#Automation

#Automation

Got a podcast idea but no time to produce it? Virtual assistant services now include full podcast management. Your VA can handle audio editing, write show notes, upload episodes to platforms, and even create short clips for social media. They use tools like Descript and Adobe Premiere Pro. This saves you almost 10 hours per episode. Many CEOs are using this service to build their personal brand without touching a microphone.

We are now at the point where automation, machine learning and agentic orchestration can genuinely work together. This is not theory. It is already happening in defense and civilian agencies that have moved past pilots and into production, using agents that bring context, consistency and speed to complex workflows while preserving accountability. These seven principles for an agentic government give leaders a practical framework for adopting automation and AI responsibly.

A few months ago, I went to a birthday party at a bar in Neepsend, an old industrial neighbourhood by the River Don in Sheffield. The bar had been a steelworks once, but now it was another example of the international style you find everywhere, from Portland, Oregon, to all the other Portlands in Canada, England, Australia, and New Zealand: exposed brick, steel beams, concrete floors, Edison bulbs. The steelworkers had been transformed into accountants and brand managers, the molten pig iron into £9 cocktails.

The goal was simple: allow teams to take a work item from Azure Boards and send it directly to GitHub Copilot so the coding agent could begin working on it, track progress, and generate a pull request. We are happy to announce that this integration is now being rolled out as generally available 🎉. Customers who participated in the preview helped us validate the experience, find issues, and shape improvements.

If 2023 was the year of shock and 2024 was the year of experimentation, 2025 marks the moment the corporate world finally accepted that artificial intelligence is not just a novelty-it is the new infrastructure of work. According to Justina Nixon-Saintil, IBM's Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility and Chief Impact Officer, the conversation has fundamentally shifted from fascination to urgent integration.

"The vast majority of Codex is built by Codex," OpenAI told us about its new AI coding agent. In interviews with Ars Technica this week, OpenAI employees revealed the extent to which the company now relies on its own AI coding agent, Codex, to build and improve the development tool. "I think the vast majority of Codex is built by Codex, so it's almost entirely just being used to improve itself," said Alexander Embiricos, product lead for Codex at OpenAI, in a conversation on Tuesday.

At the Goldman Sachs U.S. Financial Services Conference on Tuesday, CFO Denis Coleman discussed the company's recently announced OneGS 3.0 initiative-a multiyear overhaul of its OneGS program aimed at integrating AI throughout the bank's operating model to reduce complexity and boost productivity. The effort is a top priority and will involve every division and function across the firm, from business lines to control functions to engineering, Coleman said. "At its core, it's an effort to drive more scale and more growth," he said.

Adnami, a leader in attention-driven digital advertising, today (10th December, 2025) announced the launch of its Agentic Curation product to create custom publisher deals and optimise campaigns fast and at scale. After a year of success delivering curation services to global brands and agencies, Adnami now takes a big leap forward by adding an agentic layer to its programmatic activation and optimisation processes.

Layoffs have hit American workers hard in 2025, particularly in the government and tech sectors. Already this year, well over a million jobs have been lost due to layoffs-and unfortunately, it doesn't look like a cessation of job cuts is on the horizon. Reports say that beverage and snack giant PepsiCo is the latest major American company getting ready to announce layoffs.

Programmatic marketers may not understand AI but they're even more unsure of themselves. That was the undercurrent at this week's Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit in New Orleans. Onstage discussions, offstage pow wows and the usually candid town halls all pointed to the same tension: everyone talking about AI, yet few felt equipped to shape what comes next. The dynamic landed with real force. This moment isn't about automation muscling out humans.

Our bank was set up primarily through a manual underwriting lens to assess things that were a little bit harder, but we thought we could overcome,

Python is one of the most popular programming languages for beginners because it is clear, readable, and used in almost every area of technology. Whether you want to explore automation, build simple tools, analyze data, or eventually move into machine learning, Python gives you a flexible and welcoming place to start. Many new learners begin with online coding courses to understand how Python works and why it is

After two years of experimentation, the material was finally right: a particular mix of thermoplastics and fibreglass that is strong, has no need of extra coating to protect it from sunlight, and is resistant to fouling and marine growth. The perfect base, says Mr Logtenberg, from which to 3D print a boat. Boats need to withstand the unforgiving nature of the marine environment.

There are exactly three meal-prep foods that I have on rotation: shredded beef, shredded pork, and, you guessed it, shredded chicken. All of these involve exactly two steps: Putting spices on a meat, and putting that meat into a crockpot. Every other dinner is leftovers or sandwich meat. Author Don't say I haven't tried. During the pandemic, I went through a jerky phase. I've sampled most of the meal prep boxes.

From human resources and operations to marketing and finance, systems ensure that every process, task, and decision fits into a larger framework of purpose and productivity. A well-designed business system transforms chaos into clarity, allowing teams to understand their roles, measure outcomes, and identify areas for improvement. Systems can be tangible, such as software and workflow tools, or intangible, such as organizational culture and communication protocols. Regardless of their type, their purpose remains the same: to create consistency and reliability.

Adding a large language model to Shortcuts means it's easier to build automations that can simplify your life. Here's how: How This Works Head to Apple Shortcuts, create a new shortcut, and you'll see "Apple Intelligence" as one of the listed applications that's supported. There are a few Actions related to text, allowing you to do things like proofread, summarize, and make a list from text. You also get the ability to create an image, if you want.

In a new study, Gartner claimed AI will "touch all IT work by 2030" as enterprises ramp up adoption of new tools to drive productivity and alleviate strain placed on stretched IT teams. The extent of AI's influence in IT departments will vary, according to the consultancy. In a survey, CIOs said they expect around 75% of work to be done "by humans augmented with AI" by 2030, while around 25% of tasks will be carried out by AI alone.

Every single day-weekend, weekday, rain or shine-whichever robot vacuum I'm currently testing starts running at 9 am. It's always a good sign. I heave a sigh of relief and continue with whatever else I was doing, content that at least that f*cking chore in my house is getting done.