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Travelers Builds In-House LLM to Cut Generative AI Costs

US insurer Travelers has built TravelersLLM, a proprietary model for underwriting and claims queries, while routing complex reasoning to external frontier AI models.

25 Aug 2026 · 2 min read

Thomson Reuters builds own AI model instead of renting GPT

Thomson Reuters spent roughly $40 million over two years building its own LLM,

25 Aug 2026 · 2 min read

Pew Study: AI-Written Text Surges Across Web Since ChatGPT

Pew Research finds over a third of web pages published since ChatGPT's 2022 launch show signs of AI-generated text, with commercial sites ten times more likely than .edu or .gov domains to use it.

25 Aug 2026 · 2 min read

General

Dubai cuts food testing time from 2 hours to 2 minutes with new automated technology

Dubai cuts oil and fat quality testing from two hours to two minutes using automated technology, increasing daily laboratory capacity by 900 per cent

25 Aug 2026 · 2 min read

Fintech

Fintechs see 86% AI productivity gain in tech, product teams

A new industry survey finds fintech technology and product teams report an 86% AI-driven productivity gain, while other functions like operations and compliance lag behind, per FinTech Global.

25 Aug 2026 · 2 min read

Alabama launches investigation into OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face

Weeks after OpenAI disclosed that one of its cybersecurity models had gone rogue and hacked AI dataset company Hugging Face, Alabama’s attorney general announced an investigation into the incident.

25 Aug 2026 · 2 min read

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