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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...

Google Accused in Suit of Using Gemini AI Tool to Snoop on Users

Nov 12 2025 // Google was accused in a lawsuit of using its Gemini AI assistant to unlawfully track the private communications of users of its Gmail, instant messaging and videoconference programs. In the past, users of Gmail, Chat and...

GoDaddy Hit With $170M Patent Verdict Over Web-Design Tech

Nov 10 2025 // Internet domain registrar GoDaddy GDDY.N owes a patent owner $170 million for violating its rights in website-building technology, a Delaware federal jury said in a verdict made public on Friday. The jury agreed with...

How EZLynx is Empowering the Next Generation of Insurance with AI

Nov 10 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by EZLynx. The insurance industry is experiencing one of its most significant transformations in decades. Fueled by evolving customer expectations and workforce attrition, the...

Register: Risky Future AI Tools for MGAs ‘Demo Day’ on Nov. 12

Nov 10 2025 // Insurance Journal’s Risky Future series is hosting the “AI Tools for MGAs” Demo Day, a series of free AI tool demonstrations designed exclusively for managing general agencies. The latest online event...

Markets/Coverages: Fidelis Launches Construction Consortium to Cover AI Data Centers

Nov 7 2025 // The Fidelis Partnership (TFP), the Bermuda-based managing general underwriter, announced the launch of a consortium that targets risks associated with the construction of AI data centers. With estimates suggesting that the...

Tech University Students Think Tiny Drones Inspired by Bats Could Save Lives

Nov 6 2025 // Don’t be fooled by the fog machine, spooky lights and fake bats: the robotics lab at Worcester Polytechnic Institute lab isn’t hosting a late Halloween party. Instead, it’s a testing ground for tiny...

Highlights from Applied Net 2025: Transforming Agencies with EZLynx Innovations

Nov 5 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by EZLynx. We had an incredible time at Applied Net 2025, where innovation, learning, and collaboration took center stage for EZLynx® users. With over 350 EZLynx customers in...

Florida-Based HCI’s Insurtech Raises $168M in Initial Public Offering

Nov 5 2025 // Insurance technology firm Exzeo Group, part of Tampa-based HCI Group, raised $168 million in its U.S. initial public offering on Tuesday, pricing its shares within its marketed range and becoming the latest insurance...

Insurtech Hippo Reverses Q3 Loss During ‘Breakout Quarter’

Nov 5 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 100—a...

Insurance Turns to AI as a Critical Enabler to Boost Agility

Nov 3 2025 // Insurance is being shaken by a trio of climate- and economy-driven challenges; severe natural disasters, inflation, and high interest rates have driven withdrawals and nonrenewals–leaving both agents and...