In January, pornographic deepfake images of Taylor Swift were viewed by millions of people on X and other social media platforms before the sites took action. No one has been… Read More
Seattle tech veteran Joe Heitzeberg remembers seeing a random, AI-related tweet in September 2022. “Still not enough tinkering happening, for whatever reason,” former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman wrote at the… Read More
A few years ago, Microsoft researchers and data scientists used machine learning to help marine biologists analyze patterns in underwater recordings of beluga whales. Upon learning about the project, another… Read More
Google’s philanthropic arm is giving a $500,000 grant to expand access to robotics and artificial intelligence education programs across Washington state middle schools, the company announced Friday. In partnership with… Read More
Seattle’s AI2 Incubator launched a new online forum called Harmonious for discussing research papers and advances related to artificial intelligence, saying the aim was to cut through the glut of… Read More
As the managing director of the AI2 Incubator, where she plays an active role in investing in the next wave of AI-first companies, Yifan Zhang shares a nuanced view on… Read More
Seattle-based nonprofit TrueMedia.org released a free AI-powered media verification tool Tuesday to help journalists and fact-checkers detect deepfakes and combat misinformation ahead of upcoming U.S. and international elections. The non-partisan… Read More
The news: Seattle-based Soundry AI, a platform that uses generative artificial intelligence to help musicians create samples for songs, is part of the latest cohort at the startup accelerator Y… Read More
Microsoft unveiled what it described as its first AI-powered Surface PCs for businesses, the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6, with Intel Core Ultra processors and Neural Processing Units… Read More
Microsoft added some big names to its AI leadership Tuesday with the hiring of Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of DeepMind and a former Google vice president of artificial intelligence, to… Read More
Business software company Smartsheet surpassed $1 billion in annualized recurring revenue in the fourth quarter, within the timeframe established by the company during its first analyst day as a public… Read More
After being tapped by Sergey Brin to run special projects at Google, Varun Puri found himself at Google X playing de facto speech coach for many of his colleagues. Helping people… Read More
When Microsoft design chief Jon Friedman‘s son Judah needed help with a children’s book he wanted to write, Friedman went from Copilot to coauthor, of sorts. Friedman, a 20-year vet… Read More
Artificial intelligence is a powerful technology that promises to reshape the future, but it also poses many challenges and risks. One of the most pressing issues is the lack of… Read More
More than 100 researchers — including a Nobel laureate — have signed on to a call for the scientific community to follow a set of safety and security standards when… Read More
The Washington State Legislature passed a bipartisan proposal from Attorney General Bob Ferguson to create an Artificial Intelligence Task Force that will help lawmakers better understand the benefits and risks… Read More
A new report points to a crisis of trust in innovation, and the risk that rapid technological change — especially in the field of artificial intelligence — will fuel increased… Read More
Searching on Amazon for a trainer to convert my road bike into a stationary cycle, I knew the make and model of my bike, but had no clue about its… Read More
Kieran Snyder, the co-founder and former CEO of Seattle-based Textio, has launched her next project, less than two months after stepping back from the augmented writing startup. In an email… Read More
Microsoft outlined a series of principles for its development and deployment of artificial intelligence, including a pledge to partner with a “broad array” of companies and other players in the… Read More
After seeing promising results from early customer testing, GoDaddy is launching new artificial intelligence tools for small businesses that automate the process of finding domains, building websites, and creating social… Read More
Seattle startup Finpilot raised a $4 million investment round led by Madrona to help fuel its “ChatGPT for financial questions” software. The company’s aim is to help financial analysts speed… Read More
The days of talking into a mirror to psych yourself up to ask someone on a date have given way to artificial intelligence. Yoodli, the Seattle-based AI-enabled software platform that… Read More
Microsoft unveiled a Super Bowl ad for its Copilot artificial intelligence assistant — seizing a high-profile opportunity to gloss over AI’s pitfalls and risks by focusing on the technology’s potential… Read More
First up this week on the GeekWire Podcast: an inside look at developing software for the Apple Vision Pro spatial computing headset. We got a chance this week to talk… Read More
Amazon is integrating an AI assistant called Rufus into its mobile shopping app. The new generative AI feature, just announced, is based on a large language model trained on data… Read More
A new nonprofit, nonpartisan technology organization called TrueMedia is developing an AI-powered tool to detect deepfake videos, photos, and audio, aiming to combat political disinformation in the leadup to the… Read More
This post has been updated with Microsoft and OpenAI comments, and additional context from Microsoft engineer Shane Jones in response to their statements. A Microsoft AI engineering leader says he… Read More
A space-centric startup called Quindar says it has successfully closed an oversubscribed $6 million funding round that will give a boost to its cloud-hosted, AI-supported software platform for satellite management.… Read More
Nomad Go has pivoted from counting people to counting inventory. The Bellevue, Wash.-based startup raised $1.5 million to help power its new focus on using artificial intelligence to simplify and… Read More