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Silent Cyber Threats: How ‘Shadow AI’ Could Undermine Digital Health Defenses
Nov 21 2025 // Across Canada, doctors and nurses are quietly using public artificial-intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and Gemini to write clinical notes, translate discharge summaries or summarize patient data. But...
Major Music Labels Strike Deals With New AI Streaming Service
Nov 20 2025 // The world’s largest music companies have licensed their works to a music startup called Klay, which is building a streaming service that will allow users to remake songs using artificial intelligence tools. Klay is...
Dyad Launches New AI Capabilities to Streamline Email and Document Processing for MGAs, Wholesalers, and Program Admins
Nov 20 2025 // New Email Triage Agent and AI Extractor automate routing and data capture to accelerate high-volume workflows. BREA, CA, UNITED STATES, November 19, 2025 — Dyad, a software provider powering modern insurance...
Trump Urges Congress to Block State-Level AI Regulation
Nov 20 2025 // President Donald Trump called on Congress to pass a federal standard governing oversight of artificial intelligence and warned that varied regulation at the state level risked slowing the development of an emerging...
Amazon, Google Named by EU Among ‘Critical’ Tech Providers for Finance Industry
Nov 19 2025 // European Union regulators on Tuesday designated 19 technology companies, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft, as critical third-party computing providers for the bloc’s finance industry. Under...
Has Insurtech Funding Found a Floor?
Nov 19 2025 // Two separate reports published this month show that while quarterly insurtech deal counts have plummeted from heights attained in 2021 and 2022, dollar levels invested in insurtechs have stabilized since late 2022. While...
How Big Tech Is Faring Against US Antitrust Lawsuits?
Nov 19 2025 // A federal judge ruling that Meta Platforms does not hold an illegal social media monopoly handed Big Tech its first decisive win against the antitrust crackdown started in President Donald Trump’s first term. Here...
No Firm Is Immune if AI Bubble Bursts, Google CEO Tells BBC
Nov 18 2025 // Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said no company would be unscathed if the artificial intelligence boom collapses, as soaring valuations and heavy investment in the sector fuel concerns of a bubble. Pichai said in an...
AI-Induced Psychosis: The Danger of Humans and Machines Hallucinating Together
Nov 18 2025 // On Christmas Day 2021, Jaswant Singh Chail scaled the walls of Windsor Castle with a loaded crossbow. When confronted by police, he stated: “I’m here to kill the queen.” In the preceding weeks, Chail had...
Anthropic Warns of AI-Driven Hacking Campaign Linked to China
Nov 17 2025 // A team of researchers has uncovered what they say is the first reported use of artificial intelligence to direct a hacking campaign in a largely automated fashion. The AI company Anthropic said this week that it disrupted...
Insurtech Hippo Reverses Q3 Loss During ‘Breakout Quarter’
Nov 17 2025 // Insurtech Hippo posted third-quarter 2025 net income of $98 million, compared with a net loss of $9 million a year ago during the same period. San Jose, California-based Hippo’s Q3 combined ratio improved to...
Chevron Picks Texas for First AI Data Center Power Project
Nov 14 2025 // Chevron Corp. chose West Texas as the site of its first project to provide natural gas-fired power to a data center, the beginning of a new line of business for the oil giant to capitalize on the boom in artificial...
AI Is Writing Performance Reviews. What Could Go Wrong?
Nov 14 2025 // JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s decision to let managers use artificial intelligence for help writing performance reviews stands to bring relief to one of bosses’ most dreaded annual tasks. It also raises questions...
PwC: Insurance Execs Say Agentic AI Leading Industry Transformation
Nov 14 2025 // More than half of insurance executives say generative and agentic artificial intelligence are the technological investments that will have the most transformative impact on the industry over the next three years, according...
Anzen in California Raises $16M to Scale AI Platform for Insurance Distribution
Nov 13 2025 // San Francisco, California-based Anzen announced a $16 million Series A funding round led by Madrona, with participation from Sandbox Industries, SNR, Andreessen Horowitz and other investors. The round brings Anzen’s...
Founders Fund Backs Startup Bringing AI to Plumbers and Roofers
Nov 13 2025 // Large companies have been stuffing artificial intelligence software into every possible product for years. Now, Founders Fund is backing a startup that wants to help small businesses use the technology, too. Netic, which...
Chubb Launches AI-Powered Embedded Insurance Engine in ‘Chubb Studio’
Nov 13 2025 // Chubb on Wednesday announced the debut of a new artificial intelligence-powered optimization engine within Chubb Studio, its global technology platform for embedded insurance distribution partnerships. The new capability...
People Moves: Markel Int’l Promotes Davies as MD of Newly Created London Mkt Business; Lockton Re Taps Aon’s Khan as Head of Property Innovation & Solutions
Nov 13 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at insurer Markel International and broker Lockton Re. A summary of these new hires follows here. Markel International Promotes Davies as MD of Newly Created...
Watchdog Group Demands OpenAI Withdraw AI Video App Sora Over Deepfakes
Nov 13 2025 // The tech industry is moving fast and breaking things again — and this time it is humanity’s shared reality and control of our likeness before and after death — thanks to artificial intelligence image-generation...
Meta Pledges $1 Billion to Build AI Data Center in Wisconsin
Nov 13 2025 // Meta Platforms Inc. is spending more than $1 billion to build a data center in Wisconsin that will power artificial intelligence work, its latest investment in the infrastructure needed for the fast-moving AI race. The...
