All the headlines from our Artificial Intelligence Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 4 2019 // Automation won’t be replacing the entire workforce but about one-quarter of U.S. jobs could be severely disrupted as artificial intelligence (AI) takes hold in the near future.According to a new Brookings Institution...
Jan 23 2019 // American Family Insurance joined a new $43 million financing round for Clearcover, a managing general agent with an artificial intelligence-driven platform focused on car insurance.The Chicago-based insurtech startup said...
Jan 10 2019 // AXA XL Risk Consulting announced it is using artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance its property risk engineering capabilities.AXA XL Risk Consulting is working with Expert System, an Italian developer of cognitive...
Jan 3 2019 // Last year, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure security team detected suspicious activity in the cloud computing usage of a large retailer: One of the company’s administrators, who usually logs on from New York, was trying...
Jan 2 2019 // It’s been another year of relentless artificial-intelligence hype and incremental AI achievement. Machines still beat humans only in carefully constructed environments or at narrow tasks. The good news is that, as...
Dec 18 2018 // Machine-learning research published in two related papers today in Nature Geosciences reports the detection of seismic signals accurately predicting the Cascadia fault’s slow slippage, a type of failure observed to...
Dec 3 2018 // Artificial intelligence is helping improve safety along a stretch of Las Vegas’ busiest highway.The Nevada Highway Patrol says a yearlong partnership between public safety agencies and a startup technology firm...
Dec 3 2018 // Fires across North America in 2018 have continued the pattern of extreme destruction established by significant insured loss events in both Northern and Southern California last year and the 2016 disasters in Alberta and...
Nov 26 2018 // Artificial intelligence is helping improve safety along a stretch of Las Vegas’ busiest highway.The Nevada Highway Patrol says a yearlong partnership between public safety agencies and a startup technology firm...
Oct 17 2018 // Giant Google’s investment arm has purchased a minority stake in Applied Systems, a provider of insurance technology and cloud-based software for independent agencies.The investment in Applied Systems is being made...
Oct 8 2018 // The digital revolution in insurance is about to begin its second act.Having in its first phase used science and technology to inspire a rethinking of insurance that is making insurance easier and more efficient to buy and...
Oct 1 2018 // The auto insurance industry is in the midst of major disruption powered by technology and vibrant new players. Disruption gives way to fresh ideas that can have both profound and positive impacts on our lives and...
Sep 20 2018 // Despite the volume of cyberattacks doubling in 2017, banks and insurance firm firms are closing the gap on cyber attacks, having stopped four in five of all breach attempts last year.According to a study by Accenture,...
Sep 17 2018 // Apple Inc.’s new watch is the latest proof: Big Tech is trying to remake health care in its own image.The device, introduced at a splashy launch event this week, can call for help after a fall. It can monitor...
Sep 17 2018 // Earlier this year, this reporter was walking on Lime Street, the home of Lloyd’s of London, dodging raindrops. She observed a broker, carrying a large blue binder containing documents for an underwriting risk, had...
Aug 17 2018 // You’re crossing the street wrong.That is essentially the argument some self-driving car boosters have fallen back on in the months after the first pedestrian death attributed to an autonomous vehicle and amid growing...
Aug 10 2018 // The nightmare scenario for computer security – artificial intelligence programs that can learn how to evade even the best defenses – may already have arrived.That warning from security researchers is driven...
Jul 6 2018 // Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and one of the pioneers of the world wide web, once declared:“The spread of computers and the internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and...
Jul 5 2018 // Some of the world’s largest technology companies might be breaking the European Union’s new data privacy law, according to an analysis of their policies conducted by artificial intelligence software.Researchers...
Jun 29 2018 // Artificial intelligence is coming for the service economy, according to Allstate Corp. Chief Executive Officer Tom Wilson.“It’s going to rip through this economy like a tsunami,” Wilson said Thursday in...