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Driverless Truck Companies Plan to Ditch Human Copilots in 2024
Driverless trucks with no humans on board will soon cruise Texas highways if three startup firms have their way, despite objections from critics who say financial pressures, not safety, is behind the ...
Merck Settles Coverage Dispute With Insurers Over War Exclusion in NotPetya Attack
Merck & Co. Inc. has reportedly reached a deal with insurers over a closely watched coverage dispute related to a massive cyber attack in 2017. The New Jersey Supreme Court in July 2023 agreed to ...
Why a framework to build agents is necessary, but not the same thing as AI doing insurance work. Almost every...
Latest Japan 7.5M Earthquake Estimated at $6.4B in Total Insured Losses
The 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck off the west coast of the island of Honshu in Japan on Jan. 1, 2024, will lead to an estimated $6.4 billion in total insured losses, according to Karen Clark ...
Survey: Nearly 25% of Drivers Reduced Coverage Due to Rising Costs
A new survey reveals that nearly a quarter of drivers opted for less car insurance coverage than they wanted in 2023. The national poll of more than 1,200 American drivers by Jerry, a car insurance ...
U.S. Labor Agency Says SpaceX Illegally Fired Workers Critical of Elon Musk
Rocket and satellite maker SpaceX on Wednesday was accused by a U.S. labor agency of unlawfully firing eight employees for circulating a letter calling founder and CEO Elon Musk a "distraction and ...
Air Traffic Communication Focus of Fatal Tokyo Runway Crash Probe
Investigators were focusing on communication between air traffic control and two aircraft at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Wednesday, a day after a large passenger plane and a Japanese coast guard ...
FTC Reaches Settlement With XCast Labs Over Illegal Robocalls
U.S. regulators and XCast Labs have agreed on a proposed settlement of charges that the company facilitated billions of illegal robocalls, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Tuesday. The FTC ...
EEOC Says No Need to Pause Lawsuit Against Tesla for Race Bias
A U.S. anti-discrimination agency has asked a federal judge to reject Tesla Inc's bid to pause a lawsuit alleging widespread racial bias at the electric carmaker's flagship Fremont, California, ...