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A tech investor recalled that an AI agent posted his personal bank balances into his company's Slack last Thursday.
Read the original →Most of eHealth's customers call during Medicare open enrollment. After struggling with high call volume, the company turned to voice AI agents for help.
Read the original →Sapiens International Corporation N.V. launched the inaugural Sapiens Insurance AI Maturity Index, an international study.
Read the original →Dedicated AI insurance policies are gaining ground. Much of the exposure still cuts across cyber, E&O, D&O and traditional casualty coverage.
Read the original →Lumen's Nasdaq debut puts its Alkira acquisition at the center of an AI networking pitch. The pitch is built on east-west connectivity and a cloud-native control plane.
Read the original →ElevenLabs, the AI voice and conversational agent developer, reached a $22bn valuation after completing a $300m employee tender offer. Banks, insurers and other financial services firms are increasingly deploying its technology across customer service and operational functions. The transaction doubles the company's valuation from its Series D in February.
Read the original →Gains for AI firms have overcome declines for financial, healthcare and consumer-focused companies.
Read the original →The Financial Conduct Authority will take up several recommendations from the Mills Review, including becoming more of an agentic regulator and scaling up innovation services. It will do so while resisting setting specific rules related to AI. This is according to FCA chief data, information and intelligence officer Jessica Rusu.
Read the original →The article describes hands-on experience with new services from OpenAI and Meta. At 9 a.m. local time on the 6th, an AI agent organized the day's schedule and important emails needing replies and sent them as a message. After being told how to handle each item, the AI sent replies itself and added a new appointment to the calendar app.
Read the original →Standard Chartered Bank published its global market outlook for the fourth quarter of 2026, saying it expects corporate earnings to drive markets. It also pointed to Taiwan's place in the global AI supply chain.
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