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#1 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...
#2 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...
#3 Expense Ratio Analysis: AI, Remote Work Drive Better P/C Insurer Results
Jan 14 2026 // In separate reports last week, AM Best and Morgan Stanley analyzed P/C insurance industry expense ratios, with one reporting a 2.4-point drop over the past decade and the other projecting another potential 2.0-point...
#4 Insurtech Lemonade Starts Autonomous Car Product With Tesla’s Data
Jan 21 2026 // Insurtech Lemonade said it has launched Lemonade Autonomous Car insurance, and will begin with a technical collaboration with Tesla that gives the insurer access to vehicle data. For starters, Lemonade said the new...
#5 Experian: AI Agents Could Overtake Human Error as Major Cause of Data Breaches
Jan 13 2026 // Artificial intelligence continues to be at the center of Experian’s annual breach forecast for 2026, with the scope, frequency and cost of cyber incidents heavily influenced by the technology. AI makes its way into...
#6 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...
#7 10,000 Travelers Employees Get AI Assistants Via Anthropic Partnership
Jan 20 2026 // Nearly 10,000 engineers, data scientists, analysts and product owners at Travelers are being empowered with personalized AI assistants, Travelers announced in mid-January. In a joint announcement with Anthropic, the two...
#8 AI Is the Biggest Mover on Allianz Risk Barometer; Cyber Takes Top Spot for Fifth Year
Jan 15 2026 // Cyber once again ranked as the top global risk in 2026, according to the latest Allianz Risk Barometer, coming in No. 1 in every region and across all company sizes. Artificial intelligence took the No. 2 spot, up from...
#9 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...
#10 Google, AI Firm Settle Florida Mother’s Lawsuit Over Son’s Suicide
Jan 8 2026 // Alphabet’s Google and artificial-intelligence startup Character.AI have agreed to settle a lawsuit from a Florida woman who alleged a Character chatbot led to the suicide of her 14-year-old son, according to a Jan. 7...
#11 AI Company Eightfold Sued for Helping Companies Secretly Score Job Seekers
Jan 22 2026 // Eightfold AI, a venture capital-backed artificial intelligence hiring platform used by Microsoft, PayPal and many other Fortune 500 companies, is being sued for allegedly compiling reports used to screen job applicants...
#12 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...
#13 ‘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...
#14 Oracle Sued by Bondholders Over Losses Tied to AI Buildout
Jan 15 2026 // Oracle was sued on Wednesday by bondholders who say they suffered losses because the company chaired by billionaire Larry Ellison concealed its need to sell significant additional debt to build out its artificial...
#15 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...
#16 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...
#17 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...
#18 DeSantis Amplifies Warning on ‘Real Perils’ of AI, Data Centers and Pushes Regulation
Jan 15 2026 // Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is ratcheting up a campaign against the potential dangers of artificial intelligence and data centers, resisting President Donald Trump’s effort to block states from meddling with Big...
#19 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...
#20 Michigan Bulletin Provides Guidance for AI Use in Financial Services
Jan 20 2026 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services issued a bulletin to provide guidance to financial service providers on the use of artificial intelligence. The bulletin says that financial service providers...
