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Oriental Insurance to invest Rs 500 cr over 3 yrs to bolster digital capabilities
Sanjay Joshi, CMD,Oriental Insurance Company On the claim...
Power Assets: AI and data centre growth drive insurance demand across Asia
Lyo Foo, Head of Power, Natural Resources Asia, at Willis said, “AI...
“India’s medical tourism has a huge potential”, says Piyush Goyal
Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal Highlighting India's cost advantage, Goyal said the country offers clinical excellence and advanced technologies while healthcare costs are "60 to 80 per cent lower than other parts of the world, particularly the...
Blue Machines AI launches Aurora, a BFSI-native speech-to-text model
Aurora is designed for real-time financial conversations in India, where customers frequently switch languages, combine English financial terminology with regional languages, and communicate over noisy or low-bandwidth telephone connections. Bengaluru: Blue Machines...
Alternative-fuel car: Sales more than petrol vehicles on cost, E20 concerns, dealers’ body says
Alternative-fuel models, including compressed natural gas, hybrid and electric models, accounted for nearly 42% of passenger-vehicle sales, while petrol vehicles stood at about 41%, according to the Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA), which...
OpenAI commits $1 billion to cyberdefense effort amid AI safety scrutiny
OpenAI has faced increased scrutiny since its own AI agent breached systems at open-source platform Hugging Face during a July test and attempted to hide its actions. Similar concerns have emerged at rival Anthropic. Both firms are preparing for mega IPOs. OpenAI said...
Data Centres: Global investment boom could create USD200 billion commercial insurance opportunity amid rising accumulation risks, says Swiss Re
Gianfranco Lot, Swiss Re's Chief Underwriting Officer P&C Re, says: "We are seeing the digital economy become a real economy. AI needs data centres, power grids and increasingly complex infrastructure – and all of it needs insurance. That creates growth...
ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude face widespread outages; AWS also hit
According to data from Downdetector, reports of outages began surging in the evening (IST), with users flagging issues ranging from total website inaccessibility to internal server errors when attempting to generate AI responses. New Delhi:Major artificial...
Home secy Govind Mohan reviews preparedness of Himalayan states/UT for GLOF and snow avalanches
Govind Mohan,Union Home Secretary The meeting concluded with directions for continued inter-agency coordination, regular sharing of risk information and strengthening of early warning and response mechanisms to minimise loss of life and property in vulnerable...
German power grid hit twice in latest suspected sabotage
Countries across Europe are racing to harden power grids against sabotage, cyberattacks and military threats. The push follows Russia’s repeated attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and a series of sabotage incidents across Europe. Germany’s power grid was hit...
Ships adopt makeshift anti-drone defences as Black Sea attacks intensify
The scale of attacks from Russia and Ukraine on commercial ships and port infrastructure has increased sharply and may rise further, said Corey Ranslem, chief executive of maritime security group Dryad Global. Tankers and cargo ships are transiting the Bosphorus...
IGI launches of Cipher, a Specialty Treaty Reinsurance platform focussing Cyber
Waleed Jabsheh,President & CEO,IGI The initial focus of Cipher is to develop a portfolio of cyber treaty business with lead capabilities, targeting high-growth emerging risks within an MGA structure. This platform can be utilized for future growth and...