automation

Automation is the technology-enabled process of performing tasks with minimal human intervention, often using software, robotics, and AI to streamline operations and reduce manual effort.

Why it’s in the news: It is in the news due to its rapid evolution with AI, its integration into enterprise software, and the recent shutdown of a key startup in the space.

Latest on automation

• From Automation To Autonomy : How AI Is Redefining How Businesses Run
• The State of Fleet Maintenance: AI, Automation, and Cost of Ownership
• Confluence adds AI-enabled automation to its product suite.
• AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team
• From Rule-Based Automation to AI Agents: The Future of Enterprise Applications
• Three key learnings from SuiteWorld 2025: Why context, not automation, is the real AI prize
• productivity gains from automation
• automation makes labor arbitrage irrelevant
• The automation that was supposed to reduce breach surface area instead created new pathways that security teams didn't know existed until after they were exploited.
• But automation doesn't eliminate vulnerability; it scales it.
• The company uses artificial intelligence and automation to manage transaction volumes while maintaining security protocols and user trust.
• When you automate at volume, you're also automating the failure modes — and the audit trail becomes the liability

Connections

28 entities linked to automation across the news graph.