• January 28, 2026
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, …

OnePay Joins Google Agent Payments Protocol as Walmart Pushes Deeper Into Agentic Commerce

OnePay Joins Google Agent Payments Protocol as Walmart Pushes Deeper Into Agentic Commerce

OnePay, the fintech arm majority-owned by Walmart, has signed on to Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), underscoring the broader push by major retailers to build infrastructure for AI-driven commerce. The move …

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 …

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 …

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 …