automation

Anthropic’s new Cowork pivot turns Claude from a developer-focused coding assistant into a desktop “AI coworker” for everyday tasks — a move that accelerates agentic AI into mainstream workflows while reopening familiar trade-offs between productivity gains, security exposure, and long-term...

Hertz’s experiments with Microsoft Power Platform show how a global mobility business can turn frontline pain points into measurable automation and AI wins — a pragmatic, low-code pathway from tactical fixes to strategic modernization that’s already delivering employee productivity gains and...

Core Keeper’s underground keeps growing — and the next big expansion, Void & Voltage, arrives with a thump on January 28, 2026, bringing a new biome, heavy new weaponry, and a full suite of automation gear that reshapes late‑game goals and cooperative base design. The update also coincides with...

The AI showdown that matters for millions of knowledge workers has settled into a pragmatic split: in 2025, Microsoft Copilot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT no longer compete on novelty alone — they compete on where and how they fit into real work. Microsoft sells baked‑in Office automation, tenant...

Windows lets you open the Settings app in more ways than most users realize — and the fastest, most reliable method remains the keyboard shortcut Windows key + I — but there are also command-line, Run‑URI, File Explorer, Start menu and Power User menu approaches that are useful in specific...

Samsung SDS used CES 2026 to stake a clear claim: the next battleground for corporate competitiveness will be agentic AI — autonomous, task-oriented software agents that can reason, act and coordinate across enterprise systems without constant human direction. Background / Overview Samsung SDS...

Google’s and Microsoft’s AI assistants have stopped being curiosities and have become furniture in the modern workflow — but they are very different pieces of furniture, designed for distinct rooms and purposes. Google’s Gemini has surged to mass-market scale and prowess in multimodal research...

You can get real results from free AI tools in 2026 without paying a penny or becoming a tech expert, but the trick is choosing a small, reliable set and using them with clear safety habits from day one. The Chiang Rai Times roundup provides a practical shortlist of generative AI utilities that...

Welcome to 2026: AI agents are no longer a novelty you try on for a quarter — they are becoming persistent, identity-bearing software coworkers that plan, act, and execute across apps and services, and that shift will reshape how Windows users, IT teams, and enterprise architects design...

Practitioner teams delivering client advisory services (CAS) can realize outsized benefits from modest, well-scoped AI automation — freeing staff from repetitive work, improving accuracy, and shifting the practice toward forward-looking advisory that commands higher fees and client loyalty. The...

PowerToys’ new Light Switch is one of those small, shockingly practical features that makes you wonder why Windows 11 Settings never baked it in to begin with—yet the feature’s rough rollout, unexpected default enablement for some users, and leftover platform problems mean making it a default...

Microsoft’s new analysis of Copilot usage and enterprise telemetry has crystallised a stark message for knowledge workers: by 2026, a concentrated set of language-, communication- and data-processing-heavy roles look most exposed to generative-AI automation, even as the company and many...

AI agents have moved from speculative demos to production-ready automation in record time, and this surge of capability — from Copilot Studio to drag‑and‑drop agent builders — is changing how organizations structure work, risk, and procurement at scale. Background / Overview The last two years...

Enterprises across the Middle East and beyond are pouring money into automation and artificial intelligence, but the story is no longer about whether automation works — it’s about how organisations fail to convert pilots into durable, enterprise-scale value. Daniel Dines, UiPath’s founder and...

Windows is the invisible workhorse in millions of workflows — but beneath the familiar desktop lies a toolkit that can turn a good user into a true power user. This feature walks through ten practical, tested hacks that accelerate common tasks, reduce friction, and give you more control over how...

Big Tech’s latest moves make one thing clear: AI is no longer a single, monolithic capability bolted onto apps — it is the connective tissue weaving together creativity, commerce and workplace automation, with companies shifting from one-size-fits-all models to specialized AI stacks and...

Microsoft’s own engineers have announced an audacious, company-wide plan: use AI and large-scale automated tooling to translate Microsoft’s C and C++ codebases to Rust — with an explicit target of eliminating “every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030.” Background Microsoft’s shift toward...

The calendar year 2025 stands as a turning point for artificial intelligence — a year when models became multimodal thinkers, agents began to act autonomously across real workflows, and robotics and specialised silicon moved from laboratory curiosities toward practical deployment. What started...

Windows PowerShell 5.1 now halts and asks for confirmation when Invoke‑WebRequest would perform full HTML/DOM parsing that could run scripts embedded in the retrieved page — a deliberate hardening shipped in Microsoft’s December 9, 2025 updates to mitigate a command‑injection / remote code...

Linux taught me how to think about an operating system as a toolbox, and those lessons have quietly reshaped the way I use Windows every day. The small but powerful shifts — adopting package managers, trusting the terminal, treating customization as a productivity affordance, taking security and...