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Swiss Re Launches Digital Market Center Supported by Microsoft Data Analytics, AI Tools

Swiss Re has formed a strategic alliance with Microsoft Corp., which is providing digital tools to support Swiss Re’s new Digital Market Center. The Digital Market Center is designed to help develop next-generation, large-scale tools to transform the way the …

Analyst Warns Regulatory Battle Over AI Bias to Grow; Lemonade Argues It’s Fair

As insurers introduce artificial intelligence into pricing and claims handling activities, regulatory focus on disparate impact will grow into “one of the biggest topics of the next 10 years,” a well-known insurance analyst predicted at an industry conference. V.J. Dowling, …

Electricity Can’t Hold Candle to Artificial Intelligence in Significance: Alphabet CEO

Google’s chief executive officer has left no doubt about how important he thinks artificial intelligence will be to humanity. “AI is one of the most profound things we’re working on as humanity. It’s more profound than fire or electricity,” Alphabet …

IBM Calls For Rules to Curb Bias in Artificial Intelligence

IBM called for rules aimed at eliminating bias in artificial intelligence to ease concerns that the technology relies on data that bakes in past discriminatory practices and could harm women, minorities, the disabled, older Americans and others. As it seeks …

Digital MGA C-Quence Joins with Insurtech Cytora to Transform Mid-Market Insurance

C-Quence, the digital managing general agent (MGA), and Cytora, the insurtech startup that operates an artificial intelligence-powered platform, are joining forces to “turbocharge innovation” in commercial property & casualty (P/C) underwriting. C-Quence will launch its P/C suite in January using …

Watch Out Finance, Business, Tech Workers. Artificial Intelligence Is Coming.

Artificial intelligence is coming for America’s high-paid professions as it creates winners and losers across the labor market like never before. White-collar jobs and better-educated occupations along with production workers are among the most susceptible to AI’s spread into the …

Salesforce Unveils Software Using Amazon AI to Speed Up Call Center Responses

Business software provider Salesforce.com Inc. said on Tuesday it would use artificial intelligence (AI) technology from Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing unit to improve customer service apps. Salesforce makes software systems that businesses use to house customer information, like which products …

China’s Ping An Insurance to Spend $22B on Tech, From AI to Blockchain

Ping An Insurance wants to be valued more like a technology company. Its executives have yet to convince investors their planned $22 billion spend on everything from artificial intelligence to blockchain will work. While Ping An (Group) Co.’s Hong Kong-traded …

It’s Not Just Factories Turning to Automation to Stem Wage Growth, Boost Earnings

U.S. companies are responding to the lowest unemployment rate in almost 50 years by increasing their focus on automation in order to maintain healthy margins as labor costs tick higher, a Reuters analysis of corporate earnings transcripts shows. The attempt …

Insurtech FRISS and Munich Re Extend Partnership to Support Insurers Fighting Fraud

FRISS, the insurtech provider of AI-powered anti-fraud solutions for the P&C insurance industry, has extended its partnership with Munich Re to now support insurers in their fight against fraud. Following their successful cooperation in Latin America and Iberia, the partnership …