Category: Automation & Workflow Bots

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onAugust 28, 2026

Skan AI Raises $63M to Map How Work Actually Happens—Because Enterprise Agents Keep Automating Processes That Don’t Exist

$681.5M went into AI agent startups in the first 15 days of August 2026. The largest cheques didn’t go to agents. They went to the layer…

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Artur Markus

onAugust 26, 2026

Sola Raises $17.5M Series A From Andreessen Horowitz After 5× Revenue Growth—Screen-Recording Automation Replaces Traditional RPA

Two MIT dropouts convinced a16z that watching someone work is better training data than writing code. Their $17.5M bet suggests RPA’s…

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Artur Markus

onJuly 14, 2026

Akeneo Launches Agentic Ziggy on July 8—Product Cloud’s AI Orchestration Layer Coordinates Specialist Agents for Data Modeling, Schema Mapping, and Quality Checks

Akeneo just became the first PIM vendor to ship a workforce instead of an assistant. Their new Agentic Ziggy doesn’t answer questions—it…

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Artur Markus

onJune 19, 2026

ChatGPT Tasks Launches in Beta on January 15, 2025—OpenAI Adds Scheduled Automation for Paid Subscribers with 10-Task Limit

OpenAI shipped scheduled automation inside ChatGPT on January 14, 2025, capping it at ten tasks per user. The company that built the…

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Artur Markus

onJune 16, 2026

Definely Raises $30M Series B Led by Revaia—Legal AI Workflow Startup Attracts Clio on June 16, 2025

Clio just invested in a company that automates the work Clio’s own customers do manually. That’s not competition—that’s…

Artur Markus

onMay 23, 2026

Figure AI’s Helix 02 Replaces 109,504 Lines of C++ with 10M-Parameter Neural Network—Humanoid Robot Completes 61-Action Dishwasher Task in 4 Minutes

Figure AI just mass-deleted over 100,000 lines of carefully engineered robotics code. A 10-million-parameter neural network now does the job better.

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Artur Markus

onApril 26, 2026

Zapier Agents Hit General Availability with Multi-Step Memory—All Five Major Workflow Platforms Ship Agent Builders in Single Quarter

Five competitors shipping the same feature within 90 days isn’t a product launch—it’s an industry admitting that rule-based…

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Artur Markus

onFebruary 28, 2026

UiPath Acquires WorkFusion to Build Agentic AI Platform for Financial Crime Compliance—Expands Beyond Traditional RPA Into Autonomous Workflow Intelligence

UiPath just spent hundreds of millions to make its core product obsolete. The February 2026 WorkFusion acquisition marks the moment the RPA…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 21, 2026

UiPath Screen Agent Hits 53.6% on OSWorld Benchmark—First Enterprise RPA Tool to Claim #1 Ranking for Agentic Automation

UiPath just outperformed OpenAI’s own agents on the most rigorous test of autonomous computer operation—and they did it by swapping…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 12, 2026

The Home Depot Deploys Thousands of Agentic AI Agents Across Stores in Days—Not Months—As Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise Turns Retail Workflow Automation Into a Race Against Obsolescence

The Home Depot just compressed an 18-month enterprise AI rollout into days. On January 11, 2026, the company deployed autonomous AI agents to…

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