Latest Artificial Intelligence Headlines

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How Construction Companies Can Make the Most of Technology Advancements

Jun 15 2020 // As one of the oldest industries, construction has been notoriously slow to adopt technological advancements and embrace the digital age. However, in the last decade, many innovative technologies have gained traction in the...

Google Urges EU to Use Current Laws, Not New Ones, to Regulate Artificial Intelligence

May 29 2020 // Google has called on the European Union to use current EU laws to govern the use of artificial intelligence rather than draft new ones and cautioned against a one size fits all regulatory framework because of AI’s...

Not All Homes in Wildfire Zones Are Uninsurable. Here’s How Insurers Can Tell.

May 22 2020 // Fire-risk scores now used by insurance underwriters can sometimes can make it challenging for homeowners to find coverage.Zesty.ai, a California insurtech start-up, is among a handful of firms working to fine-tune...

Tokio Marine Uses Tractable’s Artificial Intelligence Solution for Auto Claims in Japan

May 11 2020 // Tokio Marine, the Tokyo-based property and casualty insurer, will use an artificial intelligence (AI) solution to process auto damage across its insurance operations in Japan, accelerating claims processing for...

AI Specialist omni:us Partners with Insurtech Rokk3r to Enter Latin American Market

May 4 2020 // omni:us, the insurance-focused artificial intelligence (AI) solution business, has announced a partnership with Rokk3r, a global innovation technology and consulting company, to enable the AI company to enter the Latin...

Employers Hope to Limit Liability by Catching Social Distancing Scofflaws on Video

Apr 28 2020 // Stores and workplaces eager to avoid spreading the novel coronavirus are equipping existing security cameras with artificial intelligence software that can track compliance with health guidelines including social...

Cyber Criminals Increasingly Will Target Top Executives in Ransomware Attacks: Report

Apr 14 2020 // Senior executives increasingly will be targeted by cyber criminals looking for ways to steal money from large corporations, according to a report from cyber analytics provider CyberCube.Organized criminals and hackers are...

Why Artificial Intelligence Is Not the Answer for All Businesses

Apr 3 2020 // The temptation for businesses to use artificial intelligence and other technology to improve performance, drive down labor costs, and better the bottom line is understandable. But before they pursue automation that could...

Insurer Ageas Uses AI to Create End-to-End Car Damage Assessments in UK

Mar 26 2020 // Ageas is using artificial intelligence (AI) to create end-to-end assessments and estimates of vehicle damage, which it says is a first for a UK insurance company.Ageas is using an AI solution, developed by technology...

Swiss Re Launches Digital Market Center Supported by Microsoft Data Analytics, AI Tools

Mar 12 2020 // Swiss Re has formed a strategic alliance with Microsoft Corp., which is providing digital tools to support Swiss Re’s new Digital Market Center.The Digital Market Center is designed to help develop next-generation,...

Lemonade Starts Fund to Encourage Socially Positive Use of AI, Data and Technology

Mar 5 2020 // Digital insurer Lemonade has established a nonprofit foundation designed to promote the use of AI, data and software to build socially positive products and programs globally.Dubbed The Lemonade Foundation, the...

Analyst Warns Regulatory Battle Over AI Bias to Grow; Lemonade Argues It’s Fair

Feb 14 2020 // As insurers introduce artificial intelligence into pricing and claims handling activities, regulatory focus on disparate impact will grow into “one of the biggest topics of the next 10 years,” a well-known...

Electricity Can’t Hold Candle to Artificial Intelligence in Significance: Alphabet CEO

Jan 28 2020 // Google’s chief executive officer has left no doubt about how important he thinks artificial intelligence will be to humanity.“AI is one of the most profound things we’re working on as humanity. It’s...

Energy-Hungry Data Storage Is Another Culprit of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Jan 27 2020 // Everyone has seen the warning. At the bottom of the email, it says: “Please consider the environment before printing.” But for those who care about global warming, you might want to consider not writing so many...

IBM Calls For Rules to Curb Bias in Artificial Intelligence

Jan 22 2020 // IBM called for rules aimed at eliminating bias in artificial intelligence to ease concerns that the technology relies on data that bakes in past discriminatory practices and could harm women, minorities, the disabled,...

Trump Administration Seeks to Limit ‘Overreach’ of Regulation of Artificial Intelligence

Jan 8 2020 // The White House on Tuesday proposed regulatory principles to govern the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) aimed at limiting authorities’ “overreach,” and said it wants European officials...

Watch Out Finance, Business, Tech Workers. Artificial Intelligence Is Coming.

Nov 21 2019 // Artificial intelligence is coming for America’s high-paid professions as it creates winners and losers across the labor market like never before.White-collar jobs and better-educated occupations along with production...

Salesforce Unveils Software Using Amazon AI to Speed Up Call Center Responses

Nov 20 2019 // Business software provider Salesforce.com Inc. said on Tuesday it would use artificial intelligence (AI) technology from Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing unit to improve customer service apps.Salesforce makes...

China’s Ping An Insurance to Spend $22B on Tech, From AI to Blockchain

Oct 24 2019 // Ping An Insurance wants to be valued more like a technology company. Its executives have yet to convince investors their planned $22 billion spend on everything from artificial intelligence to blockchain will work.While...

Female Entrepreneur Forging Path in Insurtech Space with AI-Powered Chatbot ‘LeO’

Oct 21 2019 // Like many people, entrepreneur and former Israeli tech journalist turned insurtech founder Liri Halperin never expected she would end up in the insurance business. But an insurance buying experience almost four years ago...