automation

Agentic AI is no longer a futuristic promise — in 2026 it’s a practical way to offload the repetitive work of inbox triage, meeting prep, content drafting, and even multi-step web tasks to software that thinks, plans, and acts with minimal supervision. What started as chatbots and scripted...

Businesses are quietly replacing rigid, rule‑based workflow systems with fleets of autonomous AI agents—goal‑driven digital workers that plan, act, and learn—transforming processes from static sequences into adaptive, orchestral systems of software and human supervision. Background / Overview...

Google’s release of Workspace Studio marks a decisive push to put agentic automation in the hands of everyday knowledge workers: describe the task in plain English, and the system builds a working AI agent that can act across Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Drive, Meet, and Chat without writing a single...

Google’s Workspace Studio is now generally available, and with it the company is placing a high‑stakes bet: make AI agents something workers actually use, by building them into the apps people open every day and letting non‑developers design, deploy, and manage agents with templates and natural...

SteamCMD is the lightweight, command‑line tool Valve provides for downloading and maintaining dedicated game server files on Windows 11 without the full Steam desktop client, and this guide walks through every step — from downloading and first‑run setup to scripting updates, common pitfalls, and...

ESW has rolled out Copilot Orbit, a managed Copilot‑agent program aimed squarely at small and mid‑sized businesses that want production‑grade AI automation but lack a full in‑house AI team — a subscription service that bundles governance, data grounding, connector integration, and a repeatable...

UiPath sits at an uncanny crossroads: once the poster child of robotic process automation (RPA) and an early AI darling, it now offers investors and enterprise IT leaders a complex trade-off — dominant market share and deep enterprise hooks on one hand, and intense generative-AI and hyperscaler...

UiPath’s share price has sunk to roughly a quarter of its IPO level even as the company still claims a dominant grip on the niche that invented the term “robotic process automation,” leaving investors and enterprises to ask a blunt question: is this a quietly mispriced gateway into enterprise...

Tier3Tech’s rise to the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 and its insistence on automation-first projects signals a clear ambition: turn routine IT from a cost centre into a growth engine using SharePoint, Power Platform automation and Microsoft’s emerging Copilot/agent tooling. Background / Overview...

I turned a seven‑click, half‑minute morning ritual into a single, double‑clickable action by building a small PowerShell startup script and a desktop shortcut that wakes my PC, updates apps, opens my browser with the tabs I need, and fires up chat — all automatically. What started as a tiny...

Epic Games’ RealityScan 2.1 continues the steady, professional-grade expansion of what was once RealityCapture, pushing the desktop photogrammetry tool further into hybrid LiDAR + photogrammetry pipelines, automated server-side processing, and production-ready export options — while also...

Microsoft’s latest push to make contact-center automation more deterministic and scalable is now live: time‑out rules for automatic actions let administrators define time-based triggers that send messages, move conversation state, or close tickets automatically across messaging channels —...

Microsoft has confirmed that the Microsoft Advertising mobile app will be retired early next year, with app-store removal already scheduled for November 2025 and full shutdown of functionality in January 2026 — a shift that forces advertisers to move mobile workflows to the web-based Microsoft...

I converted a regular Windows desktop into a small, resilient automation server by wrapping long‑running tools and scripts with the Non‑Sucking Service Manager (NSSM), and the result was a surprisingly robust, low‑effort way to keep background tasks alive, logged, and automatically restarted —...

Microsoft Teams is no longer just a chat-and-meetings app — it has become a programmable, AI-first work surface that can listen, summarize, automate and act across the apps and systems organisations already rely on, and CIOs must treat that shift as a strategic platform decision rather than a...

ServiceNow’s latest announcement tightens the bond between workflow automation and AI copilots by delivering a suite of integrations with Microsoft designed to turn conversational insights into governed, auditable work — not just helpful suggestions. Announced during Microsoft Ignite in...

Chemist Warehouse’s experiment with an AI‑driven HR shared‑inbox is quietly crossing the line from pilot to repeatable template — and that matters for any organisation thinking about scaling Copilot‑style agents across business functions. The retailer’s AI Human Resources Advisory (AIHRA)...

Microsoft’s Ignite this week doubled down on one thing: agents. The company used the Moscone stage to stitch together a sweeping product narrative — new infrastructure, multi‑vendor model choice, a governance control plane called Agent 365, and an expanding partner ecosystem that promises to...

Windows already includes a powerful, Linux-style package manager you can use right now to search, install, update and remove apps — and once you learn a few commands, the time you spend wrestling installers disappears. Background / Overview The Windows Package Manager, commonly known as winget...

Tessell’s latest update repositions its multi‑cloud Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) as a practical bridge for enterprises moving large, heterogeneous database estates to Microsoft Azure while accelerating analytics and machine‑learning use through real‑time streaming and AI‑driven operations...