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Maine Plane Crash Victims Worked for Luxury Travel Startup Led by Texas Lawyer

Feb 5 2026 // The six people killed in a fiery plane crash in Maine were flying to France’s Champagne region to scope out the next travel destination for high-net-worth clients when their small jet flipped on the runway during...

Viewpoint: Underwriting at an Inflection Point – The AI Advantage

Feb 5 2026 // The U.S. commercial insurance market is demonstrating clear signs of rate fatigue and an overall softening. Since 2017, the industry has experienced increased loss pressures from climate events, social inflation in legal...

Accounting and Commission Automation for Multi-Carrier MGAs in Texas

Feb 4 2026 // If you’re running a multi-carrier MGA in Texas, chances are your accounting and commissions workflow looks like this: Multiple carrier commission structures Split payments across brokers, sub-agents, and...

The $3 Trillion AI Data Center Build-Out Becomes All-Consuming for Debt Markets

Feb 3 2026 // More than $3 trillion. That’s the ­staggering price tag to build the data centers needed to prepare for the artificial intelligence boom.Not even the world’s biggest technology companies—not Amazon.com, not...

‘Moltbook’ Social Media Site for AI Agents Had Big Security Hole

Feb 2 2026 // A buzzy new social network where artificial intelligence-powered bots appear to swap code and gossip about their human owners had a major flaw that exposed private data on thousands of real people, according to research...

Open-Source AI Models Vulnerable to Criminal Misuse, Researchers Warn

Feb 2 2026 // Hackers and other criminals can easily commandeer computers operating open-source large language models outside the guardrails and constraints of the major artificial-intelligence platforms, creating security risks and...

Commerce Department Plans National AI Center in San Francisco

Jan 29 2026 // The U.S. Department of Commerce is preparing to open a national artificial-intelligence center in San Francisco, putting it closer to firms at the center of some of the government’s most high-profile initiatives.In...

Nvidia Launches AI Technologies to Aid Weather Forecasting

Jan 27 2026 // Nvidia Corp. is offering new open-source software and models designed to help governments and businesses more easily use artificial intelligence and complex data to build their own weather forecasting systems.The...

AI Assist for Underwriting and Quoting

Jan 26 2026 // Underwriters and quoting teams spend hours reviewing guidelines, appetite charts, and exceptions. Selectsys AI Assist acts as an intelligent underwriting assistant inside RQB and Expert Insured (EI), using trained models...

AI Job Cuts Are Landing Hardest in Britain, Morgan Stanley Says

Jan 26 2026 // The UK is losing more jobs than it’s creating because of artificial intelligence — and at a faster rate than its international peers.That’s according to research by Morgan Stanley that found the significant...

AI-Driven Threats Driving Spending Plans: AXIS

Jan 26 2026 // Nearly 82% of executives surveyed by AXIS Capital Holdings Limited said their organizations plan to increase their cybersecurity budgets over the next 12 months, while 75.2% said they are likely to reduce cybersecurity...

Experian: AI Agents Could Overtake Human Error as Leading Cause of Data Breaches

Jan 26 2026 // Artificial intelligence continues to be at the center of Experian’s annual breach forecast for 2026, heavily influencing the scope, frequency, and cost of cyber incidents.AI makes its way into many of the predictions...

AI Data Center Boom Risks Roiling Global Carmaker Supply Chains

Jan 23 2026 // The auto sector is bracing for yet another potential supply chain disturbance, this time spurred by the rush to build data centers that train and develop artificial intelligence models.A shortage of memory chips caused by...

20,000 AI Users at Travelers Prep for Innovation 2.0; Claims Call Centers Cut

Jan 23 2026 // Days after announcing a deal to equip 10,000 engineers and data scientists at Travelers with AI assistants, the insurance company’s leader detailed “differentiating domain expertise” around data and...

Estee Lauder Sued by Beauty Tech Startup for Alleged Theft

Jan 23 2026 // Estee Lauder was sued by a self-described “disruptive” startup that accused the cosmetics giant of effectively putting it out of business by stealing technology to boost sales from jet-setting travelers in...

AI Company Eightfold Sued for Helping Companies Secretly Score Job Seekers

Jan 22 2026 // Eightfold AI, a venture capital-backed artificial intelligence hiring platform used by Microsoft, PayPal and many other Fortune 500 companies, is being sued for allegedly compiling reports used to screen job applicants...

Insurtech Lemonade Starts Autonomous Car Product With Tesla’s Data

Jan 21 2026 // Insurtech Lemonade said it has launched Lemonade Autonomous Car insurance, and will begin with a technical collaboration with Tesla that gives the insurer access to vehicle data.For starters, Lemonade said the new offering...

Michigan Bulletin Provides Guidance for AI Use in Financial Services

Jan 20 2026 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services issued a bulletin to provide guidance to financial service providers on the use of artificial intelligence.The bulletin says that financial service providers...

10,000 Travelers Employees Get AI Assistants Via Anthropic Partnership

Jan 20 2026 // Nearly 10,000 engineers, data scientists, analysts and product owners at Travelers are being empowered with personalized AI assistants, Travelers announced in mid-January.In a joint announcement with Anthropic, the two...

Britain Needs ‘AI Stress Tests’ for Financial Services, Lawmakers Say

Jan 20 2026 // Britain’s financial watchdogs are not doing enough to stop AI from harming consumers or destabilizing markets, a group of lawmakers said on Tuesday, urging regulators to move away from a “wait and see”...