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Rise of AI Impacts Grand Rapids Region, Companies Face Talent and Market Challenges

Dec 12 2025 // West Michigan remains a leader in job and population growth across Michigan, but there are signs momentum has slowed amid staffing challenges, tariffs and the rise of artificial intelligence.Forty-six percent of Grand...

Trump Signs Order Seeking to Limit State-Level AI Regulation

Dec 12 2025 // President Donald Trump signed an order aimed at thwarting state-level regulation of artificial intelligence through lawsuits and funding cuts, handing a win to tech industry leaders who’ve pressed for preemption of...

UConn, Georgia Tech Students Win ACORD Challenge Using AI Tools in Pet Insurance

Dec 11 2025 // The insurance industry data standards organization ACORD announced today that University of Connecticut graduate student Manasa Ramaka has won the ACORD Student Challenge 2025, a national competition that asks university...

Chubb, The Hartford, Liberty and Travelers Team Up on Surety Tech Launch

Dec 9 2025 // Four surety companies—Chubb, The Hartford, Liberty Mutual and Travelers—announced the launch of a technology company that will feature a shared digital infrastructure to advance the surety industry.According to a brief...

Register Now for IJ’s ‘AI Tools for Agents’ Demo Day on Dec. 10

Dec 9 2025 // Insurance Journal’s Risky Future series will host the “AI Tools for Retail Agents” Demo Day, which offers free AI tool demonstrations designed exclusively for retail insurance agencies.The latest online...

Trump to Issue Order Creating National AI Rule

Dec 8 2025 // President Donald Trump said on Monday he would sign an executive order this week that he said would create a single national rule for artificial intelligence, which the industry has said is necessary to override disparate...

Health Department Unveils Strategy to Expand its Adoption of AI Tech

Dec 8 2025 // The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday outlined a strategy to expand its use of artificial intelligence, building on the Trump administration’s enthusiastic embrace of the rapidly advancing...

Satellite Startup ICEYE Raises Funds at $2.8 Billion Valuation as Europe Boosts Defense

Dec 8 2025 // ICEYE, a Finnish satellite developer with a number of defense contracts, has raised money at a €2.4 billion ($2.8 billion) valuation, capitalizing on the military spending boom across Europe.Venture firm General Catalyst...

New York Times Sues Perplexity AI for ‘Illegal’ Copying of Content

Dec 5 2025 // The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI on Friday, claiming that the artificial intelligence startup was copying, distributing and displaying millions of its articles without permission.The startup has...

The Rise of AI Reasoning Models Comes With a Big Energy Tradeoff

Dec 5 2025 // Nearly all leading artificial intelligence developers are focused on building AI models that mimic the way humans reason, but new research shows these cutting-edge systems can be far more energy intensive, adding to...

Political Consultant Whose AI Robocalls Mimicked Biden Defies Court Order

Dec 5 2025 // A political consultant who sent artificial intelligence-generated robocalls mimicking former President Joe Biden to New Hampshire Democrats said he will not pay $22,500 to three voters despite a recent federal court...

People Moves: Westfield Specialty International Taps Zurich’s Watson to Lead New Cyber Offering; Liberty Names Delvos From Corvus as Head of Cyber and Tech E&O, Europe

Dec 4 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Westfield Specialty International and Liberty Specialty Markets.A summary of these new hires follows here. Westfield Specialty Int’l Taps...

Tech Industry Drive to Block State AI Laws Hits Wall in Congress

Dec 3 2025 // A powerful coalition of tech companies backed by the White House’s artificial intelligence chief appears to have failed to persuade lawmakers to use a must-pass defense bill to block state governments from regulating...

Bank of England Sees Rising Financial Risks From AI and Lending

Dec 3 2025 // The Bank of England said on Tuesday that threats to Britain’s financial system had risen this year due to stretched valuations of companies investing in artificial intelligence, risky lending and bets with borrowed...

Viewpoint: Agentic AI Is Coming to Insurance Industry – Much Faster Than You Think

Dec 3 2025 // There has been much discussion in the insurance industry about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it can take on mundane, laborious tasks and complete them in a fraction of the time it would take a human.But the...

People Moves: Simplifai, Providing AI for Claims, Names New Board Members

Dec 3 2025 // Simplifai, a provider of agentic artificial intelligence for property-casualty insurance claims, with offices in Miami, Florida, and Oslo, Norway, has named new members to its board of directors. Noel Hamill and Nils...

Thailand’s Record Floods Paralyze Key Hubs for Tech and Car Parts

Dec 2 2025 // Thailand said floods that have devastated much of the country’s south have “paralyzed” the flow of high tech components and car parts to neighboring Malaysia, potentially benefiting rival exporters in...

Here’s Why Two AI Copyright Cases Had Two Very Different Outcomes

Dec 2 2025 // Artificial intelligence companies and the creative industries are locked in an ongoing battle, being played out in the courts. The thread that pulls all these lawsuits together is copyright.There are now over 60 ongoing...

Dozens of State Attorneys General Urge Congress Not to Block AI Laws

Dec 2 2025 // Republican and Democratic attorneys general from 35 states and the District of Columbia urged congressional leaders on Tuesday not to block state laws governing artificial intelligence, warning of “disastrous...

Allianz Unit Discussing Call Center Jobs Cuts in AI Transition

Nov 26 2025 // Allianz SE is in talks about potential job cuts at its assistance and travel insurance subsidiary Allianz Partners as it seeks to use more artifical intelligence.The cuts will likely affect call center positions, the...