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California Braces for Floods as Atmospheric River Threatens
California is bracing for flooding as a so-called atmospheric river delivers a glancing blow to the south of the state, before moving across northern Mexico into the U.S. Southwest this weekend. Coastal flood warnings and advisories are up through Friday …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 3:30 PM |
Florida Property-Tax Ballot Measure Threatens to Defund the Police
Before the sun rose on Oct. 5, a school bus carrying students to Winter Haven High School in Central Florida was clipped by an oncoming car. The impact sent the bus into oncoming traffic, where it collided head-on with another …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 3:30 PM |
Florida Men Charged With Creating Sham Insurance Now Face Federal Indictment
Four months after two Florida men were charged with operating a sham insurance company and a month after regulators ordered them to cease operations, the two have been indicted on federal fraud and money laundering charges. A federal grand jury …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 3:15 PM |
Markets & Coverages: Aon and SAGE to Use AI to More Precisely Price Crop Insurance
Insurance broker Aon and SAGE, an agricultural risk intelligence company, are launching a crop insurance program in the U.S. they say will assess agricultural risk more accurately and help price insurance more effectively. The program uses artificial intelligence to combine …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 2:20 PM |
Who Was to Blame for Hong Kong’s Deadly 2025 Fire?
An independent Hong Kong committee blamed a renovation contractor and consultant as well as four government departments for a deadly blaze that killed 168 people in the city last November, according to its report released to the public on Thursday. …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 2:12 PM |
Canada’s Biggest Banks Move to Limit AI Agents, Citing Risk
Some of Canada’s biggest banks are moving to restrict third-party artificial intelligence agents such as Meta Platform Inc.’s Muse from accessing their banking systems, citing security and liability risks. Royal Bank of Canada, the country’s largest lender, sent a message …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 1:55 PM |
Chinese AI Model Carries Out Complex Cyberattacks in Controlled Tests: Researchers
Chinese firm Z.AI’s flagship AI model carried out complex cyberattacks in controlled simulations and repeatedly ignored instructions in separate tests, according to a report by AI security research firm Irregular. The GLM-5.3 model successfully completed 3 of 13 multi-stage cyberattack …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 1:19 PM |
Aurora’s Driverless Trucks on Pace for 2027 Expansion Target
Self-driving trucking company Aurora Innovation Inc. expects to fall short of its production target for this year but said it’s on track to recover for 2027. Aurora said supplier issues caused constraints and the company won’t meet its goal of …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 12:34 PM |
Finland Launches Criminal Probe of Environmental Damage at Google Data Center Site
Finnish police said on Thursday they have launched a criminal investigation into suspected breaches of environmental law at the construction site of a planned Google data center in northern Finland. The project is part of a plan announced last month …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 12:02 PM |
Barclays Turns to Insurers to Hedge Billions of Data Center Debt
Barclays Plc is looking to buy default protection on more than $10 billion of debt to finance artificial intelligence infrastructure in a bid to create capacity for more lending as hyperscaler funding needs soar. The London-based lender has been assessing …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 11:39 AM |
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