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Stock photo provider Getty Images has sued artificial intelligence company Stability AI Inc, accusing it in a lawsuit made public on Monday of misusing more than 12 million Getty photos to train its Stable Diffusion AI image-generation system. The lawsuit, …

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Republican lawmakers said it’s time to beef up security in Maine schools, either with armed security officers or by allowing teachers to be armed. A bill sponsored by Rep. Steven Foster, R-Dexter, would allow a school …

The family of an inmate who died in a northern Virginia jail has reached a wrongful death settlement with the county sheriff and the jail’s former health care provider. Darryl Becton died at the Arlington County jail at the age …

Root Inc., the parent company of Root Insurance, has followed up its investigation into almost $10 million of unauthorized payments with a lawsuit against its former chief marketing officer. According to the suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the …

Mulready Announces Key Staff Changes for PBM Compliance Program Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready has made two new appointments to the Oklahoma Insurance Department (OID). Ashley Scott is the new director of the OID Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) Compliance and …

Michigan-based independent insurance agency Highstreet Insurance Partners reports it has acquired two Pennsylvania insurance agencies: Lock Haven-based Davis Insurance Agency and Bensalem-based Michael Pigott Agency. Both firms will join Highstreet’s Northeast Region and will report to James Hutchinson, chief marketing …

Following a year of turbulence in its auto insurance business, Allstate Corp. outlined what CEO Tom Wilson called the company’s number one priority: improve margins. Allstate ended 2022 with an unprofitable 110.1 combined ratio in auto – 112.6 for the …

MKS Instruments Inc. said on Monday it was investigating a ransomware attack that occurred last week and affected the semiconductor equipment maker’s production-related systems. The company said it was in the early stages of investigating the attack that it identified …

Current and former U.S. military members suing 3M over allegedly defective military earplugs have asked a U.S. judge to dismiss 3M subsidiary Aearo Technologies‘ bankruptcy, accusing the company of using bankruptcy to shield itself from litigation, which has grown into …

CHICAGO (AP) – The family of a suburban Chicago boy who was 12 when an officer shot him in the knee during a 2019 police raid will receive $12 million under a settlement of the family’s lawsuit. The settlement, which …