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Mar 18 2025 // Megan Garcia says her son would still be alive today if it weren’t for a chatbot urging the 14-year-old to take his own life.In a lawsuit with major implications for Silicon Valley, she is seeking to hold Google and...
May 5 2025 // He’s not yet ready to declare “mission accomplished,” but Ajit Jain, vice chair of Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance operations, said the conglomerate’s personal auto insurer, GEICO, is no longer...
Mar 7 2025 // Molly Kelley was stunned to discover in June that someone she knew had used widely available “nudification” technology to create highly realistic and sexually explicit videos and images of her, using family...
Mar 21 2025 // Artificial intelligence technology has continued to evolve, and it’s affecting many areas of insurance from claims to underwriting to customer service, according to panelists at the 2025 PLUS D&O Symposium in New...
Oct 25 2024 // The parents of a high school senior in Massachusetts argued in federal court in Boston on Tuesday that their son was unfairly punished for using artificial intelligence while researching a history project, harming his...
Dec 6 2024 // Donald Trump says he is selecting venture capitalist David Sacks of Craft Ventures LLC to serve as his artificial intelligence and crypto czar, a newly created position that underscores the president-elect’s intent...
May 23 2025 // A federal judge on Wednesday rejected arguments made by an artificial intelligence company that its chatbots are protected by the First Amendment — at least for now. The developers behind Character.AI are seeking to...
Oct 29 2024 // In the final moments before he took his own life, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III took out his phone and messaged the chatbot that had become his closest friend.For months, Sewell had become increasingly isolated from his...
Apr 24 2025 // Kresimir Mudrovcic and his team of programmers spend months on end trawling through computer code that can be three times as old as the crew’s youngest members.Mudrovcic specializes in mainframe technology, involving...
Jul 2 2024 // Executive Summary: For a multinational insurance company like Zurich Insurance Group, which can find itself delivering large, complex policies in multiple languages to a single international customer, there’s a...
Sep 19 2024 // A comment and promise made by former President Donald Trump on Tuesday received a lot of not-so-positive attention from the insurance industry.“Your Automobile Insurance is up 73% — VOTE FOR TRUMP, I’LL CUT...
Jun 12 2024 // Executive Summary: While insurance leaders plan to use machine learning capability in their pricing and underwriting processes, only a small proportion actually have embraced the technology. They need to take the next step...
Nov 25 2024 // Mary Louis’ excitement to move into an apartment in Massachusetts in the spring of 2021 turned to dismay when Louis, a Black woman, received an email saying that a “third-party service” had denied her...
Feb 24 2025 // As consumer complaints have apparently mounted over unpaid hurricane losses, Florida’s top insurance regulator and some lawmakers are signaling new scrutiny on insurance carriers’ claims-handling and other...
Dec 30 2024 // Claims professionals need to adapt to the AI evolution at a fast pace as the same technologies used to fight claims fraud are also being used to perpetuate it, according to experts.“It’s truly become an arms...
Mar 19 2025 // Insurance carriers expecting to add staff in 2025 are largely looking for experienced professionals rather than filling entry level roles, according to the latest Insurance Labor Market Study from Jacobson Group and...
Aug 5 2024 // A Connecticut clinical social worker believes her homeowners insurer should defend and indemnify her against claims she violated patients’ privacy by accessing and sharing their private medical information. She says...
Sep 26 2024 // As its authority is routinely questioned, the Federal Trade Commission has filed complaints against five companies it said use artificial intelligence (AI) to “supercharge deceptive or unfair...
Feb 7 2025 // ChatGPT maker OpenAI said on Thursday it is evaluating U.S. states as potential artificial intelligence data center locations for its massive Stargate venture, framing the project as a matter of urgency for the United...
Apr 8 2025 // Identifying the needs and pain points of customers and then developing solutions to better service them and other company partners—those are the most important promises that artificial intelligence and new technologies...