Latest Artificial Intelligence Headlines
All the headlines from our Artificial Intelligence Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Rise of AI Impacts Grand Rapids Region, Companies Face Talent and Market Challenges
Dec 12 2025 // West Michigan remains a leader in job and population growth across Michigan, but there are signs momentum has slowed amid staffing challenges, tariffs and the rise of artificial intelligence. Forty-six percent of Grand...
Trump Signs Order Seeking to Limit State-Level AI Regulation
Dec 12 2025 // President Donald Trump signed an order aimed at thwarting state-level regulation of artificial intelligence through lawsuits and funding cuts, handing a win to tech industry leaders who’ve pressed for preemption of...
UConn, Georgia Tech Students Win ACORD Challenge Using AI Tools in Pet Insurance
Dec 11 2025 // The insurance industry data standards organization ACORD announced today that University of Connecticut graduate student Manasa Ramaka has won the ACORD Student Challenge 2025, a national competition that asks university...
Register Now for IJ’s ‘AI Tools for Agents’ Demo Day on Dec. 10
Dec 9 2025 // Insurance Journal’s Risky Future series will host the “AI Tools for Retail Agents” Demo Day, which offers free AI tool demonstrations designed exclusively for retail insurance agencies. The latest online...
Trump to Issue Order Creating National AI Rule
Dec 8 2025 // President Donald Trump said on Monday he would sign an executive order this week that he said would create a single national rule for artificial intelligence, which the industry has said is necessary to override disparate...
Health Department Unveils Strategy to Expand its Adoption of AI Tech
Dec 8 2025 // The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday outlined a strategy to expand its use of artificial intelligence, building on the Trump administration’s enthusiastic embrace of the rapidly advancing...
New York Times Sues Perplexity AI for ‘Illegal’ Copying of Content
Dec 5 2025 // The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI on Friday, claiming that the artificial intelligence startup was copying, distributing and displaying millions of its articles without permission. The startup has...
The Rise of AI Reasoning Models Comes With a Big Energy Tradeoff
Dec 5 2025 // Nearly all leading artificial intelligence developers are focused on building AI models that mimic the way humans reason, but new research shows these cutting-edge systems can be far more energy intensive, adding to...
Political Consultant Whose AI Robocalls Mimicked Biden Defies Court Order
Dec 5 2025 // A political consultant who sent artificial intelligence-generated robocalls mimicking former President Joe Biden to New Hampshire Democrats said he will not pay $22,500 to three voters despite a recent federal court...
Tech Industry Drive to Block State AI Laws Hits Wall in Congress
Dec 3 2025 // A powerful coalition of tech companies backed by the White House’s artificial intelligence chief appears to have failed to persuade lawmakers to use a must-pass defense bill to block state governments from regulating...
Bank of England Sees Rising Financial Risks From AI and Lending
Dec 3 2025 // The Bank of England said on Tuesday that threats to Britain’s financial system had risen this year due to stretched valuations of companies investing in artificial intelligence, risky lending and bets with borrowed...
Viewpoint: Agentic AI Is Coming to Insurance Industry – Much Faster Than You Think
Dec 3 2025 // There has been much discussion in the insurance industry about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it can take on mundane, laborious tasks and complete them in a fraction of the time it would take a human. But the...
People Moves: Simplifai, Providing AI for Claims, Names New Board Members
Dec 3 2025 // Simplifai, a provider of agentic artificial intelligence for property-casualty insurance claims, with offices in Miami, Florida, and Oslo, Norway, has named new members to its board of directors. Noel Hamill and Nils...
Here’s Why Two AI Copyright Cases Had Two Very Different Outcomes
Dec 2 2025 // Artificial intelligence companies and the creative industries are locked in an ongoing battle, being played out in the courts. The thread that pulls all these lawsuits together is copyright. There are now over 60 ongoing...
Dozens of State Attorneys General Urge Congress Not to Block AI Laws
Dec 2 2025 // Republican and Democratic attorneys general from 35 states and the District of Columbia urged congressional leaders on Tuesday not to block state laws governing artificial intelligence, warning of “disastrous...
Allianz Unit Discussing Call Center Jobs Cuts in AI Transition
Nov 26 2025 // Allianz SE is in talks about potential job cuts at its assistance and travel insurance subsidiary Allianz Partners as it seeks to use more artifical intelligence. The cuts will likely affect call center positions, the...
AI + Human BPO: The New Model for Insurance Process Automation
Nov 26 2025 // In insurance, automation has long been viewed as an “either/or” scenario-either a task is handled by AI, or it’s assigned to a BPO team. That’s no longer the case. Today’s most successful...
Massive Wildfire Liabilities Push Utilities to Use AI to Stop Blazes
Nov 25 2025 // On the hunt for cheap and fast strategies to prevent deadly wildfires, utilities across the US and Europeare contracting with a handful of artificial intelligence startups to map wildfire risk along thousands of miles of...
How AI Could Reboot Britain’s Services-Heavy Economy
Nov 25 2025 // When accountants at mid-tier firm Moore Kingston Smith began using artificial intelligence to speed up their work, profit margins jumped. Colleagues in another team running checks against corporate fraud created a report...
Insurance Customers Skeptical About AI Processes and Benefits
Nov 25 2025 // While insurance consumers may be warming up to artificial intelligence, 68% say they believe the insurance company gets most of or all the benefits of AI adoption. AI is becoming more ingrained and accepted as part of the...
