AI in Insurance: How three forward-looking insurers are infusing AI into their front, middle, and back offices

Incumbent insurers have accelerated their use of mature AI deployments in the past year to meet changing customer expectations and better compete with insurtechs.  Insider Intelligence details AI use cases within the insurance industry, and explores potential risks to this tech, in our AI in Insurance Report. Do you work in the Fintech industry? Get…

Cancer vaccine could be available before 2030, says scientist couple behind COVID-19 shot

An employee holds up a vial of an oncological product under development, at the BioNTech research institute in Mainz, Germany, on October 5, 2022. ANDRE PAIN/AFP via Getty Images Professors Ozlem Tureci and Ugur Sahin co-founded BioNTech, which partnered with Pfizer to develop a COVID-19 shot. The scientists told the BBC’s “Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg”…

Obama says ‘a lot of voters’ got ‘complacent’ when Roe v. Wade was the law of the land

Former President Barack Obama. AP Photo/Alastair Grant Former President Obama said “a lot of voters” became “complacent” when Roe v. Wade was the law. Obama remarked on Roe and the Supreme Court during a recent episode of “Pod Save America.” “I do think it’s important for progressives not to count too much on the courts,”…

AI-generated images of workers who don’t exist are appearing on companies’ ‘about us’ pages

Informa Systems is one of the companies named in an Insider report as using AI-generated images of fake “employees” on its website. informa/Insider Some companies are using AI technology to put fake “staff” on their “about us” pages. An Insider report by Evan Ratliff found numerous examples of firms using such images. One company owner…

Juror dismissed from Michigan governor kidnapping case accused of flirting with defendant

Paul Bellar, middle, appears before Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Wilson on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022 for trial in Jackson, Mich. J. Scott Park/Jackson Citizen Patriot via AP, Pool A juror was accused of flirting with a defendant charged in connection with the plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor. The female juror was relieved of…