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Australia has ordered four artificial-intelligence chatbot companies to explain their measures to protect children from exposure to sexual or self-harm material, as its internet regulator beefs up safety measures on the AI front. The realistic conversational abilities of such services …

A hit-and-run driver slammed into an outdoor birthday party in suburban Washington, D.C., killing a woman and injuring eight kids on Saturday evening, police said. Thirteen people were hurt in the the crash in Bladensburg, Maryland, according to statements from …

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at insurtech BOXX Insurance and HDI Global. A summary of these new hires follows here. Zurich’s BOXX Insurance Names Key Appointments in Distribution, Underwriting, Claims BOXX Insurance, the Toronto-based cyber insurtech, announced …

Chinese internet giant Baidu Inc. and a Swiss Post subsidiary will start autonomous vehicle testing in Switzerland by the end of this year as they seek to launch the world’s first robotaxis without steering wheels to the public in 2027. …

Thieves who staged a daring daylight heist at the Louvre museum in Paris made off with jewels worth an estimated 88 million euros ($102.63 million), Paris public prosecutor Laure Beccuau said on Tuesday. “It is important to remember that this …

The UK plans to make it easier to fine water companies that harm the environment, ramping up pressure on firms blamed for chronic sewage spills. The government wants to allow the Environment Agency to impose “quicker penalties of up to …

The August hack of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), owned by India’s Tata Motors, cost the British economy 1.9 billion pounds ($2.55 billion) and affected over 5,000 organizations in the country, an independent cybersecurity body said in a report published on …

Novatae Risk Group, the wholesale business of leading insurance brokerage World Insurance Associates (World) headquartered in Dallas, hired Kimberly Jenkins as the firm’s chief operating officer. Jenkins has more than 25 years of leadership experience in client service operations. Most …

Be a Leader by Listening to Employees and Clients During the past 60 years, Milwaukee-based Robertson Ryan Insurance has grown from a small, local independent agency into a Top 100 firm employing some 150 agents and 385 associates. But employees …

Amazon.com Inc.’s reputation as a reliable provider of cloud services took a hit on Monday when an outage lasting some 15 hours disrupted the operations of hundreds of companies, ranging from Apple Inc. to McDonald’s Corp. to Epic Games Inc. …