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Engineering News-Record's Bryan Gottlieb found carriers cutting water-damage deductibles in half for sites with leak sensors. The mechanism matters for video agents: underwriters have started pricing continuous monitoring, and video is a form of it.
A vision-language model is two encoders and a shared vector space. Feed it video and the hard part becomes time, and asking it to act takes a different model again. The papers, in order, from ImageNet to RT-2.
Carriers are starting to give credit for continuous monitoring on construction sites, in fleets and in workers' comp. None of them has yet written a rate for a video agent, and more than 60 of them are filing to exclude AI from liability cover.
Whether the model runs in the building or in someone else's data center is now a procurement gate. In the sales calls it was raised by a meat plant, a clinic, a laundromat chain, an integrator in Nigeria and a telecom reading the EU AI Act.
Over ninety percent of security alerts are harmless. The case for spending human attention on the ten percent that are not, from the first edition of The Edge.
Spot AI stacked small detection models together until the stack ran out of judgement. A large multimodal model closed the gap, and the agent category came out of the seam between the two.
Insurance Business's Chris Davis reports on how the carrier uses telematics, sensors, wearables and camera AI to prevent losses before they become claims, and why its risk engineers see productivity gains alongside safety.
Text sits still. The physical world moves, and it punishes slow answers. Four requirements that make video agents a different engineering problem from chatbots.
Interviewed at RISKWORLD 2026 by Risk & Insurance, Matt Scott described AI watching workplace video for hot spots, reckless forklifts and badly packed pallets. Discounts, for now, are for camera-equipped fleet telematics.
Most of what customers want to detect has no off-the-shelf model. Our first granted patent covers the workaround: put frames and sentences in the same vector space and treat a description as a trigger.
Read in order, Spot AI's customer mailers from 2021 to July 2026 show a product that shipped search first, analytics second, an assistant third and agents last. The page where people look at cameras got rebuilt the whole way through.
The YMCA of Greater Richmond rolled cameras across its branches faster than most organisations finish a pilot. The reason it stuck was Active Directory.