Technology/Science
Insurance Execs See Gen AI Necessary To Compete; Customers Wary
Insurance industry investments in generative AI are expected to surge by over 300 percent from 2023 to 2025 as organizations move from pilots in one or two areas to implementations in multiple ...
New App Tracked Coastal Flooding During Hurricane Helene
A web-based application that gathers crowdsourced data to identify flooding in coastal communities went live days before Hurricane Helene struck, allowing scientists to collect essential data during ...
Hurricane Milton Has Reshaped Storm Science Even Before Making Landfall
Long after the winds subside and the hard work of rebuilding begins, scientists responsible for predicting hurricanes will continue to replay Hurricane Milton over and ...
AI Being Used to Scam Small Business Owners, Says Nationwide Survey
Just when employees have learned to ignore scammy texts and emails from the boss, along comes the next generation of impersonation using artificial intelligence. Cybercriminals increasingly use ...
Insurance CEOs Talk Gen AI, Growth, Workforce Strategies
A much higher percentage of insurance chief executives say that generative AI is a top investment priority for their firms than peers in other industries, according to a survey report published by ...
Filling a Perceived Void, Aon Launches U.S. Severe Convective Storm Model
Just a few weeks after unofficially announcing that a new catastrophe model was in the works, Aon officially announced the launch of a model to analyze U.S. Severe Convective Storms this week. Paul ...
AI-Assisted Insurance Fraud on the Rise: UK Report
There's been a rise in AI -driven insurance fraud in the UK, as observed by claims handlers, according to fraud-prevention platform Sprout.ai and a survey conducted by Censuswide in July 2024. The ...
Exploding Pagers in Lebanon Spur Theories on Sabotage Method
From the moment pagers began exploding across Lebanon Tuesday, theories began to circulate on how devices considered outmoded in much of the world were turned into dangerous weapons that killed ...