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Bjak Founder Weighs IPO as Malaysia Insurtech Seeks Expansion Into Europe
Dec 16 2025 // Bjak Sdn, Malaysia’s largest online insurance aggregator, is mulling an initial public offering within the next two years as it seeks to enter Europe. Bjak is eyeing new markets in Spain and Germany in 2026 following...
State Insurance Legislators ‘Greatly Disturbed’ by Trump AI Regulation Order
Dec 15 2025 // The National Council of Insurance Legislators have come out against President Donald Trump’s executive order last week, seen as a hinderance to state regulation of artificial intelligence. NCOIL officers in a...
White House AI Czar Defends Trump Push to Rein In State Rules
Dec 15 2025 // White House AI czar David Sacks defended President Donald Trump’s push to rein in state-level regulation of artificial intelligence over objections from Democrats, saying the move seeks to ease a growing compliance...
Drowning in Busywork? Tech to Help Agencies Reclaim Time and Boost Efficiency
Dec 15 2025 // With the winter holidays quickly approaching, independent agencies are looking for ways to reclaim precious time—to unwind and recharge. Between client requests, policy servicing, sales demands, carrier logins, and...
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...
Chubb, The Hartford, Liberty and Travelers Team Up on Surety Tech Launch
Dec 9 2025 // Four surety companies—Chubb, The Hartford, Liberty Mutual and Travelers—announced the launch of a technology company that will feature a shared digital infrastructure to advance the surety industry. According to a...
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...
Satellite Startup ICEYE Raises Funds at $2.8 Billion Valuation as Europe Boosts Defense
Dec 8 2025 // ICEYE, a Finnish satellite developer with a number of defense contracts, has raised money at a €2.4 billion ($2.8 billion) valuation, capitalizing on the military spending boom across Europe. Venture firm General...
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...
People Moves: Westfield Specialty International Taps Zurich’s Watson to Lead New Cyber Offering; Liberty Names Delvos From Corvus as Head of Cyber and Tech E&O, Europe
Dec 4 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Westfield Specialty International and Liberty Specialty Markets. A summary of these new hires follows here. Westfield Specialty Int’l Taps...
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...
