Best Read InsurTech Headlines
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#1 U.S. Targets Google’s Online Ad Business Monopoly in Latest Big Tech Lawsuit
Jan 25 2023 // The U.S. Justice Department accused Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday of abusing its dominance in digital advertising, threatening to dismantle a key business at the heart of one of Silicon Valley’s most...
#2 Nine More States Join Federal Lawsuit Against Google Over Ad Tech
Apr 18 2023 // Nine states, including Michigan and Nebraska, have joined a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google which alleges the search and advertising company broke antitrust law in running its digital...
#3 How AI Can Transform Insureds’ Lives in 2023
Jan 23 2023 // Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a popular topic of year-end prediction articles in recent years. Looking ahead in 2023, I offer a viewpoint that goes beyond the marketing buzz with my forecasts of the value insurers...
#4 U.S. Airports’ Outdated Tech Leaves Planes Vulnerable to Runway Near-Misses
Apr 6 2023 // A crucial safety system that’s relied on to avoid potentially fatal collisions at major US airports is aging and plagued by outages that have left travelers unprotected for months at a time. At some airports, it...
#5 AI Leaders Urge Labs to Halt Training Models More Powerful Than ChatGPT-4
Mar 30 2023 // Artificial intelligence experts and industry leaders, including Elon Musk, University of California Berkeley computer science professor Stuart Russell and Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak, are calling on developers to...
#6 Tech Firms Try to Muzzle Workers With NDAs, SEC Tipsters Say
Apr 20 2023 // Some top US technology companies are forcing workers to sign allegedly illegal labor agreements, according to complaints filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, despite years of enforcement by the agency against...
#7 Getty Images Lawsuit Says Stability AI Misused Photos to Train AI
Feb 7 2023 // Stock photo provider Getty Images has sued artificial intelligence company Stability AI Inc, accusing it in a lawsuit made public on Monday of misusing more than 12 million Getty photos to train its Stable Diffusion AI...
#8 Low-Tech Cyber Attacks Took Advantage of Fixable Vulnerabilities in 2022: Coalition
May 16 2023 // Outdated technology, poor software maintenance, and the dreaded clicking of a malicious link were most to blame for cyber insurance claims experienced by policyholders in 2022, according to a new report from...
#9 Big Tech Layoffs May Further Disrupt Equity and Diversity Efforts
Jan 6 2023 // 2023 is shaping up as a challenging year to be a woman or minority working in the tech sector, or even a person with one too many years under their belt. Surging firings by technology companies last year are...
#10 States Are Rushing to Regulate Deepfakes as AI Goes Mainstream
Jun 21 2023 // Images of former President Donald Trump hugging and kissing Dr. Anthony Fauci, his ex-chief medical adviser. Pornographic depictions of Hollywood actresses and internet influencers. A photo of an explosion at the...
#11 GEICO, Location-Tech what3words Partner to Enhance Roadside Assistance
Dec 15 2022 // GEICO and location-technology provider what3words announced a new partnership to provide enhanced roadside assistance to customers across the U.S. With what3words, GEICO teams can pinpoint a customer’s precise...
#12 AI Tools Can Create New Images, but Who Is the Real Artist?
Jan 20 2023 // ountless artists have taken inspiration from “The Starry Night” since Vincent Van Gogh painted the swirling scene in 1889. Now artificial intelligence systems are doing the same, training themselves on a vast...
#13 ChatGPT Creator OpenAI Sued for Theft of Private Data in ‘AI Arms Race’
Jun 29 2023 // ChatGPT creator OpenAI Inc. is stealing “vast amounts” of personal information to train its artificial intelligence models in a heedless hunt for profits, a group of anonymous individuals claimed in a lawsuit...
#14 AI ‘Trustworthiness’ Is Focal Point of New Government Inquiry
Apr 11 2023 // A US Commerce Department agency is opening an inquiry into how companies and regulators can ensure that artificial intelligence systems are trustworthy, legal and ethical. The probe by the National Telecommunications and...
#15 Google’s Rush to Win in AI Led to Ethical Lapses, Employees Say
Apr 20 2023 // Shortly before Google introduced Bard, its AI chatbot, to the public in March, it asked employees to test the tool. One worker’s conclusion: Bard was “a pathological liar,” according to screenshots of the...
#16 U.S. and EU to Launch First-of-its-Kind AI Agreement
Jan 30 2023 // The United States and European Union on Friday announced an agreement to speed up and enhance the use of artificial intelligence to improve agriculture, healthcare, emergency response, climate forecasting and the electric...
#17 Lloyd’s Lab Selects 13 Insurtechs for Its Next Innovation Accelerator
Mar 30 2023 // The Lloyd’s marketplace announced it has invited 13 insurtechs to join the next cohort of its innovation accelerator, the Lloyd’s Lab, following a competitive pitch process where the firms presented innovative...
#18 EEOC Warns Employers to Check AI Workplace Monitoring Tools for Bias
May 26 2023 // The head of the U.S. agency charged with enforcing civil rights in the workplace says artificial intelligence-driven “bossware” tools that closely track the whereabouts, keystrokes and productivity of workers...
#19 Ignited by Pandemic Changes, Insurers Embraced Innovation
Apr 5 2023 // The pandemic kickstarted the new wave of accepting and using innovative systems and methods in the insurance industry. It opened eyes to the ways that innovations and technology could do more than just efficiently get the...
#20 How Generative AI Could Steer Commercial Trucking Insurance in New Direction
Apr 17 2023 // Generative AI is the next big technology trend in just about every industry. But for such a people-centric industry, how will ChatGPT, DALL-E 2 and Bing AI truly impact the insurance sector? Just ask ChatGPT, as some...
