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Aon Insights Series to address risk & resilience in Auckland

Aon will host its first Insights Series in Auckland, focusing on risk and resilience with leaders addressing complex challenges across industries in 2025.

By Melania Watson • 3 min read • Mon, 25th Aug 2025

Robotics

Rise of the AI weatherman: AccuWeather and Facebook create the 'perfect' weather-bot

AccuWeather partners with Facebook to launch an AI chatbot on Messenger, promising hyper-local, precise forecasts.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 2 min read • Wed, 19th Jul 2017

Gaming

Braving the elements for Pokémon Go

UK Pokémon fans undeterred by weather, embracing rain or shine in quest to 'catch 'em all' as game's popularity soars.

By Sam Worthington • 2 min read • Mon, 18th Jul 2016

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Human Capital Management

Aon highlights global megatrends shaping business risks in 2025

Aon's Client Trends 2025 report reveals four megatrends—Trade, Technology, Weather, and Workforce—shaping business risks and opportunities globally.

By Melvin Hipolito • 3 min read • Wed, 4th Jun 2025

Artificial Intelligence

Australia boosts weather forecasting with AI technology partnership

Aeeris, behind Australia's Early Warning Network, partners with global forecasting leader Tomorrow.io, marking a breakthrough in risk mitigation and weather predictions for Australia.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Tue, 14th May 2024

Agricultural Technology

Salient Predictions unveils upgraded model for weather risk management

Salient Predictions introduces an upgraded model aimed at transforming risk management in key sectors such as energy, agriculture, and insurance, offering advanced foresight for weather-related disasters.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Thu, 21st Mar 2024

Digital Transformation

Climate researchers triumph in inaugural ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling

A global team of climate scientists scoops the first ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling at the SC23 conference.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Mon, 20th Nov 2023

Artificial Intelligence

Huawei's Pangu-Weather AI model is now free for public

Huawei's Pangu-Weather AI model, which can predict weather events in seconds, is released to the public for free.

By Gaurav Sharma • 3 min read • Fri, 4th Aug 2023

Artificial Intelligence

3 ways AI is scaling helpful technologies worldwide: Google

Decades of research have led to rapid progress in AI. Google has announced three new ways people are poised to benefit.

By Gaurav Sharma • 3 min read • Wed, 9th Nov 2022

Marketing Technologies

Advertising about to get a whole lot more targeted with new partnership

Swirl Networks and AccuWeather have partnered to bring advanced, real-time weather targeting capabilities to indoor mobile location marketing.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Mon, 15th May 2017

Digital Entertainment

Weather forecasts meet virtual reality with launch of AccuWeather app

Step into the storm with AccuWeather's new VR app, offering immersive 360-degree weather experiences in collaboration with Samsung.

By Julia Gabel • 2 min read • Thu, 23rd Mar 2017

Digital Entertainment

Spotify: Tunes with a side of weather

Spotify's Climatune uses AccuWeather data, creating playlists reflecting your city's mood from rain's lullabies to sunshine bops.

By Shannon Williams • 2 min read • Wed, 8th Feb 2017

Digital Entertainment

Eye of the storm with AccuWeather's 360 video

AccuWeather's 360-degree weather videos have led to a 400% increase in average monthly views across platforms.

By Sam Worthington • 2 min read • Mon, 15th Aug 2016

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Power / Energy

Adaptive partners with Tokio Marine for US parametric outage cover

Adaptive Insurance and Tokio Marine HCC launch GridProtect, a parametric insurance covering short-term power outages across 18 US states for SMEs.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Thu, 26th Jun 2025

eCommerce

Zeller supports regional Aussie businesses with grants & film

Australian fintech Zeller is launching a regional initiative, offering AUD $10,000 in annual grants to support small businesses with tech and resources amid economic shifts.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Wed, 22nd May 2024

Artificial Intelligence

Huawei Cloud & Shenzhen Meteorological Bureau launch AI weather model

Huawei Cloud and the Meteorological Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality launch the pioneering Zhiji Regional Model, an AI-based tool yielding short-term weather forecasts with an unprecedented fine-scale resolution of 3 km, dwarfing the 25 km scope of conventional global models.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Tue, 26th Mar 2024

ASX

Aeeris reports steady Q2 earnings & continued risk assessment growth

Aeeris, a leading risk assessment company, demonstrated solid financials in Q2 FY24, highlighting a $2.25m cash reserve, no debt, and rising revenue from new and recurring sources, largely led by its Hail product suite.

By Sean Mitchell • 2 min read • Thu, 1st Feb 2024

Supply Chain

Artificial Intelligence: the catalyst for transformation in Australia's freight industry

AI-driven transformation is set to revolutionise Australia's freight industry, addressing challenges like driver shortages, underutilisation of capacity, and demand for real-time pricing and visibility.

By Cate Hull • 3 min read • Tue, 23rd Jan 2024