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Anthropic Thwarts Hacker Attempts to Misuse Claude AI for Cybercrime
Aug 28 2025 // Anthropic said on Wednesday it had detected and blocked hackers attempting to misuse its Claude AI system to write phishing emails, create malicious code and circumvent safety filters. The company’s findings,...
As AI Becomes Part of Everyday Life, it Brings a Hidden Climate Cost
Aug 27 2025 // Marissa Loewen first started using artificial intelligence in 2014 as a project management tool. She has autism and ADHD and said it helped immensely with organizing her thoughts. “We try to use it conscientiously...
Musk Sues Apple, OpenAI, Saying They Hurt AI Competition
Aug 26 2025 // Elon Musk accused Apple Inc. and OpenAI in a lawsuit of unfairly favoring the artificial intelligence company across iPhones and thwarting competition for other chatbot makers. Musk’s X and xAI seek billions of...
Trump Administration Weighs Sanctions on Officials Implementing EU Tech Law
Aug 26 2025 // President Donald Trump’s administration is considering imposing sanctions on European Union or member state officials responsible for implementing the bloc’s landmark Digital Services Act, two sources familiar...
FTC Chair Warns Tech Firms Not to Weaken Data Privacy to Comply With EU, UK Laws
Aug 25 2025 // The chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission warned Apple, Alphabet, and other technology companies that efforts to comply with British and European digital content laws could violate U.S. law if they weaken privacy...
Viewpoint – AI Will Replace Most Humans, But Then What?: Jen
Aug 21 2025 // The opinions expressed here are those of the author, the CEO and co-CIO of Eurizon SLJ asset management. Is technology more job augmenting or job replacing? This has been a long-standing debate. But recent academic work...
Court Invalidates Maryland Digital Ad Tax for Blocking Tech Firms From Telling About It
Aug 20 2025 // Maryland’s first-in-the-nation tax on digital advertising violated the Constitution, a federal appeals court says, because blocking Big Tech from telling customers about the tax violates the companies’ right to...
Aon Accused of Contributing to Collapse of Startup Vesttoo
Aug 15 2025 // Insurance broker Aon Plc was accused in a civil lawsuit of helping cause the collapse of Vesttoo Ltd., an Israeli insurance startup once valued at $1 billion that went bankrupt after disclosing certain documents...
Insurtech Looks to ‘Redefine’ Insurance With Autonomous AI Agents by 2026
Aug 13 2025 // Insurtech Superagent AI issued a press release yesterday to announce its goal of starting the first fully autonomous AI insurance agent by the end of the year. “We’re not just reshaping insurance. We’re...
‘Data-Driven’ Workers’ Compensation Writer Pie Insurance Enters Connecticut
Aug 13 2025 // Pie Insurance announced it is now offering its “data-driven” workers’ compensation insurance in Connecticut, targeting the state’s more than 365,000 small businesses. “Connecticut’s...
Insurtech Investment Hits $60B Milestone But Pales AI Figures
Aug 11 2025 // Artificial intelligence is quickly reshaping the insurance landscape, and Gallagher Re’s global head of insurtech, Andrew Johnston, warned in the company’s latest Global InsurTech Report that this trend...
Insurtech Root Swings to Q2 Profit on Growth in Partnership Channel
Aug 7 2025 // Root Inc. swung to second quarter net income of $22 million versus a loss of $7.8 million a year ago during the same time. Results build off net income of $18.2 million for Q1 2025, reversing a loss of $6.2 million for Q1...
Texas Embraces Second-Life EV Battery Innovation for Grid Stability
Aug 7 2025 // East of San Antonio in Bexar County, 500 electric vehicle batteries at the end of their automotive lives will soon be repurposed to provide energy storage for Texas’ electric grid, a California company, B2U Storage...
Hiscox Agrees to Acquire US Specialist Insurtech
Aug 6 2025 // Global specialist insurer Hiscox announced its agreement to acquire a specialist insurtech business focused on addressing the insurance needs of small businesses operating in sectors such as technology start-ups, life...
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 Intelligence
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...
