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#1 Aon Launches AI-Powered Aon Broker Copilot for Commercial Insurance
Jun 23 2025 // Aon plc today announced the launch of Aon Broker Copilot, a platform that uses artificial intelligence, large-language models and predictive analytics in the commercial insurance placement process. “Aon Broker...
#2 Insurance Industry Rejects Proposed Moratorium on State AI Regulation
Jun 18 2025 // A proposed decade-long moratorium on state regulation of artificial intelligence has gained the attention of many, including those within the insurance industry. The 10-year prohibition of AI regulation is contained within...
#3 Senate Strikes AI Regulation Ban From Trump Megabill
Jul 1 2025 // The Republican-led U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to remove a 10-year federal moratorium on state regulation of artificial intelligence from President Trump’s sweeping tax-cut and spending...
#4 Tech Firms Warn ‘Scattered Spider’ Hacks Are Targeting Aviation Sector
Jun 30 2025 // Tech companies Google and Palo Alto Networks are sounding the alarm over the “Scattered Spider” hacking group’s interest in the aviation sector. In a statement posted on LinkedIn on Friday, Sam Rubin, an...
#5 Insurers Race to the Starting Line in the Dawn of the AI Decision Era
Jul 3 2025 // Embracing artificial intelligence in insurance is a race, but one that experts describe as a race to the starting rather than the finish line. “I think this is sort of a race to the starting line,” said Indico...
#6 Business Moves: Insurtech Wefox Raises €151M to Build New MGA Focus, Core Markets
Jul 7 2025 // Insurtech wefox has secured funding of €151 million ($177.8 million), which will enable the company to build its core market positions in Austria, the Netherlands, and Switzerland as well as its asset-light managing...
#7 Impostor Uses AI to Impersonate Rubio, Contact Foreign and US Officials
Jul 8 2025 // The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats of attempts to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio and possibly other officials using technology driven by artificial intelligence, according to two senior officials...
#8 AI-Driven MGA ‘Augmented UW’ Launches to Serve Smart-Follow Insurance Market
Jul 10 2025 // Augmented UW Ltd., the AI-driven managing general agent, has launched in London to serve the smart-follow insurance market. The MGA was founded by Chief Executive Officer Daniel Prince, a leading executive in the London...
#9 Insurance Industry Rejects Proposed Moratorium on State Artificial Intelligence Regulation
Jul 7 2025 // A proposed decade-long moratorium on state regulation of artificial intelligence has gained the attention of many, including those within the insurance industry. The 10-year prohibition of AI regulation is contained within...
#10 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...
#11 E&S Insurtech Ledgebrook Raises $65 Million
Jun 25 2025 // Ledgebrook Inc, a technology-driven excess and surplus lines managing general agency, recently completed the close of a $65 million funding round. The oversubscribed Series C round was led by existing investor The Stephens...
#12 Zurich Insurance Buys Canadian Insurance Technology Firm BOXX
Jul 3 2025 // Zurich Insurance Group AG agreed to buy BOXX Insurance Inc, a Canadian cyber risk management firm, marking the Swiss insurer’s latest push into the insurance technology sector. The acquisition will see BOXX becoming...
#13 PwC’s AI Chief Says Firm Has Cut Prices as Tech Saves Staff Time
Jun 30 2025 // PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, one of the world’s largest professional advisory firms, has cut prices for some services as clients raised the fact that the consultancy is using artificial intelligence to complete its...
#14 Resource Pro Acquires Tech Services Firm Propellint
Jul 2 2025 // Insurance operations specialist ReSource Pro has acquired Propellint, a Hartford, Connecticut-based tech services firm that specializes in implementing claims administration software. The deal expands New York-based...
#15 Insurtech Inshur Raises $35 Million From Trinity Capital for US Expansion, AI Tech
Jul 9 2025 // Inshur said it as received a $35 million capital raise from alternative asset manager Trinity Capital to invest in research and development of artificial intelligence technology to support its embedded auto insurance...
#16 Microsoft Sued by Authors Over Use of Books in AI Training
Jun 26 2025 // Microsoft has been hit with a lawsuit by a group of authors who claim the company used their books without permission to train its Megatron artificial intelligence model. Kai Bird, Jia Tolentino, Daniel Okrent and several...
#17 Anthropic Wins Key Ruling on AI Training in Authors’ Copyright Lawsuit
Jun 25 2025 // A federal judge in San Francisco ruled late on Monday that Anthropic’s use of books without permission to train its artificial intelligence system was legal under U.S. copyright law. Siding with tech companies on a...
#18 AI-Focused COVU Acquires Maine’s 100-Year Old Ford Agency
Jun 24 2025 // San Francisco-based COVU, Inc. announced it has acquired Ford Insurance Agency, a 100+ year-old, family-owned business based in Eliot, Maine. Operated by the Lonsinger family, Ford Insurance Agency provides commercial and...
#19 Andreessen Horowitz Leaves Delaware for Nevada, Tells Startups to Follow
Jul 11 2025 // The Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is reincorporating its business from Delaware to Nevada and calling for its portfolio companies to do the same — citing concerns over bias in the state...
#20 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...
