Best Read Artificial Intelligence Headlines
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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 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,...
#4 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...
#5 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...
#6 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...
#7 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,...
#8 Don’t Expect Quick Fixes in ‘Red-Teaming’ of AI Models; Security Was an Afterthought
Aug 15 2023 // White House officials concerned by AI chatbots’ potential for societal harm and the Silicon Valley powerhouses rushing them to market are heavily invested in a three-day competition ending Sunday at the DefCon hacker...
#9 Is Trampoline Job Landscape Work? AI Says Yes. 11th Circuit Says It’s Not Covered
May 30 2024 // Is the installation of an in-ground trampoline considered landscaping work, covered by a landscaper’s liability insurance policy? Artificial intelligence programs suggest that it is. But human judges with the 11th...
#10 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...
#11 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...
#12 Connecticut, Other States’ Lawmakers Have a Lot of Questions About AI
Aug 9 2023 // As state lawmakers rush to get a handle on fast-evolving artificial intelligence technology, they`re often focusing first on their own state governments before imposing restrictions on the private sector. Legislators are...
#13 Agency E&O Webinar: Panelists Discuss Changing Exposures, AI & More
Dec 13 2023 // While today’s insurance agency errors and omissions market remains mostly stable, emerging exposures, cyber risk, natural disasters and more could shape its course ahead. Insurance Journal gathered three experts to...
#14 National Security Agency Is Starting an Artificial Intelligence Security Center
Oct 5 2023 // The National Security Agency is starting an artificial intelligence security center – a crucial mission as AI capabilities are increasingly acquired, developed and integrated into U.S. defense and intelligence systems,...
#15 Artificial Intelligence Not Main Cause of Recent Insurance Layoffs: AM Best
Nov 15 2023 // AM Best does not believe artificial intelligence is the main cause of recent insurance industry layoffs. In commentary released today, the credit rating agency wrote that “it is too soon to cite AI as the leading...
#16 What’s to Come in 2024: Hard Market, AI Expansion, More Catastrophes, Network Consolidation
Feb 5 2024 // No one can predict the future, but insurance professionals are likely the best qualified when it comes to predicting risk. For this special report, Insurance Journal asked industry thought leaders their predictions for the...
#17 US Intelligence Agencies’ Embrace of Generative AI Is Wary and Urgent
May 28 2024 // Long before generative AI’s boom, a Silicon Valley firm contracted to collect and analyze non-classified data on illicit Chinese fentanyl trafficking made a compelling case for its embrace by U.S. intelligence...
#18 Tutoring Firm Settles EEOC’s First Bias Lawsuit Involving AI Software
Aug 11 2023 // A China-based tutoring company has agreed to settle a U.S. government agency’s novel lawsuit claiming it used hiring software powered by artificial intelligence to illegally weed out older job applicants. The 2022...
#19 US, Britain, Other Countries Ink Agreement to Make AI ‘Secure by Design’
Nov 28 2023 // The United States, Britain and more than a dozen other countries on Sunday unveiled what a senior U.S. official described as the first detailed international agreement on how to keep artificial intelligence safe from rogue...
#20 Law Firms Are Recruiting More AI Experts as Clients Demand ‘More for Less’
Jul 5 2023 // Chatbots, data scientists, software engineers. As clients demand more for less, law firms are hiring growing numbers of staff who’ve studied technology not tort law to try and stand out from their rivals. Law firms...
