Author: Hunter

Flow Specialty, a specialty commercial brokerage, is announcing the industry’s first AI insurance broker. The brokerage’s platformless AI model has passed RPLU certification exams for the Cyber, Errors & Omissions, and Executive liability modules. It may be critically important as people struggle to get insurance in the wake of various disaster…Read More Read more

Jackson Reffitt has been flooded with threats online since Trump pardoned his father and almost 1,600 others for their part in January 6. Read more

The software development vendor now offers agentic AI-powered incident response that could dramatically minimize downtime.Read More Read more

Fiber-optic cables are creeping closer to processors in high-performance computers, replacing copper connections with glass. Technology companies hope to speed up AI and lower its energy cost by moving optical connections from outside the server onto the motherboard and then having them sidle up alongside the processor. Now tech firms are poised to go even… Read more

Plotly Dash is a Python-based data visualization tool that’s widely used by data scientists who prefer a code-first experience. To help lower the barrier to entry, the company behind Plotly Dash today released a major update that lets users generate visualizations and explore data through a natural language interface powered by generative AI. If you’re… Read more

If you’re prediabetic, this continuous blood glucose monitor slaps right onto your arm and tells you how to eat all day. Read more

The move means that people who don’t want to use Apple’s AI tech will need to manually disable it. Read more

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. OpenAI has upped its lobbying efforts nearly sevenfold OpenAI spent $1.76 million on government lobbying in 2024 and $510,000 in the last three months of the year alone, according to a new disclosure… Read more

Many organizations have experimented with AI, but they haven’t always gotten the full value from their investments. A host of issues standing in the way center on the accuracy, fairness, and security of AI systems. In response, organizations are actively exploring the principles of responsible AI: the idea that AI systems must be fair, transparent, and… Read more

Berkeley SkyDeck, the global hub for entrepreneurship and accelerator, along with UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), announced a partnership with Mayfield. The aims is to support AI-focused, student entrepreneurs with unparalleled access to venture capital and world-class mentorship. Part of the Mayfield AI Garage i…Read More Read more