For the first time, insurers in London’s Lloyd’s market are offering dedicated policies that cover damages caused by errors from AI chatbots. The product was developed by Armilla, a Y Combinator-backed startup, and is designed to protect companies if they get sued over faulty AI performance—such as when customers are harmed by incorrect answers or so-called "hallucinations" from a chatbot. The coverage includes legal fees and compensation payments. A recent example comes from Air Canada, where a chatbot promised a nonexistent discount that the airline later had to honor. According to Armilla, the new policy would have applied in such a case if the bot’s performance fell significantly below expectations. Karthik Ramakrishnan, Armilla’s CEO, says the goal is to make it easier for businesses to adopt AI. Traditional tech insurance often offers only limited coverage for AI-related risks, but Armilla’s policy specifically insures against performance drops in AI models.
Reasoning tasks sharply raise AI costs, according to a new analysis by Artificial Analysis. Google's Gemini Flash 2.5 costs 150 times more to run than Flash 2.0, due to using 17 times more tokens and charging $3.50 per million output tokens with reasoning, compared to $0.40 for the earlier model. This makes Flash 2.5 the most expensive model in terms of token use for logic. OpenAI's o4-mini costs more per token but used fewer tokens overall, making it cheaper in the benchmark.
Google's Gemini Flash 2.5 costs 150 times more to run with reasoning enabled than Flash 2.0, due to higher token use and pricing. | Image: Artificial Analysis
Google is now using AI models to protect Chrome users from online scams. On desktop, the company has rolled out its local Gemini Nano language model to quickly spot fraudulent websites, including ones that have never been seen before. On Android, Chrome will now warn users about suspicious notifications sent by websites. Google says these changes are part of a broader effort to improve security, which also includes the "Enhanced Protection" feature in Safe Browsing. The company reports that AI-powered systems in Google Search block hundreds of millions of scam results every day, cutting the number of fake airline support pages by more than 80 percent.