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Aon Insights Series to address risk & resilience in Auckland

Mon, 25th Aug 2025
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Aon will host its first Insights Series in Auckland, focusing on risk and resilience with leaders addressing complex challenges across industries in 2025.
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Aon highlights global megatrends shaping business risks in 2025

Wed, 4th Jun 2025
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Aon's Client Trends 2025 report reveals four megatrends—Trade, Technology, Weather, and Workforce—shaping business risks and opportunities globally.
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Australia boosts weather forecasting with AI technology partnership

Tue, 14th May 2024
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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.
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Salient Predictions unveils upgraded model for weather risk management

Thu, 21st Mar 2024
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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.
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Climate researchers triumph in inaugural ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling

Mon, 20th Nov 2023
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A global team of climate scientists scoops the first ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling at the SC23 conference.
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Huawei's Pangu-Weather AI model is now free for public

Fri, 4th Aug 2023
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Huawei's Pangu-Weather AI model, which can predict weather events in seconds, is released to the public for free.
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3 ways AI is scaling helpful technologies worldwide: Google

Wed, 9th Nov 2022
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Decades of research have led to rapid progress in AI. Google has announced three new ways people are poised to benefit.
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Rise of the AI weatherman: AccuWeather and Facebook create the 'perfect' weather-bot

Wed, 19th Jul 2017
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AccuWeather partners with Facebook to launch an AI chatbot on Messenger, promising hyper-local, precise forecasts.
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Advertising about to get a whole lot more targeted with new partnership

Mon, 15th May 2017
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​Swirl Networks and AccuWeather have partnered to bring advanced, real-time weather targeting capabilities to indoor mobile location marketing.
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Weather forecasts meet virtual reality with launch of AccuWeather app

Thu, 23rd Mar 2017
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Step into the storm with AccuWeather's new VR app, offering immersive 360-degree weather experiences in collaboration with Samsung.
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Spotify: Tunes with a side of weather

Wed, 8th Feb 2017
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Spotify's Climatune uses AccuWeather data, creating playlists reflecting your city's mood from rain's lullabies to sunshine bops.
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Eye of the storm with AccuWeather's 360 video

Mon, 15th Aug 2016
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AccuWeather's 360-degree weather videos have led to a 400% increase in average monthly views across platforms.
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Braving the elements for Pokémon Go

Mon, 18th Jul 2016
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UK Pokémon fans undeterred by weather, embracing rain or shine in quest to 'catch 'em all' as game's popularity soars.
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AccuWeather brings sunshine to Apple TV

Tue, 17th May 2016
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AccuWeather is now available on Apple TV, and the company hopes to make weather forecasts more accessible and more accurate for consumers.
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Geothermal exit, dry weather wallop Mighty River earnings

Tue, 24th Feb 2015
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Electricity generator and retailer Mighty River Power declared a massive drop in earnings for the six months to Dec.
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NZ food prices rise 1.3% in January, on spike in apples, kiwifruit, vegetables

Fri, 13th Feb 2015
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New Zealand food prices rose in January, as a smaller, later apple crop drove prices for the fruit to the highest in 16 years, while kiwifruit, str.
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NZ tractor sales set to match records this year on buoyant farming

Tue, 18th Nov 2014
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New Zealand tractor sales are expected to match record highs for the modern farming era this year, as farming incomes are boosted by high milk pric.
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How to talk about the weather

Tue, 1st Mar 2011
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British locals find a more sophisticated way to engage in small talk, avoiding the predictable weather discussion. Find out how 👇.