Stephen Owens
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Iranian national arrested in UK over RAF incident (opens the original)
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Earlier today British counterterrorism detectives took a 27-year-old man holding both British and Iranian citizenship into custody in London on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act, the latest twist in a strange and still-murky investigation into an alleged plan targeting RAF Fairford, the Gloucestershire airfield that has been a launch pad for American bombers flying missions against Iran. Nobody was hurt and nothing was damaged outside the base. For the insurance industry, though, the case m
AXA XL's new distribution chief will shape how it deals with Australian brokers – from Cologne (opens the original)
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Australian brokers who place business with AXA XL have a new name to learn, though he won't be working from Sydney. From 1 October, Dr Thomas Götting is chief client and distribution officer for AXA XL's APAC and Europe business unit. He will set client and distribution strategy across Europe, Asia and Australia, working with the local client and distribution teams in each market. He will be based in Cologne, where he has led the German distribution operation for the past several years. He has t
New warning as long October heat wave tests California's fire defenses and its insurance market (opens the original)
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Southern California is heading into a stretch of heat that forecasters say is unusual even for October. It arrives just over two weeks before the state's insurer of last resort raises its rates by almost 30%. The National Weather Service's Los Angeles office has issued an extreme heat watch for the coast and valleys of Los Angeles and Ventura counties. It runs from Friday morning through Thursday, Oct. 8, with highs of up to 90F at the coast and 105F in the valleys. Forecasters expect the heat t
Trump says AI firms will self-police, so employers should too (opens the original)
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Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and other AI vendors pledged self-regulation, but the pact names no auditors and isn’t legally binding Main pic from: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Leaders of six major AI developers signed a voluntary AI accord with President Donald Trump on Tuesday pledging internal controls and outside audits of their models. The pact isn’t legally binding, which leaves employers that use these companies’ tools to answer for their own oversight. Trump announce
Tokio Marine takeover talk returns as bankers reportedly ready for a Suncorp bid (opens the original)
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The Suncorp takeover saga may not have gone quiet after all. Four weeks after Insurance Business reported that Tokio Marine was closing in on an Australian acquisition target, the Japanese insurer is back in the headlines. According to weekend reporting in The Australian's DataRoom column, deal advisers are getting ready for the possibility of a formal offer for Suncorp, which is worth about $20 billion on the ASX. The column's source believes Tokio Marine has looked through the local sector and
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