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Chaucer launches affirmative AI liability cover
As AI adoption continues to surge, AI incidents have spurred over...
M&S, Co-op cyberattackers duped IT help desks into resetting passwords, says report
“Criminal activity online – including, but not limited to,...
June 1 Renewals: Property-catastrophe pricing up 33%, says Howden Tiger
P&C reinsurance prices up an average 33% at 1 June (highest since early 90s), driven by financial market volatility, inflation, geopolitical tensions, recent weather losses and the Turkey earthquakeReinsurers are in a period of “heightened risk aversion” and stand...
Amazon fined $25 mn for violating children’s privacy law, deceiving parents
"Amazon's history of misleading parents, keeping children's recordings indefinitely, and flouting parents' deletion requests violated COPPA and sacrificed privacy for profits," said Samuel Levine, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection San Francisco:...
Digitally advanced countries trust less on artificial intelligence: Swiss Re report
The most AI-trusting people hail from emerging digital growth markets such as India, Nigeria, Mexico, Indonesia, Philippines and Argentina` `What is surprising in 'Decoding Digital Trust: A consumer perspective' is that countries with advanced levels of digital...
Delta Air Lines faces proposed U.S. class action over carbon neutral claims
The complaint alleges that Delta is not living up to advertising that presents the Atlanta-based carrier as “the world’s first carbon-neutral airline,” saying it leads consumers to believe Delta hasn’t been responsible for releasing additional carbon into the...
Top AI CEOs, experts raise ‘Risk of Extinction’ from AI
“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” more than 350 signatories wrote in a letter published by the nonprofit Center for AI Safety (CAIS). Top artificial...
Taiwan rushes to prevent China from cutting off internet, phones
Audrey Tang, who heads Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs, says she wants the island’s $740 billion economy to be able to handle the possible collapse of all its communications in the event of an emergency by the end of next year Buffeted by earthquakes and the...
Japan’s largest insurer Tokio Marine joins defectors from Gfanz climate group
A spokesperson said Tokio Marine will continue to consider measures to realize a decarbonized society such as the use of renewable energy and emphasized it will keep a close eye on social and environmental causes Tokio Marine Holdings Inc., Japan’s largest insurer by...
19th SIRC 2023 on ‘(RE)INSURANCE RESET’ will be held in Singapore from 30 October to 2 November, will be an all in-person event
The Singapore Reinsurers’ Association (SRA) Chair, Marc Haushofer said “The SRA Executive Committee (EXCO) had deliberated intensely over the messaging that would appropriately encapsulate the state of the industry today, which had over the past few months displayed...
Typhoon Mawar is most powerful storm of 2023, so far
Mawar is now one of the three strongest storms ever to hit the North Pacific in May and is the undisputed most powerful — in terms of windspeed — of 2023 so far, according to Jeff Masters, a meteorologist for Yale Climate Connections. But there is still a lot of year...
Dutch watchdog looking into alleged Tesla data breach
The data protection office in Brandenburg, which is home to Tesla’s European gigafactory, described the data leak as “massive.” The data protection watchdog for the Netherlands said on Friday it was aware of possible Tesla data protection breaches, but it was too...