With artificial intelligence becoming increasingly prominent, Kickstarter wants you to know if and how it's being used in any projects on the platform. The company will soon require creators to disclose any use of AI in their projects. The policy will apply to every project that's submitted on or after August 29th. "We want to make sure that any project that is funded through Kickstarter includes human creative input and properly credits and obtains permission for any artist's work that it references," Kickstarter's director of trust and safety Susannah Page-Katz wrote in a blog post. "The policy requires creators to be transparent and specific about how they use AI in their projects because when we're all on the same page about what a project entails, it builds trust and sets the project up for success."

Submittable, the leading application review and opportunity marketplace, announced a $10 million Series B funding led by Next Coast Ventures with continued participation by returning investors True Ventures, Next Frontier Capital and Flywheel Ventures. The financing will further accelerate the company's ongoing investment in artificial intelligence (AI)-powered matching, review technology and mobile apps connecting more opportunity-seekers with organizations of all sizes. "We haven't just built one of the cleanest and easy-to-use UI's out there, we've perfected the customizable review processes for hundreds of use-cases and are now building out a suite of AI-matching technologies that will help any organization find the right opportunity for them." Since launching in 2010 and graduating from Y Combinator's accelerator program, Submittable has provided over 10,000 organizations a platform for accepting, reviewing and ranking more than 20 million digital submissions and applications from over three million users. The "CRM for submissions" was launched by three creatives -- a writer, a filmmaker and a musician -- who wanted not just to simplify and improve the process of submitting their own work, but also wanted to create a marketplace to match the submissions with real opportunities across many industries including publishing, academia, philanthropy, contests and corporate giving.

Funding for insurtechs isn't slowing down, with $2.3 billion invested in 2017, a 36% increase from 2016, and, so far in 2018, insurtech funding transactions in Q2 have reached an all-time high, according to Willis Towers Watson. At the same time, the benefits that insurance companies stand to gain from insurtechs are growing. A recent Accenture report found that US insurers could collectively grow their profits by $20 billion with the implementation of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics – the focus of many insurtech solutions on the market right now. "When it first started with insurtechs, it was a lot of disruptors getting the funding, but now there's a ton of insurtech enablers that are coming out," said Linda Dodson, chief experience officer for AVYST, a technology solution provider aimed at independent insurance agents. "It's always hard for anybody to get into carriers, especially the new insurtechs coming on board, but you have carriers, like The Hartford, that have whole programs set up for insurtech start-ups."