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#1 Tech Startups in US, France, Germany Help in Fight Against Wildfires
Sep 25 2023 // This year has been a challenging one for Phil Schneider, who hasn’t seen wildfire behavior like this in his 47-year firefighting career. Blazes raged through more than 2,000 acres of wildland in recent months in his...
#2 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...
#3 Assumable Mortgages Could Save Buyers Thousands in Interest, Startup Says
Sep 20 2023 // A New York startup company said it is now offering a platform that will make it easier for homebuyers to assume a mortgage from the seller, potentially saving buyers significantly over current interest rates. Roam, as...
#4 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...
#5 Tech Firm Behind Kentucky School Bus Route Snafu Had Problems in Ohio
Aug 17 2023 // LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The company behind a disastrous change to a Kentucky city`s school bus routes that resulted in more than a week of canceled classes had similar problems in two cities in neighboring Ohio last...
#6 Bill Gates-Backed Florida Startup Aims to Turn Oil-Drilling Gas into Useful Methanol
Oct 3 2023 // (Bloomberg) — Semi trailer-sized machines could provide a unique solution to a major source of the fossil fuel industry’s methane problem. Rather than flaring or venting the planet-warming gas into the...
#7 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,...
#8 Pelicans’ Zion Williamson and Family Sued for $1.8M by Tech Company
Jul 28 2023 // NEW ORLEANS (AP) – New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson, his stepfather and his mother allegedly have failed to pay back $1.8 million of a $2 million loan from a California-based technology company. In a civil...
#9 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...
#10 After Countrywide Pause, InsurTech Hippo Slowly Reemerging Next Week
Sep 8 2023 // A profitability problem that would have otherwise taken insurtech Hippo half a year to correct is on the mend after just 30 days, the chief executive officer said at an investor conference Thursday. Speaking at the Keefe,...
#11 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...
#12 Tech Firm Settles Over Failure to Accommodate Deaf Job Candidate
Dec 4 2023 // A San Diego-based technology firm for the hospitality industry has avoided a trial over charges it discriminated against a qualified deaf applicant from Massachusetts for a remote IT job. U.S. District Judge Richard G....
#13 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...
#14 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,...
#15 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...
#16 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...
#17 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...
#18 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...
#19 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...
#20 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...
