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Thailand’s Record Floods Paralyze Key Hubs for Tech and Car Parts
Dec 2 2025 // Thailand said floods that have devastated much of the country’s south have “paralyzed” the flow of high tech components and car parts to neighboring Malaysia, potentially benefiting rival exporters in...
Here’s Why Two AI Copyright Cases Had Two Very Different Outcomes
Dec 2 2025 // Artificial intelligence companies and the creative industries are locked in an ongoing battle, being played out in the courts. The thread that pulls all these lawsuits together is copyright. There are now over 60 ongoing...
Dozens of State Attorneys General Urge Congress Not to Block AI Laws
Dec 2 2025 // Republican and Democratic attorneys general from 35 states and the District of Columbia urged congressional leaders on Tuesday not to block state laws governing artificial intelligence, warning of “disastrous...
Allianz Unit Discussing Call Center Jobs Cuts in AI Transition
Nov 26 2025 // Allianz SE is in talks about potential job cuts at its assistance and travel insurance subsidiary Allianz Partners as it seeks to use more artifical intelligence. The cuts will likely affect call center positions, the...
AI + Human BPO: The New Model for Insurance Process Automation
Nov 26 2025 // In insurance, automation has long been viewed as an “either/or” scenario-either a task is handled by AI, or it’s assigned to a BPO team. That’s no longer the case. Today’s most successful...
Massive Wildfire Liabilities Push Utilities to Use AI to Stop Blazes
Nov 25 2025 // On the hunt for cheap and fast strategies to prevent deadly wildfires, utilities across the US and Europeare contracting with a handful of artificial intelligence startups to map wildfire risk along thousands of miles of...
How AI Could Reboot Britain’s Services-Heavy Economy
Nov 25 2025 // When accountants at mid-tier firm Moore Kingston Smith began using artificial intelligence to speed up their work, profit margins jumped. Colleagues in another team running checks against corporate fraud created a report...
Insurance Customers Skeptical About AI Processes and Benefits
Nov 25 2025 // While insurance consumers may be warming up to artificial intelligence, 68% say they believe the insurance company gets most of or all the benefits of AI adoption. AI is becoming more ingrained and accepted as part of the...
US States Take Aim at Data-Driven Pricing to Ease Consumer Pain
Nov 24 2025 // Even as the White House seeks to roll back state laws on artificial intelligence, states are pursuing an increasing number of bills to ban tech-driven pricing practices in an effort to bring consumers relief from high...
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...
AI Triage for Insurance Submissions: Faster, Smarter Routing
Nov 18 2025 // Handling insurance submissions has always been a high-volume, high-friction task-especially for MGAs and wholesalers working across multiple carriers and programs. Submissions come in through email, broker portals, and...
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...
