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#1 Teen’s Suicide Turns Mother Against Google, AI Chatbot Startup
Mar 18 2025 // Megan Garcia says her son would still be alive today if it weren’t for a chatbot urging the 14-year-old to take his own life. In a lawsuit with major implications for Silicon Valley, she is seeking to hold Google and...
#2 Staff Cuts Help Fuel GEICO Profit; Auto Insurer Not ‘Pouring Money’ Into AI
May 5 2025 // He’s not yet ready to declare “mission accomplished,” but Ajit Jain, vice chair of Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance operations, said the conglomerate’s personal auto insurer, GEICO, is no longer...
#3 Minnesota Bill Aims to Combat Sexually Explicit, AI-Generated Deepfakes
Mar 7 2025 // Molly Kelley was stunned to discover in June that someone she knew had used widely available “nudification” technology to create highly realistic and sexually explicit videos and images of her, using family...
#4 Gen AI Is Shaking Up Underwriting, but Can it Replace Human Judgment?
Mar 21 2025 // Artificial intelligence technology has continued to evolve, and it’s affecting many areas of insurance from claims to underwriting to customer service, according to panelists at the 2025 PLUS D&O Symposium in New...
#5 Groups Notify Musk’s AI Company of Intent to Sue Over Facility Pollution in Memphis
Jun 18 2025 // The NAACP and an environmental group said Tuesday that they intend to sue Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI over concerns about air pollution generated by a supercomputer facility located near...
#6 Parents of Student Disciplined for Using AI Sue School
Oct 25 2024 // The parents of a high school senior in Massachusetts argued in federal court in Boston on Tuesday that their son was unfairly punished for using artificial intelligence while researching a history project, harming his...
#7 Trump Names David Sacks as White House AI and Crypto Czar
Dec 6 2024 // Donald Trump says he is selecting venture capitalist David Sacks of Craft Ventures LLC to serve as his artificial intelligence and crypto czar, a newly created position that underscores the president-elect’s intent...
#8 In Lawsuit Over Teen’s Death, Judge Rejects Free Speech Rights for AI Chatbots
May 23 2025 // A federal judge on Wednesday rejected arguments made by an artificial intelligence company that its chatbots are protected by the First Amendment — at least for now. The developers behind Character.AI are seeking to...
#9 AI Chatbot Pushed Florida Teen to Suicide, Lawsuit Against Its Creator Alleges
Oct 29 2024 // In the final moments before he took his own life, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III took out his phone and messaged the chatbot that had become his closest friend. For months, Sewell had become increasingly isolated from his...
#10 The Race to Fix Aging Computer Systems Heats Up With AI’s Help
Apr 24 2025 // Kresimir Mudrovcic and his team of programmers spend months on end trawling through computer code that can be three times as old as the crew’s youngest members. Mudrovcic specializes in mainframe technology,...
#11 AI’s Urgent Need for Power Spurs Return of Dirtier Gas Turbines
Jun 4 2025 // If Stargate’s first AI data center is completed next year as planned, the 900-acre site will need enough round-the-clock electricity to support 300,000 homes. But securing that power isn’t as simple as plugging...
#12 Cybersecurity Bosses Grow Increasingly Worried About AI Attacks and Misuse
Jul 17 2025 // Nearly a quarter of cybersecurity bosses said their companies have experienced an attack powered by artificial intelligence in the past year, according to a new survey in which AI risk emerged as the defining...
#13 Industry Critiques Trump’s Auto Insurance Rate Data, Promise to Cut Premiums
Sep 19 2024 // A comment and promise made by former President Donald Trump on Tuesday received a lot of not-so-positive attention from the insurance industry. “Your Automobile Insurance is up 73% — VOTE FOR TRUMP, I’LL CUT...
#14 Disney, Universal Sue AI Image Creator Midjourney for Copyright Infringement
Jun 12 2025 // Walt Disney and Comcast’s Universal filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney on Wednesday, calling its popular AI-powered image generator a “bottomless pit of plagiarism” for its use of the...
#15 Class Action Lawsuit on AI-Related Discrimination Reaches Final Settlement
Nov 25 2024 // Mary Louis’ excitement to move into an apartment in Massachusetts in the spring of 2021 turned to dismay when Louis, a Black woman, received an email saying that a “third-party service” had denied her...
#16 Florida OIR Wants More Data, Warns Insurers About Concurrent Causation Denials
Feb 24 2025 // As consumer complaints have apparently mounted over unpaid hurricane losses, Florida’s top insurance regulator and some lawmakers are signaling new scrutiny on insurance carriers’ claims-handling and other...
#17 Generative AI: A Double Agent Serving Good and Evil in the World of Claims
Dec 30 2024 // Claims professionals need to adapt to the AI evolution at a fast pace as the same technologies used to fight claims fraud are also being used to perpetuate it, according to experts. “It’s truly become an arms...
#18 ‘Bleak’ Data: Insurance Carriers’ Entry Level Hiring Expectations Hit Low Point
Mar 19 2025 // Insurance carriers expecting to add staff in 2025 are largely looking for experienced professionals rather than filling entry level roles, according to the latest Insurance Labor Market Study from Jacobson Group and...
#19 AI Risks Voted Top Concern in Verisk’s Emerging Issues Bracket
Jun 16 2025 // Collegiate teams that competed in the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments turned heads in March. Now, we’re hearing about topics that made it to the final rounds of Verisk’s recent emerging...
#20 Medical Worker Wants Home Insurance to Cover Her Against Patients’ Data Claims
Aug 5 2024 // A Connecticut clinical social worker believes her homeowners insurer should defend and indemnify her against claims she violated patients’ privacy by accessing and sharing their private medical information. She says...
