Join OpenAI, Microsoft Autogen, Arize AI, MongoDB, Flipkart, Unstructured, and LlamaIndex for an evening focused on deploying LLM-based applications that can handle the demands of the real world. This event… 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
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
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: We peel back the layers of Microsoft’s hiring of AI pioneer Mustafa Suleyman and colleagues from Inflection AI, considering how it plays into the… 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
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
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Sen. Maria Cantwell met in Seattle on Friday with West Coast tech executives and leaders from national laboratories to strategize partnerships to more quickly… 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
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, in separate decisions issued in early February, denied OpenAI’s applications to trademark “ChatGPT” and “GPT.” OpenAI has the option to appeal the decisions to… 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
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
Washington this week became the fifth state to issue a roadmap to guide educators, students and families in using artificial intelligence in public schools. Rather than banning the use of… Read More
A Seattle-area nonprofit helping disadvantaged job seekers around the world is adding generative artificial intelligence to the toolkit for its participants. The Global Mentorship Initiative is teaching college students and… Read More
Researchers at Microsoft and the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) say they’ve discovered a way to reduce the lithium content in batteries by as much as 70%,… Read More
Bringing artificial intelligence to bear on issues relating to nuclear weapons might sound like the stuff of a scary sci-fi movie — but at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest… Read More
“The biggest surprise is that AI used to be narrow. … And when you went from one application to the other, you had to redo it all from scratch. What’s… Read More
The New York Times filed a lawsuit Wednesday against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the companies of copyright infringement for training artificial intelligence models on millions of articles published by the… Read More
If artificial intelligence is indeed coming for people’s jobs, this week would be a good time to start, to help out the busiest guy on the planet. Fixie, a Seattle-based… Read More
The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is shining a brighter spotlight on artificial intelligence by creating the Center for AI @PNNL, but don’t expect the lab’s researchers to… Read More
Just a few months after it looked like Seattle was being left out of the national conversation about artificial intelligence and the new tech economy, CNBC’s “Mad Money” host Jim… Read More
Microsoft announced a new agreement with the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest federation of unions, that seeks to address concerns about the impact of artificial intelligence on American workers as part… Read More
Is Microsoft moving too quickly to capitalize on artificial intelligence at the expense of long-term shareholder value? That was a key question at the company’s shareholder meeting Thursday morning. Krist… Read More
Read AI, a Seattle startup that applies artificial intelligence to online meetings, is expanding beyond its automated recaps of single meetings — using AI to summarize and glean insights from… Read More