Browsing: AI & Automation

Financial Times columnist Sarah O’Connor speaks to EI’s Caitlin Allen about her book, ‘We Are Not Machines: The Fight for the Future of Work’, and why we still have control over how automation will shape our lives.

In August 2026, Yum! Brands reported that director Kathleen Oberg had been appointed to the company’s Audit Committee, while management highlighted recent gains from AI-driven automation in delivery and inventory systems across brands such as Pizza Hut.

Effective control of fluid flows is critical across transportation, energy and medicine, where it can increase lift, reduce drag, enhance mixing and attenuate noise1,2,3. Yet fluids are notoriously difficult to control because they involve high-dimensional, nonlinear and multiscale dynamics that resist conventional approaches4,5,6. Reinforcement learning has driven remarkable progress in fields such as protein folding…

Scaling cloud migrations with agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore starts with recognizing where large-scale migrations break down. Discovery consumes weeks per application. Engineers write infrastructure code from scratch for each workload. Post-migration operations devolve into reactive firefighting. Multiply those bottlenecks across over 300 applications and a fixed fiscal year deadline, and migration programs struggle…

Interim chancellor Eric Wilcots and founding dean of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s new College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence (CAI) Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau presented a measured view of artificial intelligence in higher education at a Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association (WFAA) virtual panel on August 18.

ENCO will demonstrate solutions across captioning, translation, AI production tools, automation, and virtual production at IBC2026 (Stand 7.A34, Amsterdam RAI, September 11–14). Several will make their IBC debut.

HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn. —The Tennessee Valley Authority is increasing their electricity rate for data centers as it prepares for growing power demand from artificial intelligence and other large computing facilities across its service territory.

KnowledgeForge is about mining gold from the IT Service Management (ITSM) ticket graveyard: the resolved incident tickets whose knowledge never reaches a knowledge base article. Enterprise IT support teams resolve thousands of tickets every month, and each one holds something useful: a symptom, a root cause, and the fix an engineer applied. That knowledge stays…

Serval is making Catalyst, its AI agent for building enterprise automations, generally available Thursday and enabling it by default for customers — allowing teams of AI agents to decide what should be automated and then build the automation itself.

Computer scientist Melanie Mitchell discusses why artificial intelligence doesn’t “think” or “reason” like humans, and how we can create better methods for measuring machine cognition. Read Later