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OpenAI’s artificial intelligence models accessed publicly available information from US government websites, including those of the Census Bureau and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company’s agentic AI systems interacted with SEC.gov and Investor.gov, as well as publicly available data from Census.gov, people familiar with the situation said, asking not to be identified discussing private matters. OpenAI separately confirmed that its models accessed publicly available information from the websites during training and evaluation of the technology. Earlier Friday, the company said it had notified “dozens” of organizations, including governments and universities, whose websites may have been hampered by visits from…

Davis Cartage Co., a transportation, warehousing and logistics company headquartered in Corunna, Michigan, violated federal law by allowing its president of logistics to sexually harass two female employees at its Owosso, Michigan location, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, in 2023, the president of logistics, who is also on the board of directors and part owner of the company, passed over more qualified applicants to hire two young women whose photos he found on social media. He then subjected both women to harassing and possessive behavior, including regular comments…

The US Department of Agriculture has caught its first wild screwworm fly since the parasite was detected in the country’s livestock nearly four months ago, signaling the potential for continued spread even as overall cases have remained muted. The wild screwworm fly was detected in Brewster County, Texas, on Friday. It was caught in one of the USDA’s more than 100 screwworm-specific fly traps along the US border. The spread of the parasitic fly, whose larvae burrow into the wounds of animals, has remained relatively contained, with just 50 cases in the US since June, according to the USDA. A…

BevCap Management has added David Gross as a business development Executive, where he will focus on expanding the reach of the company’s Dealer Management Group (DMG) and Sharefield captive solutions throughout the Midwest and Western United States. Gross brings more than 18 years of insurance industry experience, with a career spanning both the carrier and brokerage sectors. He held middle-market roles with Sentry Insurance and Huntington Bank, where he developed extensive expertise in client and broker engagement before transitioning into the captive insurance space with Garnet Captive. His combination of traditional insurance knowledge and alternative risk financing experience positions him…

WTW said it released Radar AI Assistant, a new natural language capability within Radar Vision, its AI-driven performance and experience monitoring tool built for insurers. The AI technology enables pricing, underwriting, claims and portfolio management teams to identify emerging issues and uncover hidden patterns within their data, providing real-time, actionable insights for competitive advantage. Radar AI Assistant goes on to explain the likely drivers and feeds these insights directly into recommended pricing and underwriting actions. “A single emerging risk signal may be too weak to justify action, said Pardeep Bassi, global proposition leader in data science, insurance consulting and technology…

A powerful Nor’easter storm with heavy rains and strong winds that took at least one life and flooded low-lying communities continued to menace the Mid-Atlantic and New England states today. The National Weather Service said the storm will continue to bring coastal flooding, rip currents, strong wind gusts, and heavy rain to the region through this evening. It is expected to gradually weaken and move northeastward into the Gulf of Maine with the rain slowly tapering off by late Tuesday morning. Coastal flood warnings were cancelled for southeastern New York, northeastern New Jersey, and the Massachusetts, including Cape Cod. However,…

The European Central Bank’s top climate official says a pattern is emerging whereby the cumulative impact of extreme weather shocks is morphing into its own risk category. There is a “chronic impact that is slowly surfacing,” Irene Heemskerk, head of the Climate Change Centre at the ECB, said in an interview. “It can lead to second-round effects and value chain disruptions or even hitting the productivity of people.” It’s a similar warning to one recently offered by an executive at BlackRock Inc., as so-called chronic climate risk draws increasing attention. The phenomenon describes a world in which the financial and…

Insurance Journal’s Risky Future series is hosting the “AI Tools for Digital Quoting” Demo Day, a series of free AI tool demonstrations designed exclusively for insurance carriers, retail agents, managing general agencies, agency principals, product leaders. This event will highlight modern quoting and comparative-rating platforms built for speed, connectivity, and scale across personal and commercial lines. Demos will focus on integrations with core systems, API flexibility, workflow automation, prefill data, error prevention, and embedded AI capabilities that improve close rates and ease of doing business. In partnership with Insurance Journal, Risky Future’s AI Tools for Digital Quoting Demo Day will…

Florida’s attorney general has filed suit against a high-profile roofing company with offices around the country, seeking penalties, refunds to homeowners, and a court order that would bar the firm from further deceptive actions. Evolve Construction & Restoration and six officers were named in the suit filed in Lee County, which alleges that the company knocked on doors after Hurricanes Ian and Milton, took some $1 million in insurance claim payouts from at least 80 people across the state, but never completed the work. “More than 60% of the consumers who complained to our office are seniors. The fraudsters should…

China and the United States have agreed to cut tariffs imposed on $60 billion worth of goods imported from each other, on an array of products ranging from US corn to cosmetics, and from Chinese household appliances to toys. Under the US-China Board of Trade, both countries have each recommended $30 billion of trade in non-sensitive goods for more favorable tariff treatment, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said in a statement on Sunday. For the United States, that was “unlocking improved market access” for about 30% of US exports to China, he said. The reciprocal tariff reduction as well as…