2026-07-28
Friendsurance invented peer-to-peer insurance. It just sold for its paperwork.
Cover Genius has acquired Friendsurance, the Berlin company that invented peer-to-peer insurance. The deal took effect immediately, and neither side disclosed a price. Friendsurance built its name on a simple idea. Small groups of policyholders pool together, and everyone who stays claim-free collects cash back at the end of the year. Its own German language […]<br /> This story continues [...]
2026-07-28
Coforge says AI is expanding its margins. Its rivals call it ‘AI deflation’
Coforge reported first quarter revenue of $592.2m on Monday. That is a rise of 33% in dollar terms over the year, and 21.1% on the previous quarter. In rupees the annual increase reads 49%. Profit after tax reached $55.6m. Those numbers land in an industry bracing to shrink. HCL Technologies has warned of “AI deflation”. […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-28
GM redesigned its engineering workflows around AI agents — and tripled its merged pull requests
Software engineers at General Motors' (GM's) autonomous driving division spend only 15% of their time writing code, according to Rashed Haq, GM's VP of autonomous vehicles, in a recent onstage interview at VB Transform 2026.GM is now using AI agents to accelerate much of the other 85%—including analyzing vehicle data, triaging problems, running experiments and testing potential fi [...]
2026-07-28
Runway couldn't fix a bug in its AI video model, so it turned the bug into a feature
Runway spent weeks trying to engineer its way out of a stubborn bug: AI-generated avatars would drift off-center during real-time video generation. The fix wasn't a back-end patch — it was a new front-end feature that just worked around the problem. That's the kind of lesson Ryan Phillips, head of enterprise product at Runway ML, walked through at VB Transform 2026, arguing that even c [...]
