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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...

AI + Human BPO: The New Model for Insurance Process Automation

Nov 26 2025 // In insurance, automation has long been viewed as an “either/or” scenario-either a task is handled by AI, or it’s assigned to a BPO team. That’s no longer the case.Today’s most successful MGAs,...

Massive Wildfire Liabilities Push Utilities to Use AI to Stop Blazes

Nov 25 2025 // On the hunt for cheap and fast strategies to prevent deadly wildfires, utilities across the US and Europeare contracting with a handful of artificial intelligence startups to map wildfire risk along thousands of miles of...

How AI Could Reboot Britain’s Services-Heavy Economy

Nov 25 2025 // When accountants at mid-tier firm Moore Kingston Smith began using artificial intelligence to speed up their work, profit margins jumped.Colleagues in another team running checks against corporate fraud created a report...

Insurance Customers Skeptical About AI Processes and Benefits

Nov 25 2025 // While insurance consumers may be warming up to artificial intelligence, 68% say they believe the insurance company gets most of or all the benefits of AI adoption.AI is becoming more ingrained and accepted as part of the...

US States Take Aim at Data-Driven Pricing to Ease Consumer Pain

Nov 24 2025 // Even as the White House seeks to roll back state laws on artificial intelligence, states are pursuing an increasing number of bills to ban tech-driven pricing practices in an effort to bring consumers relief from high...

Silent Cyber Threats: How ‘Shadow AI’ Could Undermine Digital Health Defenses

Nov 21 2025 // Across Canada, doctors and nurses are quietly using public artificial-intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and Gemini to write clinical notes, translate discharge summaries or summarize patient data. But...