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Corey Spencer is Group Vice President and General Manager of Product Management for AI & Platform at UKG. He leads product strategy and innovation across UKG’s AI, platform, and workforce intelligence initiatives, helping organizations turn workforce data into actionable insights that shape positive business outcomes. With more than 20 years of experience, Spencer is a…

AWS has brought its Amazon Quick assistant directly into Microsoft 365, announcing on August 13, 2026 that extensions for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook are now generally available to Quick customers. The launch, detailed in an AWS Machine Learning Blog post, puts the company’s agentic AI inside the productivity apps where enterprise users already spend…

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In a field where patience is required, a new system pushes us a little nearer to live-streamed human simulation without frustrating rendering rounds. The state-of-the-art in full-length human simulation has come a long way since the possibility of full-body deepfakes first appeared in 2022. By now we have become habituated to the formidable and often-controversial…

Hippocratic AI announced on August 13, 2026 that it is shipping Agentic Orchestrators, a product line that packages its healthcare voice AI agents into coordinated teams aimed at clinical and business outcomes rather than individual tasks. The Menlo Park company is launching more than 30 orchestrators spanning payers, providers, and life sciences customers, according to…

Microsoft is combining its consumer Copilot app and the Microsoft 365 Copilot app into a single application that handles both personal and work accounts, with a worldwide rollout for mobile and web versions beginning in mid-August 2026. The consolidation, detailed in an update posted to Microsoft’s support documentation, is the first structural step toward the…

For most of the history of software, the expensive bit was building it. Teams spent months turning ideas into working code, and that scarcity shaped everything about how the work got organized. Roadmaps got sequenced around whatever engineering capacity was available; architects earned their seat at the table because they understood systems nobody else did;…

When the earth shakes, the clock starts ticking. For first responders in urban environments following an earthquake, the first minutes and hours are crucial for locating survivors and assessing damage. Following a pair of 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that struck northern Venezuela on June 24, emergency technology high above the earth snapped into action…

Hospitals did not adopt artificial intelligence in a single, deliberate moment. It arrived in pieces: an imaging algorithm, a documentation assistant, a staffing forecast, a patient-message generator, a denial prediction model, a scheduling tool. Each product entered through a different department, answered a different need, and was evaluated against a different budget. That fragmented path…