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Building an AI Agent for Oracle HCM Journeys: What I Learned Along the Way

Some areas in Oracle are configured once and rarely touched again. Journeys are not one of those areas. They may require regular updates and additions as the organization grows, and when those needs come up, HR teams can often feel lost on where to start. That is what led me to build an AI agent that guides them through the process simply by using a chat window. My goal for this project was to learn the ins and outs of building an AI agent, and it proved to be a very fun challenge.

What I Built

The agent creates Journeys and Journey Tasks through a conversation. You start by defining the Journey itself, then walk through the tasks that make it up, including task type, performer, initiator, expiration, and due date. If you already have a Journey Template ID, you can also use the agent to modify an existing journey...

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Judge Approves $1.5 Million SEC-Musk Settlement Over Twitter Investment

The opinion says whether it's fair is ‘for our citizenry to decide at the ballot box.’ In 2022, the US Securities and Exchange Commission under former chair Gary Gensler brought a case against Elon Musk regarding his acquisition of Twitter. The regulator questioned Musk's 11-day delay

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Smart glasses are having a privacy reckoning, and Meta is caught in the middle

The smart-glasses backlash has reached the courtroom. From 20 July, New York will ban recording eyewear from every one of its 1,240 courts. It is the first US state to go that far. An internal memo from the New York State Unified Court System sets out the rule, first

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A tritium ‘nuclear battery’ just reached orbit for the first time

The nuclear age has quietly reached commercial spaceflight. City Labs, a Miami firm, has launched BOHR, which it calls the world’s first commercial nuclear-powered satellite and the first nuclear CubeSat. The craft is about the size of a softball. It flew on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare on 7

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Venus Aerospace raises $91M to build its ‘detonation’ rocket engine

A Texas startup has raised $91m to build a rocket engine most of the industry once wrote off as too hard. Venus Aerospace announced a $91m Series B to develop its Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine, or RDRE. Mercury Fund led the round. The backers read like a defence roll-call. Lockheed

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Judge Approves $1.5 Million SEC-Musk Settlement Over Twitter Investment

Smart glasses are having a privacy reckoning, and Meta is caught in the middle

A tritium ‘nuclear battery’ just reached orbit for the first time

Venus Aerospace raises $91M to build its ‘detonation’ rocket engine