May 21, 2026

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Weathering NOAA’s ‘Below Normal Atlantic Hurricane Season’ And A Super El Niño

What a super El Niño on one hand and a below-normal Atlantic hurricane season on the other mean for the insurance industry is a matter of perspective: the two climate phenomena are interrelated, fewer hurricanes in one area could be …

Meta Settles School Suit Over Social Media, Averting First Trial

Meta Platforms Inc. reached an agreement to settle a landmark lawsuit alleging that addiction to Instagram and other top social media platforms upended learning across America and pushed U.S. public schools to spend enormous resources fighting a mental health crisis, …

Spotify Strikes Deal With Universal Music to Let Premium Users Create AI Covers, Remixes

Spotify has struck a deal with Universal Music Group to let subscribers create AI-generated covers and remixes of songs, marking the first time the audio-streaming giant will allow users to produce AI content using its platform. Shares of the company …

Trump Set to Sign AI Cybersecurity Directive as Soon as Thursday

President Donald Trump is poised to issue an executive order as soon as Thursday aimed at bolstering artificial intelligence cybersecurity and has asked tech industry leaders to join for the event, according to people familiar with the matter. The order …

Stellantis, Wayve Target 2028 Driver-Assist Launch

Stellantis and British autonomous driving startup Wayve said on Thursday they had formed a strategic partnership to bring Wayve’s artificial intelligence driving software into the carmaker’s STLA AutoDrive platform for future hands-free assisted driving. The companies said in a joint …

NTSB Says UPS Didn’t Act After 2011 Boeing Letter on Defect

A U.S. safety investigator said United Parcel Service Inc. decided not to take action after 2008 and 2011 service letters from Boeing Co. flagged cracking in a key structural component in the type of plane that crashed in Louisville, Kentucky, …

Groups Seek FTC Probe onto Roblox for Kid Spending

The National Center on Sexual Exploitation and Fairplay, two advocacy groups focused on child safety, are asking the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate Roblox Corp.’s game mechanics, which they claim coerce kids into spending unreasonable amounts of money on …

Verisk, insured.io, Omni and TruVideo Rolling out New Tech

“Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Know who said that? Anyone? Anyone? Technology and artificial intelligence are coming at claims and insurance professionals at an increasingly rapid pace. …

Stellantis Plans $17,500 Small EV to Revive European Market

Stellantis plans to launch a new small, low-cost category of fully electric vehicles in an effort to revive Europe’s shrinking entry-level car segment and ailing manufacturing sector. The Fiat, Opel and Citroen owner said production of the affordable, compact and …