#automation

Google rolls out Ask Advisor and AI-powered dashboards to help marketers automate insights, benchmarking, and campaign optimization.

Automated video and voice AI interviews are pushing job candidates to interview during off-hours—24% of AI-conducted interviews now happen between 10 pm and 2 am.

The startup has onboarded 30,000+ developers by automating LLC formation, payments, and cloud setup through a single API.

Athens-based customer support automation firm closes $67M funding round led by Expedition Growth Capital, bringing ARR to $60M.

A new tool enables Unix pipelines to route data through LLM inference without leaving the shell.

After years of technical stumbles, major fast-food chains are deploying AI voice systems at scale, with Taco Bell and Dairy Queen leading a shift toward automated ordering.

A Marc Benioff-backed startup tackles the growing complexity of deploying AI in legacy corporate environments by automating process discovery and integration.

OpenAI's ChatGPT Voice feature, powered by GPT-Live models, now works on desktop apps to control agents and automate complex workflows.

The Japanese IT services giant automated critical system diagnostics with AI agents, reducing a five-engineer workflow to a half-hour process.

Kalanick's manufacturing-focused startup Atoms closed a $1.7B Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Uber and Bain Capital.

New debugging agents automatically fix broken end-to-end test scripts, reducing manual remediation overhead for QA teams.

Police departments are rapidly adopting AI tools for routine tasks, but history suggests the consequences could undermine due process and accountability.

Content creators are using the open-source AI agent OpenClaw to automate dating outreach, raising questions about disclosure and authenticity in digital romance.

Oregon State spinoff Agility Robotics merges with Churchill Capital Corp XI, targeting public trading with $300M+ in customer orders for next-generation bipedal units.

Hugging Face shifted from manual 4-6 week release cycles to automated weekly deployments using open-source tools and AI for release notes, keeping human judgment in the loop.

Google DeepMind partners with UK government to deploy Gemini-powered planning assistant across local councils by 2027, aiming to accelerate the country's 1.5M-home construction target.

Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raised $12B from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock to automate engineering design and manufacturing at a $41B valuation.

Barcelona-based robotics startup Theker closes Europe's largest robotics Series A, betting on reconfigurable machines over single-task humanoids.

Theker, an AI robotics company, closes $85M Series B round with backing from LVMH and other institutional investors, signaling corporate appetite for autonomous systems.

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman clarifies that AI will accelerate white-collar work processes rather than eliminate roles entirely.

OpenAI launches six new Codex plugins targeting analysts, marketers, designers, and investors, expanding its 5M weekly users into non-technical workflows.

From tutoring to craft retail, solo entrepreneurs use AI assistants to automate scheduling, invoicing, and inventory—freeing time for high-value client work.

Health-care providers are adopting autonomous AI agents to automate insurance claims, scheduling, and triage, reducing clinician workload and improving patient outcomes.

Google rolls out Gemini Spark, an AI agent with calendar and email access, in beta. Early testers discover both impressive automation and awkward contextual errors.

Aaron Levie argues tech CEOs are making unrealistic AI automation decisions because they lack hands-on experience with deployment challenges.

AI agents are automating debt collection as delinquency surges, replacing human call-center workers in one of the lowest-satisfaction jobs.

ClickUp laid off 22% of staff while deploying 3,000 internal AI agents, raising questions about whether automation gains translate to business returns.

Project Open Hand partners with Chef Robotics to automate plating for medically tailored meals, addressing volunteer shortages in the Tenderloin.

The nine-state hospital system is using OpenAI's healthcare-specific model to automate documentation tasks, freeing clinicians to spend more time with patients.

Anthropic demonstrated autonomous coding at scale, with half of attendees shipping Claude-written code unseen.

Ramp's engineering team uses OpenAI's Codex to deliver pull request feedback in minutes, reducing manual review cycles and supporting internal agent development.

Figma releases an AI assistant that generates, edits, and automates design tasks using natural language prompts, competing against Canva and Adobe as revenue surges 46% YoY.

Google announced agentic features for Search, letting users create AI agents for real-time monitoring, booking, and alerts—without leaving Google's ecosystem.

Amazon founder pursues massive capital raise to buy manufacturing firms and modernize them through his AI startup Project Prometheus.