Most Popular Tech Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Tech Topic Page over the last year.
#1 Acrisure to Lay Off 400 Employees, Citing Tech Advancements and AI Integration
Oct 8 2025 // Acrisure announced it will implement layoffs to its accounting workforce beginning in early 2026, citing advancements in technology and artificial intelligence. The company said 400 employees will be affected by the...
#2 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...
#3 The War on Wildfires Is Going High-Tech
Dec 27 2024 // Last December, a farmer was burning dry grapevines in his vineyard in Deir Mar Moussa, a hill town a dozen miles east of Beirut known for its 18th century monastery and stands of pine forest. Usually this would be...
#4 Insurtechs’ Approach to Wildfire Insurance: Part I – Delos
Jan 21 2025 // While the Los Angeles wildfires inch closer toward containment, estimates of insured losses continue to creep higher. CoreLogic said the industry price tag of the Palisades and Eaton fires could land between $35 billion...
#5 Insurtech Slide Targets $2B-Plus Valuation in IPO
Jun 9 2025 // Insurance tech company Slide is aiming for a valuation of up to $2.12 billion in its U.S. initial public offering, joining a lineup of insurance companies that have made impressive stock market debuts in recent...
#6 Acrisure Secures $2.1 Billion Funding Round for M&A, Tech
May 21 2025 // Acrisure said it has entered into a definitive agreement for the issuance of new convertible senior preferred stock in a $2.1 billion capital raise led by Bain Capital. Acrisure said the company’s valuation stands at...
#7 Amazon’s AWS Struggles to Recover After Major Outage Disrupts Apps, Services
Oct 20 2025 // Amazon’s cloud services unit AWS was struggling to recover on Monday from a widespread outage that knocked out thousands of websites along with some of the world’s most popular apps – Snapchat and Reddit...
#8 Insurer Says Tech Services Firms Should Pay for Insured’s Ransomware Damages
Sep 19 2025 // ACE American Insurance Co. is suing to recover $500,000 it paid in ransomware damages to a staffing company, claiming cloud computing and cybersecurity firms contracted by its policyholder should instead be held...
#9 Insurtech Root Finishes 2024 With First Yearly Profit
Feb 27 2025 // Root Inc. followed up its first ever quarterly net profit in the third quarter with another in the last quarter of 2024, and finished with the first profitable year in the company’s history. The Columbus, Ohio-based...
#10 3 Emerging Risks to Watch: 6G Wireless Technology, Autonomous Trucks, Kratom
Apr 21 2025 // It seemed not so long ago that many wireless carriers were in a race to 5G, touting the speed of their networks to consumers. Now, the successor to that network is in development and could bring a bounty of potential...
#11 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...
#12 Insurtechs’ Approach to Wildfire Insurance: Part II – Kettle
Jan 22 2025 // While the Los Angeles wildfires inch closer toward containment, estimates of insured losses continue to creep higher. CoreLogic said the industry price tag of the Palisades and Eaton fires could land between $35 billion...
#13 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...
#14 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...
#15 ‘Pivotal’ Q3 Sees Insurtech Root Achieves Net Income Profit for the First Time
Oct 31 2024 // For the first time in the company’s history, Root Inc. recorded a quarterly net income profit. The Columbus, Ohio-based parent company of Root Insurance founded in 2015 recorded third quarter net income of about $23...
#16 Old Republic Starts New Company for Cyber, Tech E&O
Jan 7 2025 // Old Republic International Corp. said it is forming a new subsidiary for cyber and technology errors and omissions insurance products. CJ Pruzinsky Old Republic Cyber Inc. will be led by CJ Pruzinsky, formerly of...
#17 Trump’s Antitrust Trio Heralds Big-Tech Crackdown to Continue
Dec 13 2024 // President-elect Donald Trump’s antitrust picks are likely to take a hard-line on the tech giants, and a harder line on corporate consolidation than the average Republican. All three of the new administration’s...
#18 Business Moves: Earnix Agrees to Acquire Insurtech and AI Specialist Zelros
May 6 2025 // Earnix, the software-as-a-service (SaaS) specialist, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Zelros, the Paris-based insurtech and developer of artificial intelligence solutions. Financial details of the...
#19 Insurtechs’ Approach to Wildfire Insurance: Part III – Faura
Jan 23 2025 // While the Los Angeles wildfires inch closer toward containment, estimates of insured losses continue to creep higher. CoreLogic said the industry price tag of the Palisades and Eaton fires could land between $35 billion...
#20 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...
