Author: Staff Writer

South African insurtech Naked Insurance just did something that sounds small, but might actually be one of the more significant tech moves to come out of this country in a while. They’ve built what they’re calling the world’s first ChatGPT-native insurance app that spits out a real, binding car insurance quote — inside ChatGPT itself. This is not a “leave your number and we’ll call you.” It’s sn actual quote, hooked up to a live underwriting engine. That difference matters more than it sounds. For years, “AI in insurance” was basically fancy autocomplete on a call centre script, or a…

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The internet’s original “assistant” just got shown the door, and this time it’s for good. After 25 years of trying to answer our questions, Ask.com, better known as Ask Jeeves, is officially done. Let’s be honest, it’s been fading for a while. Before Google took over search and turned itself into a reflex, Jeeves had a genuinely different idea. You asked a question like a normal person and it tried to answer you. No keyword hacking, no gaming the system, just ask and hope for something useful. It was a smart idea, just not built for what the internet became. Because what followed…

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In a series of unusually direct conversations, US officials have begun warning some of the country’s largest banks about a new kind of threat. Not a coordinated cyberattack. Not a foreign adversary. An artificial intelligence model. At the center of those discussions is Anthropic, whose latest system has raised concerns among regulators for its ability to identify and potentially exploit software vulnerabilities at a scale and speed that far exceeds traditional methods. A Closed-Door Conversation With High Stakes Senior figures including Scott Bessent and Jerome Powell recently met with bank executives to outline the risks. The message was not alarmist, but it was clear. This…

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