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Tankers rate hit new high amid US sanctions
Figures from analytics firm Kpler suggest that close to 48 million...
Jitters over AI spending set to grow as US tech giants flood bond market
Since September, public bond issuance by four of the major cloud...
Howden forays into Japanese captive consulting and management markets with acquisition of Foresight
Takuya Aibe as CEO of Howden Japan’s retail business Foresight is headquartered in Tokyo with 17 staff across six offices and a management team that have previously held senior roles at leading Japanese insurance companies; it manages captives for 13 large Japanese...
Lloyd’s of London plans overhaul of ‘unclear’ conduct rules
Lloyd’s also said it proposed a new category of misconduct aimed at those who mistreat witnesses and whistleblowers. Other categories of misconduct include dishonesty and bullying and harassment London: Lloyd’s of London said it plans to overhaul its rules on dealing...
Top EU privacy regulator opens probe into Google’s AI
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), the lead EU regulator for most of the top U.S. internet firms due to the location of their EU operations in Ireland, said the probe concerned the Alphabet Inc unit’s Pathways Language Model 2 (PaLM 2) The top EU privacy...
Musk criticises Australia’s proposed `Misinformation Law’
Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X Australia’s Labor government unveiled legislation which could fine internet platforms up to 5% of their global revenue for enabling misinformation, joining a worldwide push to rein in borderless tech giants Elon Musk, owner...
Covid-19 continues cause excess mortality in US and UK, says Swiss Re
Report suggests potential excess mortality in the general population of up to 3% for the US by 2033 and 2.5% in the UK, the longest period of elevated peacetime excess mortality in the US. Key driver of excess mortality is the lingering impact of COVID-19; both as a...
Strongest typhoon since 1949 hits Shanghai and knocks out power to some homes
Typhoon Yagi hit China’s southern Hainan island earlier this month and has caused devastation in Southeast Asia. In Myanmar, Yagi caused at least 74 deaths with dozens missing. Four deaths were reported in Hainan, at least 10 have died in Thailand and 20 in the...
Tech companies commit to fighting harmful AI sexual imagery by curbing nudity from datasets
In a deal brokered by the Biden administration, tech companies Adobe, Anthropic, Cohere, Microsoft and OpenAI said they would voluntarily commit to removing nude images from AI training datasets “when appropriate and depending on the purpose of the model.” WASHINGTON:...
Buffett’s insurance leader Ajit Jain sells large part of Berkshire stake
Ajait Jain, vice chairman, Berkshire Hathaway Jain’s selling occurred five days after Berkshire’s share price peaked above $727,000, and less than two weeks after its market valuation first topped $1 trillion Ajit Jain, the longtime top insurance executive at Warren...
DBS looks for bancassurance partnership in India and Taiwan
The Singapore-based lender is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. as an adviser on potential bancassurance agreements for those markets, the people said, asking not to be identified because the deliberations are private DBS Group Holdings Ltd. is considering forming...
Moody’s acquires Praedicat, adds Casualty and Liability modeling capabilities
“As losses from catastrophic events are increasing, insurers are constantly looking for science-based casualty data and analytics,” said Rob Fauber, President and Chief Executive Officer of Moody’s NEW YORK: Moody’s Corporation announced on Thursday that it has...