#ai-automation

#ai-automation

The system's software reviews each budget line and compares costs for similar projects in the specified geographic area. While this process can be done manually, automating it can save time and help builders obtain necessary construction finance draws faster, Sitewire CEO Bryan Kester tells The Builder's Daily/HousingWire. It saves you having to go to a GC, ask for a construction bid or estimate, and then just hope that it's correct. It's the opposite process. You would put it into our system, hit a button, and we'll tell you within 15 minutes

America's $1.6T construction industry faces a critical infrastructure crisis: while housing starts reached 1.43M units in mid-2025, 77% of developers report permitting delays, with cities like San Francisco averaging 33 months just to secure approval. This pre-construction bottleneck has compounded a 4.7M housing unit shortage, pushing median home prices up $88K since 2020 while construction timelines stretch beyond 300 days from permit to final inspection in many markets.

What if your workday could be smarter, faster, and more secure, all thanks to the tools you already use? With the latest updates to Microsoft 365, unveiled alongside key announcements at the Ignite conference, that vision is closer than ever. From AI-driven innovations that automate tedious tasks to security enhancements designed to protect sensitive data, Microsoft is redefining how we collaborate and stay productive in an increasingly hybrid world.

The "iceberg" analogy highlights the difference between visible and hidden AI impacts: The Tip (Surface Index): This represents the visible impact, such as layoffs and role shifts in the tech sector, which accounts for about 2.2% of wage exposure. The Hidden Mass (Iceberg Index): This represents the much larger potential for disruption in routine administrative, financial, and professional service roles (11.7% of wage value) that are often overlooked in traditional forecasts.

For years, we filled our calendars, stayed visible, and kept the machine moving. Our worth was measured in hours, output, and presence. It had to be. Humans were the system, and the system required us to keep it running. We didn't question it because that was how things got done. AI has changed that. It can now do many of the things we once did to keep things moving: the summaries, the reports, the follow-ups, the updates, the spreadsheets.

Hundreds of thousands of workers-hailing from over 50 countries-are currently trapped within Southeast Asia's sprawling scam centers, according to estimates by the United Nations. But humanitarian experts think these workers may soon be replaced by artificial intelligence. In some scam centers, messages initiating contact between scammers and potential victims are already being crafted and sent by AI, says Ling Li, a researcher and co-author of Scam: Inside Southeast Asia's Cybercrime Compounds.

Early on, AI can make workers more productive - helping them do more, faster - which tends to lift wages before automation starts to replace some of those jobs.

Experian plc is a global data and technology company that operates across various sectors, including financial services, healthcare, and automotive, providing solutions like fraud prevention and digital marketing. In its latest earnings report for the first half of 2025, Experian reported strong financial performance, with a 12% increase in total revenue and a 14% rise in Benchmark EBIT from ongoing activities.

Blend's AI-powered Intelligent Quality Control product enhances loan quality control, helping QC analysts detect issues more efficiently. It applies digitized underwriting guidelines to loan data and documents and provides step-by-step validation and reasoning, enabling the QC analyst to focus on areas of high judgment. This ensures a comprehensive, accurate, and efficient pre-funding review process, reducing review times, mitigating risks and increasing profitability for lenders.

Amazon could be implementing the largest job reduction at the company since 2023. As reported by Reuters on Monday, people familiar with the matter said that up to 30,000 corporate positions may be eliminated starting Tuesday. The job cuts are expected to affect various sectors, including human resources, devices and services, operations, and others. Amazon hasn't eliminated this many jobs since 27,000 were cut beginning in late 2022.

This operational burden intensifies as wealth management firms race to meet surging client demand for alternatives, with RIAs and family offices struggling to track hundreds of documents across dozens of portals while maintaining accurate performance reporting. Bridge has emerged as the first AI-native operating system designed specifically for private markets allocators, automating the entire workflow from document aggregation to performance analytics through proprietary technology that reduces operational overhead by 70% and generates reports 3x faster.

AI taking entry-level jobs is a 'when,' not an 'if.' But in venture capital, 70% of the decision is reading the founder and team-and that's something AI can't do. That simple breakdown , 70% people, 30% product-flips the usual narrative about finance. For decades, finance was defined by numbers. Analysts lived and died by the spreadsheets. Today, AI can run discounted cash flows, parse a term sheet, and size a market faster than any junior associate.

