Beazley expands cyber cover for AI malfunctions and regulatory risks Insurance FTSE 100 insurance giant Beazley has launched a new cyber line for businesses that insures against unintentional regulatory non-compliance and financial and reputational losses as a result of AI system malfunctions. Speaking to City AM, the speciality insurer’s head of cyber risks, Alessandro Lezzi, said the move comes as the firm sees “AI changing the threat [...]
‘Absurd’: Government seeks quantum tech chief – no experience necessary Tech The government is recruiting a senior official to oversee billions of pounds of quantum investment despite saying candidates do not need any background in the technology. A job advert for a deputy head of the Office for Quantum published on Tuesday says the successful candidate could oversee the rollout of the UK’s national quantum programme, [...]
Quantum could be Britain’s next tech breakthrough Opinion Britain's next tech titan could be a quantum company. That’s not a sentence I'd have said five years ago, writes Carolyn Dawson.