#automation

#automation

A few years into the AI boom, it's clear that designers can rely on AI for some things. It can automate tedious tasks in Photoshop that once took up precious time. It can generate images on command (quality be damned!). It can schedule a meeting, respond to an email, and take notes on a Zoom call. But for all the hype, we know that AI isn't a silver bullet for the real problems creatives face.

Getting ready for a new business year is a crucial time. It presents the opportunity to reflect and make a list of a strategic changes to the way your company works. Small and simple tweaks in your approach can set your business up for sustainable growth and success. With so much in the pipeline and a lot to play for, it's worth getting the early preparations off to a strong start.

"If you can't measure it, you can't manage it." Ral explains how tracking the right business metrics - especially the bottom line, not just revenue - transformed her approach to entrepreneurship. She shares a personal story about learning the difference between making money and making a profit, and how focusing on profitability is essential for real business success.

The need for efficiency becomes paramount, particularly as costs continue to rise. Adopting innovative solutions can help managers tackle these challenges effectively. For instance, the use of technology such as a robotic line marker can simplify field maintenance, reducing both time and labour costs. This type of automation allows for the precise execution of tasks, which is critical for maintaining the quality that fans and players expect.

MSPs contribute massively to the UK economy. According to the Government, the UK MSP market consists of an estimated 11,492 active providers, generating an annual combined revenue of £52.5 billion in 2022 and employing an estimated 294,350 full-time employees. While MSPs continue to play a key role for businesses across the country, the demands on today's channel community are continually evolving. Clients are navigating economic uncertainty, hybrid work, cyber volatility and compliance pressures.

One of our favorite tools is Claude Code, the AI coding assistant from Anthropic, which we're using to explore ideas, ship features, and create documentation. But while Claude Code is powerful out of the box, its real potential emerges when you customize it to fit your workflow. In this article, I'm going to walk through a handful of tips and tricks that help you move beyond simply entering prompts into a text box.

The first milestone was moving away from spreadsheets and homegrown systems. In the early 2000s, many lenders were still relying on highly manual processes to manage audits. These approaches weren't scalable and left too much room for human error and inconsistency. The introduction of configurable platforms gave lenders a better way to enforce sampling rules, ensure consistency in audits and improve reporting.

I've always had an analytical streak, some might call it a blessing, others a curse that constantly scans for opportunities to improve how we work. Whether it's a project, product, or process, I'm wired to evaluate the good, the bad, and the ugly in search of ways to make things better. We all have blind spots, and my goal is to minimize them through continuous reflection, open dialogue, and a willingness to challenge the status quo.

When an incident occurs, every second counts. Whether it's a security breach, theft, or an unauthorized access attempt, physical security teams must act quickly to determine what happened, who was involved, and what actions to take next. Digging through hours of footage, manually piecing together evidence, and cross-referencing logs can be slow and cumbersome. But with a modern video management system ( VMS), security teams can streamline investigations, improve response times, and uncover critical insights faster - "supercharging" their investigations.

What if you could hand off every tedious computer task, no matter how complex, to an intelligent system that handles it with precision and speed? Enter TARS Agent, a new open source AI operating system that promises to transform the way we interact with technology. Imagine automating everything from filling out web forms to generating detailed reports, all without lifting a finger. Developed by ByteDance, the creators of globally impactful technologies, TARS combines innovative AI with a seamless user experience, making it a fantastic option for both tech enthusiasts and professionals.

The agent will draw on all a user's notion pages and database as context, automatically generating notes and analysis for meetings, competitor evaluation reports, and feedback landing pages. The productivity platform said that the agent can create pages and databases, or update them with new data, properties, or views. Users can also trigger Notion agents from outside platforms that are linked to the service. For instance, you can ask Notion agent to create a bug tracking dashboard from various sources, including Slack, email, and Google Drive.

More than half of Americans report that they will run out of money when they stop earning a paycheck and millions haven't saved enough to maintain their standard of living in retirement, There is an urgent need to re-imagine the role record keepers play in financial wellness, and it starts by leveraging technology to close the gap between capabilities and customer expectations.

CrowdStrike claims that Falcon for IT Risk-based Patching solves this problem by bringing vulnerability management and patch implementation together within the Falcon console. It uses proprietary intelligence and AI models to determine which vulnerabilities are most likely to be exploited in practice. With features such as Patch Safety Scores and sensor intelligence, teams should be able to patch faster, more securely, and on a larger scale without disruption.

Earlier this year, he and I were talking about some of the shared vision we had for the future of the industry, trying to implement AI in a thoughtful manner, White said. Sure, you can go bolt on ChatGPT to title company data and see if it does anything for you. I don't think that would be a very high value-add product, but there are thoughtful ways we can introduce AI into the title industry.

