Berkshire Shareholders Reject Diversity, AI Proposals

Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on May 3 rejected a resolution requiring the company to report on risks…

Turning One Human Underwriter Into Five, ‘Turbocharging’ E&S

Some property/casualty insurers talk about experimenting with artificial intelligence to automate call center responses and back-office…

WTW Launches AI Monitoring Tool ‘Radar Vision’ for Insurers

WTW has announced the North American launch of Radar Vision, an AI-driven performance monitoring tool custom-built…

Insurtech 1Fort Raises $7.5M to Support AI Binding Tech for Brokers

1Fort, the AI platform for business insurance, announced it raised $7.5 million in an oversubscribed funding…

AI Weather Models Promise Super Granular, Specialist Forecasts

The weather forecasting industry has made big leaps in accuracy but has struggled with hyper-local predictions.…

Who are climate-conscious consumers? Not who you’d expect, says Northwind Climate

Sometimes, surprises are lurking in everyday data. Take a category of consumers that Doug Rubin’s startup,…

Meta jumps aboard the nuclear-powered data center bandwagon

Earlier this year, Meta tried to get its own nuclear powered data center the easy way,…

Amp Robotics raises $91M to build more robot-filled waste-sorting facilities

Recycling today kind of sucks. People are generally confused about what can be recycled and where.…

Google Photos launches a ‘2024 Recap’ for a look back at this year’s memories

Spotify Wrapped isn’t the only service offering a year-end recap these days. In addition to the…

If you can make this AI bot fall in love, you could win thousands of dollars

Ever wondered if you could get an AI bot to fall in love with you? Now…

Exxon can’t resist the AI power gold rush

AI continues to reshuffle power and energy markets with even oil giants like Exxon Mobil getting…

Why Marc Andreessen was ‘very scared’ after meeting with the Biden administration about AI

After famed investor Marc Andreessen met with government officials about the future of tech last May,…

What are AI ‘world models,’ and why do they matter?

World models, also known as world simulators, are being touted by some as the next big…

2025 will be the year climate tech learns to love AI

A lot can change in a few months. The climate tech world hasn’t exactly been turned…

Gridware’s boxes literally listen to power lines to find outages

Tim Barat loved being a lineman at an electric company in Australia, where he grew up,…

How to switch off Apple Intelligence on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Apple released new software updates on Monday, including iOS 18.3, which automatically opts users into Apple…

Meta turns to solar — again — in its data center-building boom

Tech companies may be vocal about their love of advanced nuclear power — the flashy trend…

Self Inspection raises $3M for its AI-powered vehicle inspections

A number of startups are racing to make vehicle inspections faster, easier, and cheaper. Self Inspection,…

States’ AI-Related Legislation Aimed at Insurance Is ‘Unfounded’, Says NAMIC

Policy discussions on the use of artificial intelligence in insurance are “unfounded” and “detrimental to policyholders,”…

YouTube AI updates include auto dubbing expansion, age ID tech, and more

In his annual letter, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan dubbed AI one of the company’s four “big…

Catastrophe Experts Tap AI to Tackle Soaring Insured Losses

Insurers are betting on a suite of new AI-driven techniques to better predict surging losses from…

Data center tweaks could unlock 76 GW of new power capacity in the US

Tech companies, data center developers, and power utilities have been panicking over the prospect of runaway…