• October 16, 2026
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Nearly 90% of Americans Support AI Agents That Make Gov’t Interactions More Efficient, Says Report

Nearly 90% of Americans Support AI Agents That Make Gov’t Interactions More Efficient, Says Report

Current attempts to downsize the federal government notwithstanding, most people who have had to interact with the U.S., state or local governments find the process onerous, time consuming and inefficient. According …

Anthropic Nets $3.5 Billion in New Funding

Anthropic Nets $3.5 Billion in New Funding 

Anthropic, the Bay Area startup that has risen to be one of the most recognizable names in AI development, announced it has raised a Series E funding round worth $3.5 billion, …

Salesforce Rolls Out Agentforce for Agentic Automation

Salesforce Rolls Out Agentforce for Agentic Automation

Salesforce, which in September announced a new platform designed to help clients leverage the growing trend toward agentic AI in automation, has rolled what it calls Agentforce out to the public. …

Microsoft Joins AI Agent Parade

Microsoft Joins AI Agent Parade

The beat rolls on for AI agents in process automation. With a near-simultaneous announcement from UiPath following another major announcement a month ago from Salesforce, Microsoft has joined the fray with …

Benioff: Salesforce Aims to Empower a Billion AI Agents For Process Automation by End of 2025

Benioff: Salesforce Aims to Empower a Billion AI Agents For Process Automation by End of 2025

Salesforce has launched a new platform designed to help clients leverage the growing trend toward agentic AI in automation. The CRM giant’s Agentforce enables Saleforce clients to access a network of …

Gartner Names Automation Anywhere, Microsoft, SS&C Blue Prism and UiPath as RPA ‘Leaders’

Gartner Names Automation Anywhere, Microsoft, SS&C Blue Prism and UiPath as RPA ‘Leaders’

Even as RPA has been joined by other types of solutions to comprise an optimal mix for the purpose of end-to-end business process automation, it has remained a core technology as …

Australian Process Mining Firm Nets $15 Million in New Funding

Australian Process Mining Firm Nets $15 Million in New Funding

Apromore, a Melbourne, Australia-based company that provides process mining technology to businesses, has received $15 million in new funding to bolster its AI-driven platform. The raise is an extension of its …

U.S. Department of Commerce Expands AI Safety Consortium

U.S. Department of Commerce Expands AI Safety Consortium

Last week, the U.K. government touted a testing platform released by its AI Safety Institute, one of the first government-backed bodies attempting to establish guardrails around AI development, which is outpacing …

IT Struggling to Keep Their Businesses Up-to-Date with Automation Integration

Nearly every IT department (98 percent) polled in a recent survey said they are experiencing some degree of challenge with digital transformation efforts. The report, from Salesforce’s MuleSoft unit said 80 …

Forrester Names Appian, IBM, Microsoft and ServiceNow as ‘Leaders’ in DPA

Cambridge, Mass.-based consultancy Forrester has released its most recent Wave report ($) identifying and evaluating what it has identified as the top 15 providers of Digital Process Automation (DPA) technology. For Q4 2023, Forrester named …