic AI to automate tasks, processes and workflows seems to be reaching a zenith, how many people are actually using it at work to …

Report: IT Leaders Ready for Agentic AI to Automate Business Processes

Report: IT Leaders Ready for Agentic AI to Automate Business Processes

A UiPath study released this week finds 90 percent of IT executives believe the business processes of the organizations they work with would be improved by leveraging AI agents to automate …

Altman to Brief President Trump on AI Agents

Altman to Brief President Trump on AI Agents

President Trump, who was sworn into office on Monday, will receive a briefing from OpenAI’s Sam Altman on AI agents next week, according to an Axios report. AI agents have taken …

AI-Empowered Consumers Could Drive 46% of Spending in U.S., Says Report

AI-Empowered Consumers Could Drive 46% of Spending in U.S., Says Report

New Jersey-based technology services provider Cognizant recently released the results of a study on how consumers will adopt AI, how consumer comfort with the technology will drive adoption by businesses in …

LogicMonitor Partners with OpenAI For Agentic AI Automation in Data Centers

LogicMonitor Partners with OpenAI For Agentic AI Automation in Data Centers

LogicMonitor, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based provider of IT operations (ITOps) technology for data center monitoring, recently announced that it has integrated OpenAI technology into its platform. The partnership lets LogicMonitor customers …