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What if you could create a cinematic ad so stunning, so polished, that viewers would swear it cost tens of thousands of dollars, only to reveal it was made for mere cents? Below, Robo Nuggets breaks down how AI is transforming ad production, making high-quality, professional-grade content accessible to everyone, regardless of budget or experience. Imagine producing a complete ad, complete with custom visuals, music, and voiceovers, for under $3.

"Our customers don't live in front of a laptop day in and day out; they live in the dirt," Hootman said. "The ability to get the insights and take the action that they need while they're doing the work is very important to them."

"It's hard to find a game company here today that isn't using AI in some way. At the very least, companies are using either ChatGPT or Gemini."

The robot, with a glowing circle for a face and a fully electric, battery-powered body, is so advanced that it will soon be working alongside human factory workers for parent company Hyundai, the companies claimed. Hyundai said it plans on mass-producing Atlas as "production-ready humanoid robots" that will be put to work at the automaker's car plants, starting with the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant in Savannah, Georgia. The company estimates it will produce 30,000 robots annually starting in 2028.

Many current gig economy jobs are at risk of automation as AI usage expands, Tim Fung, founder and CEO of Airtasker, said in an interview with Business Insider. Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash are already making some deliveries using self-driving vehicles. Fung estimated that human ride-hailing drivers could be eliminated within three to five years. AI is also likely to replace many data science, coding, and engineering workers in the near term, Fung said.

This notion masquerading as a truism sounds good. We like it. We want it to be true. It alleviates the need to worry about what AI is doing to our profession. It assures we will all have jobs in the future gazing out the window and thinking all day. And getting paid vast sums of money to do so. It's in every press release and white paper from vendors.

Programming with AI is still in its infancy, and yet it has already redefined what programming will be about in the immediate future. As a programmer, you are going to interact with a frigging robot that writes code on your behalf. What was science fiction yesterday is now a new reality, and it raises many questions. I won't pretend to have any answers here, just assorted thoughts.

With 93 percent of people checking their inboxes at least once a day, email is still one of the highest-ROI channels out there. But over the past few years, email marketing has become easier to do poorly. Artificial intelligence and automation have removed friction, but they've also made it easier to overlook the basics that mailbox providers now scrutinize more closely. Here are some of those basics, and the problems they bring.

Jain said he had tried to automate internal workflows at Glean, including an effort to use AI to automatically identify employees' top priorities for the week and document them for leadership. "It has all the context inside the company to make it happen," said Jain, adding that he thought AI would "magically" do the work. The idea seemed simple, but it hasn't worked.

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.

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.