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#1 Cisco to Buy Splunk for $28 Billion in Giant AI-Powered Data Bet

Sep 22 2023 // Cisco Systems Inc. agreed to buy Splunk Inc. in a deal valued at about $28 billion, representing its biggest acquisition yet and a massive push into software and artificial intelligence-powered data analysis. The...

#2 Thomson Reuters AI Copyright Dispute Must Go to Trial, Judge Says

Sep 26 2023 // A jury must decide the outcome of a lawsuit by information services company Thomson Reuters accusing Ross Intelligence of unlawfully copying content from its legal-research platform Westlaw to train a competing artificial...

#3 States Are Rushing to Regulate Deepfakes as AI Goes Mainstream

Jun 21 2023 // Images of former President Donald Trump hugging and kissing Dr. Anthony Fauci, his ex-chief medical adviser. Pornographic depictions of Hollywood actresses and internet influencers. A photo of an explosion at the...

#4 ChatGPT Creator OpenAI Sued for Theft of Private Data in ‘AI Arms Race’

Jun 29 2023 // ChatGPT creator OpenAI Inc. is stealing “vast amounts” of personal information to train its artificial intelligence models in a heedless hunt for profits, a group of anonymous individuals claimed in a lawsuit...

#5 EEOC Warns Employers to Check AI Workplace Monitoring Tools for Bias

May 26 2023 // The head of the U.S. agency charged with enforcing civil rights in the workplace says artificial intelligence-driven “bossware” tools that closely track the whereabouts, keystrokes and productivity of workers...

#6 White House Takes New Steps to Study AI Risks, Determine Impact on Workers

May 24 2023 // The White House said on Tuesday it would ask workers how their employers use artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor them, as it allocates federal investments in the technology, which is expected to change the nature of...

#7 Top AI CEOs, Experts Raise ‘Risk of Extinction’ From AI

May 31 2023 // Top artificial intelligence (AI) executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday joined experts and professors in raising the “risk of extinction from AI,” which they urged policymakers to equate at par...

#8 How Much Should Insurers Trust AI Chatbots?

May 24 2023 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Whether it’s underwriting, claims or customer service, it seems that artificial intelligence is top of mind for the insurance industry right now. William Bennett, partner at law firm...

#9 Microsoft Chief Says Deep Fakes are Biggest AI Concern

May 26 2023 // Microsoft President Brad Smith said Thursday that his biggest concern around artificial intelligence was deep fakes, realistic looking but false content. In a speech in Washington aimed at addressing the issue of how best...

#10 Insurer Mapfre Faces Class Actions Over Data Breach

Sep 13 2023 // Two proposed class actions have been filed in federal court in Massachusetts against Mapfre U.S.A. Corp. and its affiliate Commerce Insurance Co. over a recent data breach that one of the lawsuits contends may have exposed...

#11 Visual Artists Fight Back Against AI Companies for Repurposing Their Work

Sep 1 2023 // Kelly McKernan’s acrylic and watercolor paintings are bold and vibrant, often featuring feminine figures rendered in bright greens, blues, pinks and purples. The style, in the artist’s words, is “surreal,...

#12 Cannabis Insurance Specialists See Optimism in 2024 Data, Planning for Growth and More Capacity

Dec 15 2023 // From a broad view, data from the cannabis industry fails to paint an informative picture of what lies ahead for the business in 2024 or what the year holds for insurance professionals specializing in servicing the...

#13 Bipartisan Bill Would End Section 230 Immunity for Generative AI

Jun 15 2023 // Two U.S. senators introduced legislation on Wednesday that would allow social media companies to be sued for spreading harmful material created with artificial intelligence. The law would open the door for lawsuits to...

#14 Microsoft CEO Says Tech Giants Battling for Content to Build AI

Oct 3 2023 // Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said Monday tech giants were competing for vast troves of content needed to train artificial intelligence, and complained Google was locking up content with expensive and exclusive...

#15 Microsoft Agrees to Union Contract Terms Governing Its Use of AI

Dec 11 2023 // Microsoft Corp. has agreed to union contract language governing its use of artificial intelligence, creating an avenue for workers to challenge how it deploys the evolving technology. As part of negotiations with the...

#16 Meta Used Copyrighted Books for AI Training Despite Lawyers’ Warnings, Say Authors

Dec 13 2023 // Meta Platforms’ lawyers had warned it about the legal perils of using thousands of pirated books to train its AI models, but the company did it anyway, according to a new filing in a copyright infringement lawsuit...

#17 Delaware Takes Fight Against IRS Over Captive Insurers’ Data to Supreme Court

Jul 25 2023 // The state of Delaware is going to the Supreme Court in its fight with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over the release of information on captive insurers. This fight has placed Delaware’s state regulation of...

#18 How Aerial Imagery and AI are Helping Florida’s Insurers with Climate Change and Fraud

Aug 25 2023 // Residents of Southeastern states like Florida will be looking ahead to the heart of hurricane season with trepidation. With climate change bringing storms that are wetter, slower and more prone to intensifying rapidly,...

#19 Putting AI to Work Within the ‘Digital Round Trip’: Applied Systems CEO

Nov 15 2023 // The data is out there. The challenge is how to amass it, standardize it and make it useful. Taylor Rhodes, CEO of Applied Systems, stopped by the On Point podcast with host Peter Aartrijk to talk about the future of data...

#20 AI Fused With Trade Data May Finally Smooth Clunky Supply Chains

Sep 5 2023 // The dawn of artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT may revolutionize the way both the public and private sector use data to ferret out risks and opportunities in the $32 trillion global trading system. During the...