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AI, Crypto Securities Class Actions on Track for Highs in 2025: Cornerstone
Jul 31 2025 // Overall numbers of securities class actions filed in the first half of 2025 are in line with last year, but artificial intelligence- and cryptocurrency-related filings are on the rise. According to a report by Cornerstone...
Viewpoint: ‘AI Action Plan’ Does Not Address AGI, Superintelligence, or Alternate Intel
Jul 31 2025 // On July 23, 2025, the White House released its policy document entitled Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan. The Action Plan provides a thorough analysis of strategies, measures, and potential concerns to...
AI May Be Needed to Fight Back Against Deepfakes Threat
Jul 30 2025 // The phone rings. It’s the secretary of state calling. Or is it? For Washington insiders, seeing and hearing is no longer believing, thanks to a spate of recent incidents involving deepfakes impersonating top...
Applied Underwriters Starts MGA Platform Innovation Risk
Jul 29 2025 // Applied Underwriters said it has launched Innovation Risk, a new managing general agent (MGA) platform that will focus on casualty, accident, and life underwriting. The MGA, while firmly rooted in proven, traditional...
Judge Sanctions Lawyers Defending Alabama’s Prisons For Citing Fake Cases From AI
Jul 28 2025 // A federal judge reprimanded lawyers with a high-priced firm defending Alabama’s prison system for using ChatGPT to write court filings with “completely made up” case citations. U.S. District Judge Anna...
Trump’s AI Plan Urges Lighter Touch by FTC in Win for Microsoft
Jul 25 2025 // Microsoft Corp. stands to gain from new White House AI guidelines that call on the US Federal Trade Commission to show more restraint in probes involving artificial intelligence and stand down on cases that put “AI...
AIUC Emerges From Stealth With $15M Seed to Help Enterprises Deploy AI Safely
Jul 25 2025 // Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) is coming out of stealth mode with a $15 million seed round. The San Francisco-based company said July 23 that it seeks to unlock the “next wave of artificial...
White House Unveils Sweeping AI Action Plan to Boost Development
Jul 23 2025 // The Trump administration called for boosting artificial intelligence development in the US by loosening regulations and expanding energy supply for data centers under new guidelines that also urged the federal government...
AI Should Run on 100% Renewable Energy by 2030, UN Chief Says
Jul 23 2025 // Major tech firms should commit to fully powering data centers with renewable energy by 2030, said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. Big tech also must be responsible in its use of water for cooling,...
People Moves: Novatae Names Arora as VP Data, Business Intelligence & Innovation
Jul 22 2025 // Anju Arora Novatae Risk Group (Novatae), headquartered in Dallas, Texas, named Anju Arora to the newly created role of vice president of data, business intelligence and innovation. Arora will spearhead Novatae’s...
Fashion Startup Founder Charged With $300M Fraud Freed on $1M Bail
Jul 22 2025 // A former chief executive of two clothing technology companies was released on $1 million bail Friday after pleading not guilty to charges alleging she cheated investors of over $300 million over the past six...
Stop the Tech Juggle: Why Insurance Agencies Need a Single System to Thrive
Jul 22 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by EZLynx. You work hard to give your clients a smooth insurance experience — and the way your agency runs behind the scenes should be just as streamlined. Even with the right...
Washington Board to Eye Insurer AI Use
Jul 21 2025 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer convened her first Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board meeting in Seattle to look at the insurance industry’s use of AI and to get recommendations on policy...
AI Models With Systemic Risks Given Pointers on How to Comply With EU AI Rules
Jul 18 2025 // The European Commission set out guidelines on Friday to help AI models it has determined have systemic risks and face tougher obligations to mitigate potential threats comply with European Union artificial intelligence...
Google to Offer Free AI Certification Courses to Virginia Job Seekers
Jul 18 2025 // Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced on Tuesday that Google will partner with his administration to provide free and low-cost artificial intelligence certification courses to Virginians as part of his office’s...
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...
Florida County Leads With High-Tech 911 Emergency Response System
Jul 16 2025 // NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — When an emergency happens in Collier County, Florida, the 911 calls go to one of the most high-tech communications centers in the U.S., where callers can send text and video from the scene to...
Pennsylvania Digital Forgery Law Targets AI Scams and Financial Exploitation
Jul 16 2025 // A new Pennsylvania law intended to crack down on AI-powered fraud and financial crimes makes it a felony to use artificial intelligence to produce non-consensual “forged digital likenesses” like deepfakes or...
Trump Set to Outline AI Priorities in Speech Asserting US Edge
Jul 15 2025 // President Donald Trump plans to deliver a major address on artificial intelligence next week to outline his vision for ensuring American dominance in AI, marking his biggest statement on an emerging technology at the heart...
AI Is Already Showing Signs of Slashing UK Job Openings
Jul 15 2025 // UK businesses are dialing back hiring for jobs that are likely to be affected by the rollout of artificial intelligence, a study found, suggesting the new technology is accentuating a slowdown in the nation’s labor...
