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#1 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...
#2 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...
#3 UK Car Theft Crisis Pits Manufacturers Against High-Tech Gangs
Jun 20 2025 // To the untrained eye, the red shipping container at Felixstowe looked no different to the thousands of others stacked up at Britain’s busiest seaport. Destined for Africa, its contents were listed as “household...
#4 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...
#5 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...
#6 Teen’s Suicide Turns Mother Against Google, AI Chatbot Startup
Mar 18 2025 // Megan Garcia says her son would still be alive today if it weren’t for a chatbot urging the 14-year-old to take his own life. In a lawsuit with major implications for Silicon Valley, she is seeking to hold Google and...
#7 Staff Cuts Help Fuel GEICO Profit; Auto Insurer Not ‘Pouring Money’ Into AI
May 5 2025 // He’s not yet ready to declare “mission accomplished,” but Ajit Jain, vice chair of Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance operations, said the conglomerate’s personal auto insurer, GEICO, is no longer...
#8 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...
#9 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...
#10 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...
#11 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...
#12 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...
#13 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...
#14 Minnesota Bill Aims to Combat Sexually Explicit, AI-Generated Deepfakes
Mar 7 2025 // Molly Kelley was stunned to discover in June that someone she knew had used widely available “nudification” technology to create highly realistic and sexually explicit videos and images of her, using family...
#15 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...
#16 Gen AI Is Shaking Up Underwriting, but Can it Replace Human Judgment?
Mar 21 2025 // Artificial intelligence technology has continued to evolve, and it’s affecting many areas of insurance from claims to underwriting to customer service, according to panelists at the 2025 PLUS D&O Symposium in New...
#17 Groups Notify Musk’s AI Company of Intent to Sue Over Facility Pollution in Memphis
Jun 18 2025 // The NAACP and an environmental group said Tuesday that they intend to sue Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI over concerns about air pollution generated by a supercomputer facility located near...
#18 Parents of Student Disciplined for Using AI Sue School
Oct 25 2024 // The parents of a high school senior in Massachusetts argued in federal court in Boston on Tuesday that their son was unfairly punished for using artificial intelligence while researching a history project, harming his...
#19 Trump Names David Sacks as White House AI and Crypto Czar
Dec 6 2024 // Donald Trump says he is selecting venture capitalist David Sacks of Craft Ventures LLC to serve as his artificial intelligence and crypto czar, a newly created position that underscores the president-elect’s intent...
#20 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...
