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Deploys its insurance analytics within Anthropic’s Claude AI models.

Announces the AI underwriting platform is available for carriers and MGAs through Microsoft Marketplace, streamlining procurement and integration for companies with existing Microsoft Azure commitments.

Deploys U.S. and U.K. iterations of a ChatGPT app for small business insurance. For the United States, small business owners can provide the business or trade type, annual revenue, and ZIP code via the app to get coverage price estimates though the Simply Business system.

Now offering Resilience Arc, a cyber risk management platform for multinational businesses, private equity firms, and other organizations that consolidate multiple enterprises. The system enables these organizations to standardize their risk management for all entities, automate risk analysis for each, and determine and rank risks, among other services.

Partnering with third-party administrator Sedgwick to combine their respective telematics and data analytics and claims management specialties, which they say will increase the efficiency of claims intake, liability analyses, fraud validation, and driver safety alerts. The collaboration will involve use of data from OCTO vehicle sensors, along with data from connected cars and fleet management systems.

Acquires the assets of cyber data and analytics specialist Cybeta. The firm, established in 2019 by former U.S. defense and intelligence personnel, will enhance Howden’s acumen on cyber risk to improve its underwriting, placement, and claims processes, the company said. Members of the Cybeta team will stay on at Howden.

Is applying the mea Platform’s artificial intelligence throughout its underwriting and claims activities. The AI deployment will establish a standard system for ingesting and classifying large amounts of incoming data, including broker submissions, midterm amendments, and first notice of loss documents.

Hires Eric Joost as president for its new U.S. operations. Joost comes to the digital broking and underwriting technology provider from the CAC Group, where he was chief operating officer. He has also worked at WTW, Aon, and Allianz in a nearly 40-year insurance career. >> Begins push into European market under newly hired Head of Europe Christopher Lohmann. After nearly two decades at Allianz, Lohmann will oversee the digital broking and underwriting technology company’s planned expansion into several markets, starting with Germany and Switzerland, then France and the Netherlands.

Prepares to roll out its Aon Digital Placement Exchange (Aon DPX) digital trading platform later in 2026. Aon will use the platform to place follow line business in the London market via structured data and algorithmic trading. The company plans to roll out the system for U.S. property risks sometime after June this year, featuring over 12 top insurers at time of launch.

Rolls out FleetLytics fleet analytics software. The system offers a consolidated dashboard for safety, compliance, telematics, and claims data from fleet operations in real time.