The title business is very relationship driven and many local title company owners have this fear that the industry will be disrupted in a way that hurts these local relationships, Natalia Karayaneva, the CEO of Propy, said. These companies want to be more efficient and we want the local relationships they have, so these acquisitions are a win for everyone.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ( NYSE: GS) has made it plain that it will start to cull its workforce based on the ability of some artificial intelligence (AI) programs to do what humans do better than humans. However, the AI-based decisions are not entirely about AI advantages. The bank has always been known for ruthless management. It has asked executives to find "underperformers." This could affect about 1,000 people this year.

Vodafone has chosen Ericsson as its exclusive radio access network (RAN) supplier across Ireland, the Netherlands and Portugal, in a five-year deal that the comms tech provider says marks one of the most significant network modernisation programmes in Europe, redefining network performance, automation and sustainability. In addition to becoming Vodafone's sole RAN supplier in the aforementioned territories, the partnership will also see Ericsson act as a major partner in Germany, Romania and Egypt.

The whole thing works like this: exhausted job seekers upload their résumé and format their personal info. Once up and running, they're presented with various gigs one by one, which they can swipe left to reject, or right to apply - just like a dating app. When a user swipes right, Sorce's "AI agent" navigates to the company's website and applies on their behalf.

AI automation engineer sounds like a vague title, so here's the job, plainly: I embed with a team (HR, in my case), spot opportunities to enhance the team's work, and build AI-powered workflows that jump on those opportunities. The goal is to create measurable improvements that free my teammates up for creativity, strategy, and connection. I think we'll be seeing this title pop up more and more as time goes on.

"I'm actually hiring more new grads-now, they're largely new grad PhDs-but more new grads than ever before,"

The "lumpenproletariat," according to " The Communist Manifesto," is "the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of the old society." Lower than proletariat workers, the lumpenproletariat includes the indigent and the unemployable, those cast out of the workforce with no recourse, or those who can't enter it in the first place, such as young workers in times of economic depression.

I also plan on retiring someday, and I'm guessing I'm not the only senior developer who plans on doing that. In fact, I feel very confident saying that 100% of senior developers will, one way or another, stop coding at some point. Now, math is hard, I know, but it seems incandescently obvious to me that to be a senior developer, you must first be a junior developer, and if there are no junior developers, then we'll eventually run out of senior developers.

The pressure is mounting on business leaders to harness AI to make work faster, cheaper, and more efficient. That may thrill investors, but for employees, it could mean fewer jobs around the world. At the $320 billion software giant SAP, there will likely be a need for fewer engineers to deliver the same-or even greater-output, according to the company's CFO Dominik Asam.

Artificial intelligence has changed my business entirely. The majority of my business is ecommerce-based, and AI has allowed me to automate many of the most time-consuming tasks. This shift hasn't just saved me time; it's made daily operations more efficient and enabled smarter, data-driven decisions that have elevated both productivity and customer satisfaction. In the early days, I spent nearly every waking hour creating products and listing them online.

Move it one way and it disappears, move it the other and it clutters my high-priority list. Working on dozens of projects like this, manual tagging quickly becomes a time sink that's inconsistent and error-prone. AI project management tools now solve this by auto-tagging tasks based on content, context, and even conversations. Categories stay accurate, searches are faster, and your team can finally focus on the work instead of admin.

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In numbers, an overwhelming 77 percent of businesses using Anthropic's Claude AI software showed signs of automation, like "full task delegation," according to the released by the company this week. Only 12 percent of AI usage appeared to leverage the tech in an augmentation role, like learning or asking the bot for feedback. The report was based on data from Anthropic's application programming interface, or API, through which customers access the AI software.

iBuying was never out of vogue, Rabois said, addressing comments about Redfin's and Zillow's exits from the space. It was out of vogue because Redfin and Zillow didn't know how to do it. We were always successful. We minted free cash flow every year I was involved in the company. However, it's very complicated and very difficult to do iBuying well, but the value proposition of certainty, transactional speed is incredibly compelling to Americans.