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ZestyAI Provides AI-Driven Risk Analytics for Marsh McLennan Agency
Feb 13 2026 // ZestyAI said Marsh McLennan Agency has adopted its risk analytics to enhance risk assessments for a small segment of its high-net-worth clients with catastrophe-prone properties. The provider of AI-powered property and...
AIG’s Zaffino: Outcomes From AI Use Went From ‘Aspirational’ to ‘Beyond Expectations’
Feb 13 2026 // American International Group (AIG) made substantial progress in artificial intelligence within the last year, and its outcomes and capabilities are more than previously predicted. The insurer during an Investor Day less...
Owner of Insurtech Startup InsuranceDekho Is Said to Plan $250 Million India IPO
Feb 13 2026 // Girnar Insurance Brokers Pvt., which operates insurance tech startup InsuranceDekho, is weighing an initial public offering in Mumbai that could raise as much as $250 million, according to people familiar with the...
Risky Future Series: AI Tools for Aerial, Geospatial Intelligence ‘Demo Day’ on Feb. 11
Feb 10 2026 // Insurance Journal’s Risky Future series is hosting the “AI Tools for Aerial and Geospatial Intelligence” Demo Day, a series of free AI tool demonstrations designed exclusively for carriers, MGAs, claims...
Insurance Broker Stocks Sink as AI App Sparks Disruption Fears
Feb 10 2026 // US insurance broker stocks were pummeled Monday as the launch of an artificial intelligence tool from privately held online insurance shopping platform Insurify sparked fears about the industry facing disruption. The...
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...
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...