The Farmer Was Replaced requires you to program a drone to automate repetitive farming tasks as you attempt to become the world's most efficient farmer. To do that, you need to use a Python-like language, which makes the game look like a fun, beginner-friendly introduction to the programming language (see our pick of the best game development software if you want to realise your own dream game).

That's because most top AI companies - like OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, or Meta - operate in a primarily virtual space, processing unfathomably complex rivers of information into more digital information. AI-adjacent companies like Nvidia, Intel, and Oracle focus on providing the physical infrastructure upon which the AI machines function. Then there are the companies that are using digital intelligence to deliver physical results through automation and augmented experiences, like Tesla and Amazon.

AI organization tools are designed for this new reality. They go beyond filing and scheduling to anticipate needs, adapt plans in real time, capture action items automatically, and surface critical information before you even search for it. In this guide, we've curated the most effective AI productivity tools for the workplace to help you cut through the noise, maintain focus, and manage your work with clarity and precision.

Manual data entry is nobody's dream job. Copying invoices, logging survey results, updating spreadsheets... it's slow and repetitive. And one typo away from chaos. If your days feel like one endless copy-paste loop, it's time to bring in reinforcements. AI-powered tools for data entry are built to tackle the grunt work. They extract, clean, validate, and organize your information-all while you focus on work that actually moves the needle.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized everything from copywriting to medical imaging, but it's a huge time-saver for development teams, too. If your DevOps team is looking for a magic wand to boost security and accuracy, you need an AI tool. This isn't just a nice-to-have, either. AI-powered coding tools enhance the software development lifecycle, making continuous integration and delivery more efficient. They even have the firepower to automate workflows for the most complex development projects.

If hard skills are increasingly being automated, employers are shifting focus to what AI can't replicate: creativity, empathy, critical thinking, and other essential soft skills. For years, technical abilities were king, but the tide may be turning. Indeed's Hiring Lab took a look at job postings and analyzed which soft skills were listed. The top were communication, leadership, and organizational prowess. Forty-three percent of all job listings had at least one soft skill advertised.

As AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot and Codex become more prominent, certain aspects of coding are being automated. For instance, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in the company's first quarter earnings call this year that over 30% of Google's code is AI-generated. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in April that for some company projects, AI writes between 20% and 30% of the code, and it's increasingly using agents to review code, as well.

The infinite options available - there are more than 32,200 linear channels and 89 unique streaming sources in the U.S. alone - can often feel more like a challenge and less like an opportunity. But by simplifying media planning and buying, leveraging automation and unifying data and audiences across platforms, local advertisers are deriving more value from their campaigns and driving better business outcomes - vital in an environment in which marketers everywhere are forced to do more with less.

Managed service providers (MSPs) and managed security service providers (MSSPs) are under increasing pressure to deliver strong cybersecurity outcomes in a landscape marked by rising threats and evolving compliance requirements. At the same time, clients want better protection without managing cybersecurity themselves. Service providers must balance these growing demands with the need to work efficiently, deliver consistent results, and scale their offerings.

At the top of her list are tradespeople, including electricians, plumbers, and repair workers, who perform hands-on tasks in messy, real-world environments that machines still struggle to navigate. She also pointed to care jobs like nursing, primary school teaching, and nursery teaching as roles that heavily rely on empathy, judgment, and social connection - qualities that algorithms can't yet mimic.

And if Walmart U.S. CEO John Furner's instincts are right, that number will hold steady in the coming years, despite all the talk of how the growing use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) might decimate jobs across the economy. "When we look out two years, three years, five years, where I think we'll be is we'll have roughly the same number of people we have today,"

Most business owners who hire me to integrate AI into their workflow are aware of AI trends like agents and automation, but they're completely overwhelmed by it and have no idea where to begin. Their employees tend to have even less AI knowledge and just think of it as a basic chatbot. Other clients want to jump right into complicated AI tools without learning any of the building blocks.

By allowing non-technical professionals to build applications, workflows, and integrations without writing a single line of code, no-code is revolutionizing the way L&D teams operate. Instead of being passive consumers of tools, L&D leaders can now actively design adaptive, personalized, and scalable learning ecosystems. This shift is particularly evident in industries like healthcare, banking, and manufacturing, where compliance, skill agility, and innovation are critical.

What we recognized was, buying a home is a really complex process, and there are a lot of documents and requirements, and just one of those was verification of insurance. As it exists today, that process is complicated, so we saw an opportunity to say, how can we take that piece of it and just simplify it? Tuttle shared that HOIVerify can take a process that once took several days and perform it in seven seconds.