Bridge Specialty Group has started a personal lines digital marketplace built on insurance technology provider Cogitate’s DigitalEdge platform.
The digital platform is designed to streamline agent quoting, enhance underwriting efficiency, and support scalable expansion of carrier access. As one of the largest personal lines wholesalers in the U.S., Bridge Specialty Group is uniquely positioned to scale carrier access and simplify distribution for agents nationwide.
The new platform enables agents to complete one common application and receive eligibility and premium indications across participating carriers within a unified digital experience.
On DigitalEdge, the marketplace supports API-enabled carrier integrations and structured workflows for markets without direct APIs. This allows agents to see multiple carrier options side-by-side, and gain faster visibility into available markets. Underwriters benefit from structured workflows and improved submission quality.
Among its early carriers, Bridge Specialty worked with insurer Markel to make its excess & surplus homeowners product available in the marketplace.
At launch, the marketplace supports more than 18,000 users across 5,000 agencies, providing immediate scale across Bridge Specialty Group’s distribution network.
Anthropic announced an initiative with major technology companies, including Amazon.com, Microsoft and Apple, that lets partners preview an advanced model with cybersecurity capabilities developed by the AI startup.
Under its “Project Glasswing,” select organizations will be allowed to use the startup’s unreleased and general-purpose AI model, “Claude Mythos Preview,” for defensive cybersecurity work, Anthropic said. Other partners include CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Google and Nvidia.
The April 7 announcement follows a Fortune report last month that Anthropic was testing Claude Mythos, which it said posed security risks and also offered advanced capabilities, dragging shares of cybersecurity firms such as Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike sharply lower.
This year’s RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco was also dominated by talk about the rise of AI-powered cyberattacks and whether conventional security tools sufficed.
In a blog post on Tuesday, Anthropic said Mythos Preview had found “thousands” of major vulnerabilities in operating systems, web browsers and other software.
The startup said launch partners will use Mythos Preview in their defensive security work, and Anthropic will share findings with industry.